Kitchens
Alright, it is early days in our kitchen making and mostly all I have to show are grandiose schemes. Above is the brand new design for free-standing units; the prototype can be inspected at the Clydeside Antiques warehouse. Meanwhile, we've still not had the opportunity to photograph of our first oak Arts & Crafts kitchen, now several years old. 
In that instance, all the kitchen units, furniture and worksurfaces were handmade, making the project time consuming and expensive. So
much so, that we were thinking of restricting our orders to one kitchen a year. However, the new free-standing kitchen has been devised to be less expensive (but still gorgeous) built around factory-made units. 
The kitchen photographed further up and here to the right happens to be my own and an example of making do. The existing units were kept, while new doors and work surfaces were added. I am most pleased with the draining board (see the top of the page). Every timber kitchen work surface I have seen has a series of grooves cut into the wood to help the water drain into the sink. 
But there is no or little slope to the wood which constitutes this "draining board". The result is poor drainage and grooves that turn black with mould and dirt. Our own design was complicated to make. And an error caused two small areas of damage. However, these were repaired and the repair hidden by a painted jellyfish and a gorgeously painted fish: a fortuitous accident and one that we are keen to repeat.
This room divider was designed to screen a dining area. This is where the true high-handedness of Arts and Crafts design can be seen: fitted furniture and architectural joinery that literally imprisons the customer. There is a story that Charles Rennie Mackintosh was displeased with Mrs Blackie's choice of flowers for her hall table at Hill House in Helensburgh. At Samson's Joinery we are nowhere nearly so tyrannical, although I am compelled to forbid azaleas.
Here are some more designs. The dressers here are slightly more traditional fin de siècle than the new designs above. Here, too, are two photographs of a Gothic kitchen we recently fitted. The fine carved doors were reclaimed from a church. But the cover to hide the boiler was completely built by us.
Finally, one of our prototype sink units, pictured below, was destroyed in the Antiques Warehouse fire. 