About
Highwood Furniture produces beautiful yet functional pieces of furniture, built with care and precision in order to match your lifestyle, character and needs. Tailored for you and created with locally sourced sustainable woods like Scottish Oak, Ash, Sycamore and the beautiful but unfortunately diminishing Elm.
Highwood Furniture is dedicated to producing high quality, life long pieces using these amazing natural materials. The pursuit for this comes from the founder Colin Bate and his love for the outdoors, natures beauty, his enjoyment in being creative and his eye for precision. Colin trained at and graduated from the renowned Chippendale International School of Furniture and is a member of the Fine Furniture Guild. Frequently getting lost in his work for hours, Colin's objective with every piece is to make something that customers will love as much as he loved making. Working alongside Hannah since 2021, they now bring different insights into each joint project and individual item and enjoy exploring new design ideas and techniques.
Sustainability
Highwood Furniture seeks to source timber as locally as possible, and holds sustainability as a core value. We secure our timber for projects from sawmills who source timber in Scotland, and also look to build links with local tree surgeons. We have even been known to sell pieces made from branches from our own garden.
We make the most of each piece of timber that comes through our workshop, with any larger excess not suitable for a creative project becoming a useful heat source, and smaller wood chippings being composted.