We often find at Eastburn Country Furniture that some of the smaller curios we sell get lost amongst the larger pieces of furniture, and as it’s getting to that time of year when everyones looking for unusual gifts we thought we’d showcase our favourites.

This hand carved fruit bowl displays seasonal fruit and works well on tables with assorted hand made breads. Our old mixing bowls have all the vintage charm for mixing christmas cakes, and the old rolling pins work well for rolling out christmas cake icing.

We stock so many more unusual gifts that will add bags of vintage charm to any home or Christmas table.

Old Wooden Bowls

Old Antique Mixing Bowls

Cut Flower Trug

Old Wooden Bowls

Old Rolling Pins

Old Pot Jelly Moulds

Old Wooden Bread Bowl

We recently acquired these beautiful old doors, some are over 200 years old, they have come from an old house that is being renovated. In the process of the renovation the council planners have insisted that the doors were removed and replaced with fire doors, it’s really unfortunate that the old building can’t keep it’s originality because of regulations.

Old Wooden Antique Doors

Old Wooden Antique Doors

Old Wooden Antique Doors

We think we’ve gone the extra mile with our furniture this week, around 3,000 to be exact. Loads of our furniture has been packed up and shipped off to one of customers in America, we thought we’d share the picture we took of the container being loaded onto the lorry just before it left for the ferry, it was a massive effort getting everything ready and packed but we made it. With such an amount going at once it’s left lots of space for us to put some new pieces into the showroom.

Shipping items to America

New Wooden Dresser

New items arriving in the showroom

‘Chair Mountain’ resides in Colorado at 12,721 feet, and although our Yorkshire version doesn’t quite go to that altitude, we think our ‘mountain of chairs’ is a good rival.

Our customers are always astonished when they come across our mountain in the mill, we have so many styles and ages of chairs it’s almost a catalogue of a bygone era.

We are putting all our chairs on the website, although as fast as we put them on they sell so it’s best to visit us or call for recent stock.

Chairs Mountain

Old wooden chair

Painted 1950s chairs

Painted Wooden Chairs

We recently visited Delicious Deli Cafe which is run by Sharon and Maxine. We made a bespoke kitchen for Maxine a few years ago, and when she decided to start a deli in Gisburn, she very kindly called on our services again to help kit the shop out to give it a warm homely feel that would make it the hub of the community which it has dutifully become.

The lovely old building use to be the Post Office, which was always well used by the local community, this relationship has been renewed in Sharon and Maxine’s deli, the locals all regularly use the cafe and feel it’s not just a meeting place but a centre of the community.

Maxine working behind the reclaimed deli counter that we supplied, the hand made wooden counter gives a vintage appeal to the shop

Behind the counter the lovely old unit is a sturdy place for the coffee machine, the painted reclaimed shelves also give a vintage appeal

Wooden reclaimed bench from Eastburn Furniture

We supplied this lovely rustic old bookcase which customers use as a mini library

The reclaimed wooden counter we supplied was an original antique, the front is open for displaying goods and the area at the back of the counter also has storage

Maxine uses lots of local producers for her supplies

Wooden racking supplied by Eastburn Country Furniture

We’ve added some more photos below of another project we’ve just completed, this dresser has added extra storage to the kitchen without the need for bulky wall cabinets which would date the look, the dresser gives a stylish edge that will last.

Handmade dresser

handmade kitchen

Eastburn Kitchen

We thought we’d share our latest kitchen creation with you, this lovely light kitchen has been fitted with solid wood units and a beautiful solid oak worktop.

We’ve created this open wall cabinet with natural wood backboards, we think it gives the kitchen a more informal sense of styling. The old wood island also gives the kitchen more personality and warmth.

The kitchen was painted Joa’s white and given a light distressing.

The kitchen island is made from reclaimed timber, it gives a good contrast against the joa’s white painted units.

Handmade kitchen painted joa's white

Traditional cup handles

We created this distressed feel by using reclaimed timber on the units, we added beading around the doors to add to the reclaimed feel.

The units were hand painted to keep the style rustic.

We finished the units off with gunmetal ball and cup handles, the heavy industrial quality matches the style well and gives an interesting vintage edge.

We wanted to share one of our most recent bespoke kitchens with you, Shelagh designed the whole room from the floor to the ceiling for our customer and we think the results speak for themselves.

Bespoke kitchen

Eastburn fitted cupboard

We also thought we’d show you a sneeky peek at Simon’s handy work.

Kitchen Drawing

Eastburn Country Furniture Showroom

Our back showroom at Eastburn is looking really good at the moment, we have a mass of very individual pieces some very old and rustic and some very new.

Our storage baskets and old apple boxes are great for going under kitchen islands, they conveniently get rid of all the clutter that were all guilty of accumulating.

Trugs are also a great handy kitchen item, we use them for storing everything from soap to dried lavender, they’re even good for presenting bread and olives when your eating alfresco.

Lavender trugs

Staying on the alfresco theme we thought this lovely old centre island wouldn’t be out of place in a rustic french farmhouse, you can just imagine preparing your garlic ready for the ”soupe de poisson” whilst the sun beats down on the patio.

Wooden Kitchen Island

We all love these vintage indian chapati rollers and rolling boards that have made an appearance in the mill this week, the colours are great and the chapati boards are really heavy with a beautiful patina to them, we think they look good sat on these vintage chopping boards.

Chapati rollers

Chapati board

We’ve recently acquired these lovely tin coffee pots, you can imagine sitting on a barge sipping strong black coffee whilst watching the sun setting.

Old tin coffee pots

We also love these cow bells, although a little unusual we think they work well in a kitchen, they are completely unique great if you prefer something different from the norm! You wont find these in John Lewis!

Old wooden cow bells

Old dough riser cabinet

Reclaimed wood table

We love this rustic table and benches, they have just the right look, they look equally good in an old farmhouse or a sleek mill conversion, the benches also sell well for hallways and boot rooms, the robust nature of the old wood makes the look timeless.

Reclaimed wood bench