Every job, ARCHIVED.

Thirteen projects in 3 countries, and the process behind every one of them, from first visit to the photographs we keep once the work is done.

The work ITSELF.

Every job has its own folder, with all its photographs: Northstead's work in London, and the work its founders built before it, in Ireland and in Nicaragua.

13 projects · 86 photographs

Photographs from completed and in-progress jobs. Further references available on request.

Rustic by PREFERENCE.

Good finishes, austere materials and a lot of fine carpentry, built and dry-assembled in the workshop before it reaches a site.

Large oak counter mid-build in the workshop, with carved scroll corbels.
Black painted panelled counter with carved corbels, standing in the workshop.
Long timber servery laid out on a large fit-out floor.

Four stages, no SURPRISES.

Each stage closes with something real: a priced job, a signed programme, or the photographs we keep once the work is done.

  1. I

    First contact

    Location matters, so that is where we start: we do not take on work everywhere. Then your timeframe, and a measured survey of the site.

  2. II

    Design and price

    A design is drawn, then priced. What moves the figure: whether drawings and permissions already exist, the season and the standard of finish.

  3. III

    Plan and build

    Permits, programme and the right hands booked before anyone starts on site. Then the build itself, to that plan.

  4. IV

    Archive and handover

    Every finished job is photographed and filed: what was done, and how. Then handover.

Want to see something closer to your project?

Tell us the scope and we will send the two or three schemes most like it, with references you can call.