The WoodCraft Project

27/08/2026

I`m just resharing this post as it really caught my eye today and is worthy of a look on a proper screen to really appreciate it.

Just to say that this is an absolutely gorgeous building.

We built this building in Bromyard Herefordshire back a few years ago using sweet chestnut in the round, just peeled, no other processing.

Pegged mortice and tenon construction. We felled all of the timber here from a local woodlands ourselves.

This is what we are capable of here at The Woodcraft Project.

So if you want or know someone who wants an incredible, sustainable, beautiful space to be, give me a shout and see what we can build for you.

If you like this building, why not just share it with others.

Dominic Brady
The Woodcraft Project
01452 905679

“𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀. 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺.”

27/08/2026

“We are so enjoying the cabin – I wondered if you’d like to see some pics of how it looks now with plants round it etc (sort of bedded in)?”

At some point, cabins got renamed “garden rooms”. We even started using the term on our website so that people find us.

And somewhere along the way, they became small, square, feature‑poor, craft‑lazy prefabricated boxes — built for budget over beauty, function over feeling.

This cabin is the opposite of that.

Five years on, it sits exactly where it belongs: nestled into the garden, wrapped in it's surroundings, looking like it grew out of the soil it stands on.

A cabin should be an escape from the everyday — a place where inspiration comes easier, where the rules soften, where you can breathe a little deeper. A place to be yourself. A place that makes your heart sing.

So why not make your next “garden room” a cabin instead — a place of worship to your own personality, a handcrafted expression of who you are. We can build that. We can work with your ideas, your creativity, your way of living.

This one was designed as a collaboration between the client and myself one winter while I was touring Andalusia in my van.

Sketches went back and forth — too elaborate, too expensive, too small, not quite right — until everything clicked.

Design, space, feature, craft, cost… all falling into a perfect line.

A few weeks later I was back at the drawing board and peeling Douglas fir poles.

The rest is history.

Or, as Justina put it recently;

“We love it and have lunch up there almost every day. The Great T**s also love it and this was the second year they nested in the side rafters — we even got to see five of the chicks fledge in June.”

If you would like to work with us, to explore your personality, your imagination, to really build something you will love for years to come, a creation that makes your heart sing.
Talk to Dominic at The Woodcraft project on;

01452 905679.

https://thewoodcraftproject.com/

26/08/2026

Keeping history where it belongs.

Some parts of a home carry history you just can’t replace.
At Maugersbury Manor, the client asked if their original oak beam could be saved rather than removed — and we were more than happy to make that happen.

We safely propped the structure, then had 10 mm mild steel plates made with flush countersunk fixings so everything sits neat and unobtrusive. The plates were powder‑coated black to blend in with the existing period metalwork, keeping the character of the room exactly as it should be.

Saving heritage features is something we take seriously. Whether it’s a single beam or a full restoration project, we handle every job with care, respect, and the expertise needed to protect the story already built into your home.

If you have a heritage property that needs attention — large or small — The WoodCraft Project can help.

Call Dominic on 01452 905679

Or contact us through our website;

https://thewoodcraftproject.com/our-services/heritage-restoration-alteration/

21/08/2026

Henry has been with me on the team doing what he does for over 25 years. Today he found a new friend on site.

Happy Friday everyone!

Today let's celebrate the doer's, the workers, the unseen, the ones who just get on with it without complaint. Because without them, we would notice their absence, so let's notice their presence instead 🙏🏻

13/08/2026

"Log cabins are like being hugged by the trees themselves"

12/08/2026

Dismantling a timber frame pergola in the yard today 😎

12/08/2026

Welcome to the yard 😁

27/07/2026

This time last year, me and the team were standing in a field at the Green Gathering,
tools laid out, timber ready,
watching people step into carpentry for the first time.
There’s a moment you notice —
a joint cut clean, a shoulder set right —
and the look that comes over someone when they realise
they’ve done something they didn’t think they could.
It’s honest, simple, and it stays with you.

I won’t be there this year, I'll miss you all,
but the work carries on.
I’ll be back in ’27 with more workshops,
more timber,
and more of those small victories that make teaching worthwhile.

Nearly forty years in carpentry has shaped my life.
Learning by doing,
pushing what I know,
taking the next lesson as it comes,
and passing the craft on to anyone willing to pick up a tool.
The Woodcraft Project Ltd is the culmination of my life’s work so far —
decades of graft,
quiet pride,
and the steady satisfaction of making something well.

If you shared that field with me last year, thank you.
If you’re joining me in ’27,
I look forward to seeing what you create.
Enjoy Green Gathering!

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27/07/2026

I stopped at a small church outside Upleadon the other day — one of those places you don’t plan to visit, but the building insists you do.

The tower is the first thing that pulls you in.
A sixteenth‑century timber frame, still upright, still doing its job. Close-set vertical posts, brick infill, and those narrow louvered openings that carry the sound of bells across the valley. If you stand at the corner of the tower with your hands on the posts and look skyward to the heavens, you get a true sense of the enormous oak trees that were felled to create it. The scale only reveals itself when you’re right there, feeling the mass of the timbers and tracing their line upward. It’s rare to see a full timber-framed church tower at all — rarer still to find one that hasn’t been rebuilt in stone. This one has simply endured.

Step around the corner and the timeline jumps backwards.
The Norman nave dates to the 1100s. You can see it in the proportions: thick walls, small windows, the kind of early medieval masonry that was laid when the Forest was still a frontier. The chancel arch is original. The porch is later. The whole thing reads like a ledger of English building practice — Norman stone, Tudor timber, Victorian repairs, and modern care.

What struck me most wasn’t the age.
It was the continuity of craft.

A timber framer in the 1500s stood where I stood, choosing straight grain for the posts and tight joints for the braces. A Norman mason eight centuries earlier shaped stone that still holds its line. Every generation added something, but nobody erased what came before.

That’s the part I carry back into my own work:
Good craft doesn’t shout.
It just keeps standing.

A quiet tower in a quiet village — but a reminder that the best structures aren’t defined by their era. They’re defined by the hands that made them, and the land that agrees to hold them.

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