Bespoke Furniture Makers 

Now celebrating 64 years of working with wood, Beaver Furniture offers a wide range of the superb quality fitted and free-standing hardwood furniture to provide the perfect elegant and stylish look for your home or business. We also offer a bespoke design and joinery service for customers who wish to create something unique, so if you don’t see what you had in mind please get in touch with your ideas we will be happy to discuss them with you.

Our catalogue furniture includes a range of traditional and contemporary dining and kitchen tables, chairs, sideboards, and dressers. We also make occasional tables, grandfather clocks, bookcases, corner cabinets and small gifts. We custom-make fitted and free standing furniture for the kitchen, study, office and bedroom. We also supply boardroom and restaurant furniture and are happy to discuss commercial contracts with clients.

We deliver all over the UK and overseas.

Our family run business was established in 1960 by the late Colin Almack. Colin's carved “beaver” trademark, can be found on every piece of furniture we have ever made and earned him the “tag”

The business moved from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, in the early 1970’s to its current home at Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe. Colin and, his wife, Pat named their new home “Beaver Lodge”.

Colin was an exceptionally talented craftsman and took great pleasure in passing on his skills and knowledge to numerous apprentices over the years. David Glegg, Colin’s son-in law and Garry Pawlett have been carrying on this tradition for the last 30 years. David and Colin were both presented to HM Queen Elizabeth and HRH Prince Philip, in 1989, for their (and the team’s) outstanding work on the New Chapter House at Southwark Cathedral. 

We work predominantly in English Oak (Quercus robur) and ensuring the continuance of this magnificent tree is extremely important to us. We source all our oak trees or planked timber, from sustainable managed woodlands on local Estates or from accredited timber merchants. A local sawmill cuts the felled oak trees into planks which are then air dried at Beaver Lodge for up to five years before being hand crafted into beautiful pieces of traditional and contemporary  furniture. We also offer a choice of other hardwoods.

Ammonia is used to “fume” the oak, this process enhances the unique natural grain of the timber and allows us to achieve a choice of colour finishes from natural through medium to dark oak. You may choose between straighter grained timber or the beautiful patterns and knots found in the highly sort a"burr" and "pippy" oak (an additional charge is made for burr and pippy oak). Creating a honeycombed effect is a highly skilled technique called “adzing” and this can be requested as an optional extra finish to the cabinet tops or panels. Chair seats are set on a webbed frame with a high density air filled foam pad which provides exceptional comfort and longevity. The chairs are available in two widths 18" or 20" and all except the Mexborough and Swinton designs are available as “Carvers”.

Visitors are always welcome to come and see the furniture we have on display in the showroom at Beaver Lodge. 

If you don't see what you had in mind please just get in touch with your ideas we will be very happy to discuss them with you.