Carpenter Oak & Woodland has probably built more bespoke oak framed houses than any other UK company. To see more great examples of our unique craftsmanship, download the oak frame homes brochure (PDF file 3.3MB). You can also request a printed copy of this brochure.

Our oak framed houses have been featured no fewer than three times on Channel 4’s Grand Designs.

Building an oak framed house is a deeply individual choice: the desire for a unique property of great character. This is why every single one of our oak framed homes is unique, designed and built to match your exact needs.

Whether you are having a house built for you or you are building your own house you probably want to find out about what’s involved. For most people building a bespoke family home is a new, once in a lifetime experience and with the right support it can be immensely rewarding and enjoyable.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland have been helping families to build their oak framed homes for more than 20 years. From the first embryonic stages through to the completion of their project we’ve helped hundreds of people to reach their aspirations of living in a beautifully crafted, well built oak framed house.

It doesn’t matter what stage your project is at the staff at Carpenter Oak & Woodland are here to help. Whether this is a completely new experience for you or you’ve got years of construction know-how under your belt we’ll talk with you not at you. We enjoy working with people as they go through the learning curve, helping them to make informed decisions.

 

So this is all new to you

We regularly work with customers whose opening line is ‘We’ve never done this before; we don’t know where to start’.

We won’t bamboozle you with terminology or overwhelm you with too much too quickly. We’ll listen, and listen and listen some more. We’ll ask some questions so that we start to develop an understanding of what you want your new oak framed home to look like and feel like. We’ll ask you about how you live now and how you want your new self build oak framed house to affect your lifestyle. And once we’ve really understood what’s important to you we can start to guide you on the journey of designing your new house, helping you through the planning process, keeping your oak framed house within budget, selecting the right builder and getting your house built.

It doesn’t matter where you are in the process or how well informed you feel you are. All you need to do is pick up the phone and ask for Andy, Paul or Lucy on 01225 743089. Whether you have no idea where to start or you’ve spent years researching how to self build we would be delighted to help.

And just in case you still feel the need to be better informed before you pick up the phone we’ve got some bedtime reading for you.

Finding the right architects to design your oak framed house (PDF 1.98Mb)

Finding the most suitable contractors to build your oak framed house (PDF 980kb)

You may also be interested in our Timber-Framing Guide (PDF 1.7Mb) which gives you a good insight into how oak frames are designed and built and how they perform in the long term.