Archive: May 2017
Vastern Timber launches a new CPD – Selecting the right timber cladding
May 10, 2017
Vastern Timber has developed a CPD to help architects and other specifiers address the resurgence in timber cladding. Entitled ‘Selecting the Right Timber Cladding’ the presentation explains all of the options and factors that influence timber cladding installation and will help to ensure that cladding used in their designs looks ...
Vastern Timber to promote Brimstone at Materials 2017
April 12, 2017
Vastern Timber, the Wiltshire based sawmill and timber company, will be exhibiting at Materials 2017 - the new conference and exhibition taking place at the ILEC Centre, Earls Court, which focusses entirely on material solutions for architecture, construction, and design. Offering a unique opportunity for architects, specifiers, en...
Brimstone is interviewed at UK Construction week 2016
December 19, 2016
It's been quite a year since we launched the thermally-modified British hardwood range, Brimstone Wood back at EcoBuild in March. Watch the interview with Brimstone's Tom Barnes, at this year's UK Construction week 2016. ...
Innovative use of larch timber for an award-nominated Miner’s Cottage renovation
August 1, 2016
Superb design – and an innovative use of Vastern’s Timber’s Siberian larch cladding and decking – have seen Bristol-based firm Design Storey shortlisted for a prestigious architecture award. The conversion of two 18th Century miner’s cottages into stunning contemporary dwellings has earned Bristol-based architects Design ...
A rural cottage extension using Siberian larch
February 18, 2016
Customer Mick Gemson from Malvern in Worcestershire sent in these pictures of his beautifully-constructed home extension. It sits at the side of an end-terrace ‘farm labourer’s cottage’, and uses Siberian larch cladding supplied by Vastern Timber. Siberian larch is ideal for this kind of project. Its high resin content makes it o...
Vastern Timber launches Brimstone thermally modified timber at EcoBuild 2016
February 10, 2016
Vastern Timber will be launching Brimstone, its groundbreaking super-heated timber product range, at next month’s EcoBuild exhibition in London. Thermally modified timber is growing in popularity around the world because its unique physical properties make it ideal for cladding, decking, and external joinery – and Brimstone is the ...
Vastern Timber cladding wins national award
October 8, 2015
Jointed British Sweet Chestnut Cladding wins Best Cladding System or Product at Build It Awards Vastern Timber, is celebrating after one of its key products triumphed at the national Build It Awards. The company’s Jointed British Sweet Chestnut Cladding secured Best Cladding System or Product at a glittering event at the Tower Ho...
Wiltshire Barn Conversion
November 14, 2014
Vastern Timber and Wiltshire-based firm of architects and builders, Elkin Architects, have collaborated on many projects over the years, sharing as they do a passion for aesthetics and sustainability so they were obvious partners for this unusual barn conversion in Bremhill, north Wiltshire. The conversion was far from the traditio...
English oak takes centre stage at 3 Devonshire Mews North
July 15, 2014
Commissioned to work on the alteration of this Victorian mews house located in the Harley Street Conservation Area of central London, Sonnemann Toon Architects LLP realised in the project an excellent opportunity to showcase the beauty, versatility and durability of English oak. In fact, so impressed were they with the finished article, t...
Oak and wine. The perfect blend.
January 21, 2014
Founded by Mark and Sarah Driver in 2010 near the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, Rathfinny Estate Winery is ideally situated, having as it does, a south-facing aspect in a region already producing the best British wines. Being passionate about the environment, both the owners and designers of this new estate were very keen to...
