“I’ve been making fitted furniture for over twenty years. With all those years of experience, I’d say I was pretty good at it now. But that doesn’t stop me from wanting to learn more. I’m continually developing new production methods and investing in the latest tools and machinery for the workshop at Milkwood. I love making things and I want to make them to the best of my ability using the best materials available and with the very best tools I can lay my hands on. ”

“Milkwood started out as Woodgate Design - after my family name - when I set the business up in 2000 after first studying Sculpture & then Furniture Design at the old London College of Furniture.  My first joinery workshop was on Southgate Road in Islington, London. Eventually, I outgrew it and we moved to Kent to a much bigger workshop in an old dairy building on a farm surrounded by woodland. The farmer who we rent it from remembers milking the cows by hand in our old milking parlour when he was a boy & we decided to incorporate the history of our new premises into the new name for our business. We’ve been here since 2014 and have invested heavily in new machinery which increases the quality & the possibilities of what we can make.”