This was the first large piece of pyrography artwork that Kiri produced, taking around 12 hours to burn by hand onto the board once it had been sanded. The dark areas were created using a ballpoint pyrography nib – producing lots of small dots and a beautiful texture

Kiri made these pendants from birch wood that she cleaved with a froe, then whittled down into a teardrop shape. Once sanded back, she burnt these designs by hand onto the wood with her pyrography pen, oiled the pendants then attached a leather cord

Taking slices of of beautiful cherry wood, Kiri sanded them, then used pyrography to create a variety of designs as Christmas decorations. These were then finished off with red and green twine to allow them to hang on trees

In 2024 Kiri started experimenting with pyrography (free hand burning of designs into wood). So far this has mainly been on hand-cleft birch wood

In the process of setting up a community garden in our area, we wanted to create raised beds / planters so that the majority of the beds could be tended from a sitting position (to make it an accessible garden). A local business had donated some pallets they no longer wanted, so once we had dismantled them and removed the nails, we built some planters

When we reconfigured our middle room, we wanted the focus of the room to be our log burner rather than a screen, however we still wanted to be able to watch TV in the space, play on the Wii with the kids etc. So, inspired by motorhome living, we made this hidden TV shelf, repurposing an old IKEA chest of drawers and the slide-out keyboard mechanism from an old computer desk. We then bought a flip-down under-counter TV bracket which we mounted to the pull-out shelf. The wires are all hidden at the back as the verticals on either side of the drawer front aren’t as deep as the shelf over the top.

When we first moved into our house, there was a glass shower screen that we didn’t particularly like, but we saved as we thought it might make a good cold frame… fast forward a few years and we built this! The frame was made from leftover wood – a combination of pallets, a garden gate I’d made as a GCSE project many years ago and a couple of short bits of decking. We then added parts of an old wooden deckchair mechanism that allowed the chair to be at different angles, to prop up the lid of the cold frame so it could be open to varying degrees

In 2021 the kids were at an ideal place for a playhouse. Our next door neighbour was ripping up their deck and also offered us a few pallets, so we built this out of waste wood. We were having our kitchen redone at the same time, so we used a couple of the old cupboard doors to form a stable door mechanism. Since this photo, we’ve painted the outside to preserve it and added perspex sheets over the window openings so that it can ideally be used in all weathers