Home is where the heart is, but Kookachoo interiors can give it soul as well. It’s a family business which translates customers’ ideas and visions into their very own bespoke furniture, injecting tailor-made personality and uniqueness into any space.
Kookachoo is run by carpenter Tim Allard and his wife, Koo. They specialise in free-standing furniture items, either hand crafted from scratch or upcycled from older pieces into something truly original.
Frequently, customers have their own thoughts about a piece of furniture to fit a particular nook or cranny, or to enhance a larger area. If they want a feature dining set to seat a big family, Kookachoo can make it. If they’ve seen a chest they would like, but not in the right dimensions for their room, Kookachoo can produce it to the correct size and give it any finish desired.
Every piece is individually made by Tim, so customers can be certain it has received unwavering care and attention.
He also makes items to his own design and buys in pieces they simply see and like, altering them to taste or incorporating them into other designs, working in high quality natural wood such as oak, elm or walnut. Tim collaborates with local metalworkers to provide steel or cast iron frames and fittings, and in producing his personally designed ‘Industrial Style’ pieces.
The range includes tables, chairs, coffee tables, dressers bookcases, benches, and garden furniture. Koo says: “A lot of the furniture you see on the high street is much of a muchness, but if someone wants something unique, they can come to us, and they won’t have to re-mortgage to get it! A lot of people think as soon as you use words like ‘bespoke’ and ‘customised,’ that the price will be through the roof, but that isn’t so. The cost depends on how much time goes into the piece, but our prices are certainly not ridiculous for something with individuality and quality.”
