Buy British

Buy British

Why ?

Well I might go on and on regarding the quality standards that you will find with our items and probably would do with most UK made items, we are a proud bunch and take pride in what we make. You will have seen this a 100’s times before.

I could well point you to loads of sites where although the site does not openly  state the items are not British made, most will be from china and the rest of the far east ,  they will be and although they are not quite up to the standard of British gear to be honest some aren't bad.  With that think about the following  for a minute . The Uk furniture market  has a turnover of £10.3 billion pa which is around 2% of the country's GDP in which  130 thousand people work.  From the 2001 till 2008 the UK furniture production market flat lined, in terms of increase, and in 2008 when the recession really kicked  in it fell 22%. China are making the most of this flooding the UK with their  low end items, most at a  price to the importer far  lower than I could purchase the raw timber for. China and the other big names in the market will  only continue while there is demand for it and if the imbalance continues the Uk market could well fall even more or be shrunk so small that only the very high end would remain pushing most handcrafted items past the reach most customers. If it’s allowed to go on not only would we be losing the £10.3 billion but one of the 130 thousand  that work in the trade might have his eye set right  on your job! We must not allow it to happen, these skills have been handed from generation to generation and it would be a disaster if they were lost.

Help British manufacturing and

Short and sweet post today. See our facebook page to be in with a chance of winning £50.

£100 monthly give away

That's right we are giving away £100 worth of products every month. Whats more it's so simple to be in with a chance of winning, just become a fan of The Oak Shop on facebook and that's it, your in with a shout. There's no catches or gimicks just £100 to spend on our site for one lucky winner each month.

Here's how it's going to work?

Go to The Oak Shop facebook page and become a fan.

Then each month we will pick one lucky winner at random from our fan list [sorry I will be removing family members from the draw].

The winner will be emailed via their facebook account and the name of each months winner will be posted on The Oak Shops page.

The winner will then be able to go to our website and pick goods up to the value of £100. If the winner wants an item over £100 then they will get a £100 discount [ie a £150 item would cost just £50, if your chosen item is under £100 there will be no cash alternative.]

The item will then be delivered to the winners home 2-4 weeks later.

There will be no minimum spend or a hefty postage fee to pay just £100 off any item/items

Terms

• There will be no cash alternative.
• Your name must be on our fan list to win
• Your chosen item must be from our website at www.thesolidoakshop.com
• No items will be allowed from our ebay shop
• Your £100 must be used within 90 days
• There will be no minimum spend
• We will never share your details with any 3rd party other than your facebook profile name once on our winners list.
• First draw 28/02/10 last draw 30/04/10
• Delivery is mainland uk only
  

Karolo

We are now selling on Karolo. The new online market place for new and used furniture. Many of our items can be purchased straight from the Karolo site or as normal from our own site. If you don't want to pay the price for new furniture still take a look at karolo as there are some great bargins to be had. The new and safer way to buy and sell.

Karolo also work very closely with charities. Take a look at their site for full details.

Clearance Page

New to our site are these tall dvd /cd storage units. This one was built to customer spec but could be built to meet your requirments.

As we posted below our new clearance page is now live. There's not that much at the moment but this will be added to in the coming days. Click here to go straight to it.

Clearance page COMING SOON

We will be shortly adding a clearance page to our site. There will be a range of items from items which are simply over stock, mis-measures and a small amount of seconds. Each item will be fully described as to why it's on the clearance page including any defects should it be a second. Each item will be priced to suit but will be at a greatly reduced price from our normal list price. These prices won't be repeated so don't delay as once they are gone that's it. We will be sending out a mailing email to our subscribers when this page goes live so why not add your name to our mailing list and be one of the first to get your hands on these not to be missed prices. Our mailing list subscription can be found on our home page, about half way down on the right. Click here to go to our site home page. Please note we will never share your details with any thrid party and you won't be bombared with emails [one about every 4-6 weeks].

Some of you will know we promised a sneak preview of our new range for 2010 on the blog. This has had to be delayed till the new year while we put some final touches to the products.

Oak Open Bookcase

This lovely oak open bookcase was built to spec recenctly for one of our clinets. They had seen the design in a major high street retail store but unfortunlty is wasn't to their size requirements [and in MDF]. We built it to meet their spec and in solid oak using mortice and tennion for the frame constuction and dovtails on the drawers. We now have these units for sale in our online shop at The Oak Shop

We do have it listed in a couple of sizes however if your required size is not listed don't panic, just ask and we will put your size up for you.