Schimmer Child are currently constructing two more traditional-style Shepherd’s Huts for Cotswold Shepherd’s Huts.
Although there are a number of people making them now they seem to be enough of a fashionable garden/paddock accessory to keep orders rolling in, and when the market is saturated that might be the time to move on to the stargazer’s observatory hut, the Japanese Bath hut or the wagon train style circular hut group with communal deck. We’ll see…

Pictured is a console table in fumed oak with purple Satinice; it seemed the only way to go in a double height Reception area completely panelled out in oak.

Schimmer Child designed and built plinths for Jennifer Lee’s ceramics for the exhibition ‘The Nature of Things’ in the Artist’s House, NewArtCentre, Roche Court.
The exhibition of work by Jennifer Lee, Hans Stofer and Ellen Bacon was curated by Sarah Griffin.

The folding deck on this hut is made from local Western Red Cedar. After a winter of being exposed to the elements it is still completely flat and square if a little paler. So we will now be producing them as hook on accessories for existing as well as new huts, with extras such as poles for bunting and lights as well as the wine/log storage supporting boxes. All we need now is for the sun to come back…

Schimmer Child have designed, built and installed a display wall for the Donna Wilson exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Come the Bespoke Huts.

Schimmer Child have been asked by Cotswold Shepherd’s Huts to design and build a hut for the 21st Century, destined for boutique camping at music festivals rather than lambing on a wind blasted hillside.

The updated hut retains the cast iron wheels and familiar silhouette, but has LED lighting washing the ceiling, a fold down deck, lift-up window on gas struts and western red cedar cladding which will gradually silver in the weather.

Watch out for the Wetroom Hut and Japanese Bathing hut which will be trundling along shortly…

Stacking Douglas Fir boxes for Scottish Jewellery designer and maker Dot Sim

Schimmer Child have designed and made a budget bespoke shelving system for Music Dynamics new retail outlet. Music Dynamics has one of the largest collections of choral sheet music in Europe and also supplies a huge range of rehearsal CDs to choirs.

The angled shelves are made from a solid redwood sheet material and finished with Osmo Woodwax transparent which has turned out to be a very effective one coat finish.

We’ve been doing some design development work for Cotswold Shepherds Huts who tell us that now Spring is finally appearing – in the South at least – that many people’s thoughts are turning to the ownership of a hut for their garden, for staying in at festivals, for using as a studio. Why I wonder, do people enjoy a miniature living space so much? What makes them leave the bedroom of their large permanent structure in favour of a bedroom seperated from the stars only by softwood and tin?

From a design point of view, it’s hard to better the simplicity and effectiveness of a moveable box raised off the ground with a curved roof and corrugated iron cladding to keep the weather off the timber, but I suspect that’s not what most people are appreciating…