Farm House Collections

Farm House Collections is the working half of the shop: the buckets, feeders, moulds and presses that existed because somebody had a job to do and needed a tool that would survive doing it. Almost none of it was designed to be looked at, which is precisely why it holds a room so well. The proportions come from the hand that carried it and the load it had to take, and those are older and better rules than anything a styling brief produces.

Everything here has been used, and we do not hide it. Galvanised steel arrives dented and dulled to pewter, enamel is chipped through to the base metal at the rim, wood has been worn hollow where hands went. We check that the piece is sound — handles riveted, joints tight, no active rust eating a base through — and then we leave the surface exactly as we found it. Stripping and repainting removes the only thing that cannot be manufactured.

Sizes and finishes vary from piece to piece because the originals did. Where a measurement matters we give it, and where an item is decorative rather than food-safe we say so. If something in this collection has sold and you are looking for another, tell us what you need through the contact page — we buy continuously and rarely go long without a comparable piece.

Most of what is here came out of working buildings rather than houses, which has one practical consequence worth stating: it is dirty when we find it. Everything is cleaned before it is listed — warm water, a soft brush, and nothing more aggressive than that — but old galvanising and old paint hold onto a little of the yard forever, and we would rather leave that than scour it off.

The other consequence is scale. Farm equipment was sized for the job and not for a hallway, so read the measurements before you order, particularly on feeders and presses. If a dimension you need is not in the listing, ask; we would much rather measure a piece twice than have it come back.