Crafted Hardwoods

Anyone who’s tried to introduce something new knows the drill. There’s excitement… and then there’s the hesitation. The questions. The comparison to whatever came before. 🫣 We’ve felt all of it, and if you’ve been there too, just know you’re not pushing uphill alone. 😅 We’re not experts in behaviour change, just people who’ve been in the thick of it. So drawing on the real conversations, assumptions and hesitation we’ve bumped into along the way, we dug into why innovative materials like ours so often hit resistance. We think there’s value in naming these challenges out loud. Because the more we talk about this stuff, the easier it gets for everyone. And once you see the pattern, you can finally start shifting it. 🙌 If this conversation feels familiar, give us a shout. We’d love to hear about it. 👉 What assumptions have you run into, or which one do you find yourself weighing up most when presented with something new?

We’re not your typical timber. We’re Crafted Hardwoods, a passionate crew proving that timber can be smarter, more sustainable, and more meaningful in the way it’s made and used. For designers and architects, it means a material that inspires. For builders, it’s strength and consistency you can rely on. For resellers, it’s a story customers lean into. And for makers, it’s the freedom to push ideas further. Powered by world-first Australian innovation — where robotics, engineering, and science meet nature — we transform overlooked resources into hardwoods made for real projects and bold ideas. Beautiful, healthy, sustainable, and built to change perspectives. We’re not traditional — and that’s exactly the point. #craftedhardwoods #hardwoods #innovation #sustainablebusiness #sustainablemanufacturing #sustainablehardwood #australianhardwood #sustainablesourcing #hardwood #spottedgum #blackbutt #tasmanianoak #whitegum #silverbirch #hardwoodsupplier #woodsupplier #hardwoodaustralia #antideforestation #proconservation #reducereuserecycle #timber #timbersupplier #australiantimber #australianmade #sustainabletimber #timberflooring #timbercladding #woodreview #woodworking #sustainability

In the timber world, “low-grade” isn’t usually something you brag about. We do 🤣 We spend a lot of time talking about “low-grade” timber, because it’s often misunderstood, under-used, and full of potential when you design around it intentionally. Low-grade timber isn’t unusable timber, but very few manufacturers are set up to use it well. As in, make genuinely higher-value products from it. So we built a system that gives this material somewhere to go, giving it the backbone to become something more. 🦾 The feature is rich. The tones are natural. The feel is unmistakably timber. It all starts somewhere a bit different. And it turns into something genuinely beautiful. High-quality hardwood. Unexpected beginnings. Pssst! Curious what “low-grade” timber looks like in the hands of good design? 👌🏼 See the results in our gallery, link in bio. #kittaparts by @likebutter.au 📸 @nataliejeffcott #STAYstool by @tom_skeehan @skeehanstudio 📸 @ishitamoghe

Announcement! We’re delighted to share our partnership with Crafted Hardwoods for our Conscious Craft 2026 program. Crafted Hardwoods is a young Australian company that gives lower-grade timber resources a pathway into architecture and design, working with timber that current supply chains leave behind. We first collaborated with Crafted Hardwoods on our 2025 Visionaries exhibition, DONE/UNDONE curated by Joseph Gardner, working with the team to source the timber that formed the frame for our exhibition design. In Felled, we are thrilled to reuse the same timber frames – recontextualising them as the structure that supports the exhibition works. Our partnership has developed with deep respect for Crafted Hardwoods’ innovative approach to material use, and their commitment to working with designers and makers to give them the freedom to push their ideas further. We can’t wait to see where this partnership will take us – and we’re excited to work with them on a continuing basis for Conscious Craft – a movement to redefine our relationship with materials. – Images: @claires_arms

Conrad Schooneveldt doesn’t waste a cut. A decade of practice, from Parsons in New York to studios in Amsterdam, then Melbourne, then a workshop in Taggerty, shows up in every proportion. Sketch, scale model, prototype, then machine-cut to precision. Every step earns the next. And our NSW Spotted Gum gets to be part of the result. 🙌🏻 The Babushka Collection is one of the latest pieces to come off his bench. It is built around a Dutch idea: gezellig, meaning warmth, ease and togetherness. Pieces that nest or spread through a space depending on what the moment needs. In our Spotted Gum, it’s got character to spare. 👌🏼 You can see it in person at the Conrad-S exhibition, Designed by Human, Cut by Machine, as part of Melbourne Design Week. A working recreation of his Taggerty studio, sketches, prototypes, Babushka, and all. Conrad, we’re quietly very proud this timber ended up in your hands. Go see him. 👏🏻 @con.rad_s studio 481 Sydney Road, Brunswick 14–24 May 202 Free #MelbourneDesignWeek #AustralianMade #TimberDesign #SustainableTimber #FurnitureDesign

There’s a carbon hotspot in almost every commercial fitout that nobody seems to be talking about. And honestly? That makes sense. Aluminium internal glazing frames became the default for good reasons: modular, predictable, fast to install, familiar to every installer on site. It’s a system that works. The carbon footprint just never had to be part of the conversation. Until now. That repetition across every floorplate, every project, every fitout cycle is exactly what makes it worth a second look. We put our timber up against aluminium, frame for frame, in the same application. Change the frame material, keep everything else: glass, layout, installation logic. You’re sitting roughly 10x lower in embodied carbon per lineal metre. 👊🏼 That’s not a small difference. And across a portfolio of fitouts, it accumulates fast. ReFramed is our answer. It’s a modular timber glazing system built around commercial fitout logic. It’s not asking you to redesign anything, just to reconsider one default. If you’re working on a fitout where the carbon story matters, we’d love to get ReFramed in front of you. Let’s talk! 😉 (The full carbon comparison, and a few other reasons timber frames deserve a place in your next specification, are in the latest blog.) Link in bio. #CraftedHardwoods #CommercialFitout #InteriorDesign #SustainableDesign #EmbodiedCarbon

Value where nobody looked. That’s what this room is full of. Our material is back in the room for Felled, the latest Exhibition by our friends at @CraftVictoria . Six makers proving that the most interesting material is often the stuff nobody wanted. (Held up by timber that was destined for woodchips. Feels about right 😅) Two things make this one special for us. First: This exhibition asks exactly the questions we ask every day. What gets written off as low-grade or difficult, and who decided? What’s possible when you stop waiting for the “right” material and start working with what’s already there? Banksia pods as structural components. Timber shavings as material. Invasive trees destined for pulping, turned into something worth keeping. From roots to leaves, nothing wasted. Second: The timber holding this exhibition together has already held another one. When DONE/UNDONE ended, the Craft Victoria team saw what they had and planned around it. The result is a completely different exhibition, built on the same bones. That’s reuse done properly, and exactly what we hope for when our timber leaves our hands. 🙌🏻 Felled runs until 27 June at Craft Victoria, Watson Place Melbourne. Part of Melbourne Design Week 2026. If you’re in the city, don’t miss it. Artists: @andyward_ @studio_kyokohashimoto @guykeulemans @bolajiteniola @jesshumpston @mannerfurniture @manandgum Photography: 1. Claire Armstrong 2. Connor Patterson Photography 3. CJ Cornish 4. Mark Lilly 5. Alexander Robertson #AustralianMakers #ConsciousCraft #MelbourneDesignWeek #CraftedHardwoods #MaterialMatters

This table started as a conversation (a long one) between two people who don’t let each other off easy. 😉 Craft vs technology. Nature vs artifice. Control vs expression. @jongoulder and @hrmwilliams have been pushing each other’s thinking for a decade. Then they built this. 🤩 It’s made from our timber, from end to end. At a scale that earns its place in the room. And it does something we always hoped it might: it stops being just a material choice and starts defining the work. Our material comes from resources the industry tends to sideline. Lower-grade timber that wouldn’t typically find its way into design, let alone into the hands of someone like Jon. That journey, from overlooked resource to something like this, is exactly what we set out to make possible. Come and see it in person, we’d love that. Chapter House, Melbourne #MelbourneDesignWeek 14–24 May Image @jvdkphoto @jongoulder @henrywilliamsstudio @alpha60thelabel @ngvmelbourne

Robot machining the @craftedhardwoodscom pedestal from start to finish. For scale the billet of timber we are machining this from is 0.5m square by 1m high. . . . #twigandbot #robotmachining #lathe #craftedhardwood #digitalfabrication

Big news from the compliance desk: we just earned our Declare Label 👊🏼 Declare is a materials transparency label that makes manufacturers accountable for what’s actually in their products. No vague claims. No greenwashing. Just honesty about ingredients. For us, this milestone really matters because material health has always been part of the work. Genuine timber. No Red List ingredients. No added formaldehyde. VOC emissions well below recognised thresholds. And now, independently assessed and documented through Declare. 🙌🏻 For architects, designers and clients working on healthier interiors, education spaces, healthcare, passive homes or high-performance commercial projects, this means fewer questions marks and greater confidence in the materials being brought into the space. If material health is part of your specification conversation (and it should be!) we’d love to talk. Declare details are now on our website. Link in bio. #CraftedHardwoods #MaterialHealth #HealthyBuildings #MaterialMatters

Robot sanding, craftedhardwoods and UV cured hardwax oil finishes. All feels a bit futuristic. This is a project we have been working on with @craftedhardwoodscom , a table pedestal with integrated wiring channels machined from a solid billet of their blackbutt material. . . . #twigandbot #robotsanding #craftedhardwood #blackbutttimber #uvfinish

It’s fair to say, we’re showing up in more places than we expected! 😅 Same material. Six different events at #MelbourneDesignWeek. From new work to reuse. From craft to manufacturing. From installation to conversation. Seeing our material take on completely different forms depending on who’s using it has been the best part 👌🏼 All made possible by people we genuinely respect. People open enough to test it, question it, and use it in their own way. We don’t take that lightly. 🙌🏻 @jongoulder @henrywilliamsstudio @craftvictoria @cultivated_au @con.rad_s @locki.humphrey Legends! We’ll share more details of each event over the coming days. 📸 @jvdkphoto