The workshop · 852 Mountain Highway, Bayswater

Eight bays. Everything we make.

One building, eight kinds of work, and every product we sell comes off one of these floors. Open a bay to see what it makes — and a photograph of it being made.

The picture below is an illustration, drawn for this page. It is not a photograph of our building, and no part of it is a photograph of a product. The photographs are inside the bays.

An illustrated guide to what we make, bay by bay

Illustration: eight workshop bays side by side, each with a painted board over it - wood turning, architraves and skirtings, CNC rafters and brackets, gates and fences, fretwork and balustrades, made to match, curved architraves, and dispatch. A drawing of what Heritage makes, not a photograph of the building.

Drawn, not photographed. The illustrator put a chair and a chest of drawers in bay 06 — we do not make furniture. We make architectural joinery: posts, mouldings, brackets, gates, fretwork, balustrade, arches and matching. What that bay actually does is match an existing profile, and the photograph inside it is the original door beside the one we made to match it.

The eight bays

Original brochure records

Documented verandah posts and interior fretwork

Two component-specific workshop records, with the original photographs and catalogue pages. These records identify the timber components, not responsibility for the whole building or an endorsement by the television programme.

Peverell House entrance with turned verandah posts, base mouldings and corner brackets
Original brochure photograph, displayed upright. No AI enhancement.

V4 verandah posts — Peverell House, 2017

The original brochure's The Block 2017 page identifies V4 posts with a 112 × 112 mm square section, post base moulding and CB-22 corner brackets at Peverell House. The current brochure repeats those component details.

For a similar replacement, compare the post profile, square section and position of the turning separately. A catalogue code alone does not confirm the dimensions or structural specification for another house.

Source: Original brochure, PDF page 8 (printed 7). Component supply record; no full restoration claim.

HFR5 decorative frieze above the internal opening in Toad and Mandy's House Rules home
Original brochure photograph of interior frieze work. No AI enhancement.

HFR5 interior frieze — House Rules, 2018

The original brochure states that HFR5 frieze work was manufactured for Toad & Mandy's house on House Rules in 2018. The photograph shows the decorative work across an internal opening; it is an interior example, not weather-exposed verandah fretwork.

Use a photograph and the opening measurements to explain a matching enquiry. For an outdoor verandah, choose from the external fretwork range and confirm its material and dimensions for your project.

Source: Original brochure, PDF page 11 (printed 10). Historical manufacture record, not a current endorsement.

From the workshop archive

Historic projects. The timber we supplied.

Three projects documented in our catalogue, with the specific components and original photographs behind each story. Heritage & Decorative Timber Products is the period range of Karem Woodcraft; the project credits below retain the Karem Woodcraft name.

St Kilda Pier Kiosk facade in an enhanced version of the catalogue photograph
Kiosk project view from the brochure; the documented supply was arched window mouldings. AI-enhanced for display. View the original brochure image.

Restoration components

St Kilda Pier Kiosk

Arched internal and external window mouldings, reproduced by Karem Woodcraft.

The documented brief
Following the kiosk fire, the original drawings helped establish the arched window mouldings to be reproduced.
What was supplied
The catalogue credits Karem Woodcraft with reproducing the arched internal and external window mouldings for the kiosk.
Project detail
The original drawings were the reference for the arched profiles. For a similar matching enquiry, include the drawing and photographs of any surviving mouldings.

Source: Heritage catalogue, printed page 43. Project credit: Karem Woodcraft.

Assembled timber panels on the workshop floor, enhanced from the Oslo Hotel brochure photograph
Assembled panels in the workshop, shown in the catalogue’s Oslo Hotel project section. AI-enhanced for display. View the original brochure image.

Fretwork and balustrade panels

The Oslo Hotel · The Block 2019

Assembled fretwork and balustrade panels supplied by Karem Woodcraft.

The documented brief
The documented selection paired FR4 arched fretwork without a motif with BS6 balustrade panels.
What was supplied
FR4 assembled panels were made in LOSP treated pine. The BS6 assembled balustrade panels used 42 × 42 mm slats, also in LOSP treated pine.
Project detail
The workshop photograph shows assembled panels before installation. The original brochure also includes a photograph of the completed building.

Source: Heritage catalogue, printed page 9. Project credit: Karem Woodcraft.

Timber seating inside a Puffing Billy carriage, enhanced from the catalogue archive photograph
Carriage seating from the workshop archive. The source brochure also shows doors and a seat in production. AI-enhanced for display. View the original brochure image.

Heritage railway components

Puffing Billy carriage joinery

New timber carriage doors and seats manufactured by Karem Woodcraft.

The documented brief
The catalogue records the manufacture of new timber carriage doors and seating for Puffing Billy.
What was supplied
The workshop archive shows carriage doors, a seat in production and seating fitted in a carriage. The photograph here shows the seating.
Project detail
The archive follows individual doors and seating components through to seating fitted inside a carriage. This is a practical example of timber joinery made for an existing setting.

Source: Heritage catalogue, printed page 44. Project credit: Karem Woodcraft.

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