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For the love of timber
At a recent visit to Design Ex interior designer Fi Thomas came across a beautiful and innovative interior product. Wood Melbourne is a humble enterprise that is Australia’s very first producer of reclaimed timber spouts for the home.
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Oliver MacLatchy, a builder by trade, set up Wood Melbourne in 2013 when he unsuccessfully tried sourcing timber spouts for his own home. Combining his love of timber, recycling, experimentation and the gap in the market place he began creating.
The timber spouts are hand made in Wood Melbourne’s West Brunswick workshop and provide an alternative to the traditional standard spouts.
“The result is a unique, sustainable and a fantastic addition to a bathroom. Wood Melbourne was created to share my love of timber with others and with the launch of this range I feel that I have accomplished that. Our timber spouts are of the highest quality, yet are low maintenance and incredibly durable, making them suitable for a huge variety of commercial and residential installations” says Oliver MacLatchy, founder and maker at Wood Melbourne.
RECYCLING AND REUSING OUR PRECIOUS RESOURCES
The range contains two timber spout designs: Kiri and Isla. Both are hand made from reclaimed black butt timber that is 80 years old. Each piece of timber is put through a 12-step process including de-nailing, sanding and waxing to produce an individual timber spout, ensuring each finished timber spout is unique in aesthetic and character but uniform in levels of exceptional craftsmanship and quality. Simple to install and even simpler to maintain.
WOOD MELBOURNE E: hello@woodmelbourne.com.au P: Oliver Maclatchy 0401 630 558 W: www.woodmelbourne.com
Fi Thomas www.fithomas.com
For more innovations from DesignEx check out our Out&About column on page 52. What I love about this product is, it is handcrafted from recycled timber and it showcases timber in all its beauty. With more tinkering and experimenting occurring in the workshop, plans are already in place to expand the product range further in the near future.
