The brief to find creative ways to put reclaimed whisky barrels to use marches on with the introduction of these simple but stunning rustic wine racks made from whisky barrel staves. Conceived and manufactured by the ever inventive craftsmen at GalGael we’re selling them through our showroom for a very reasonable £50 per item.
As GalGael are a charity we charge no mark-up on their bespoke furniture or the Whisky Barrel Wine Racks ensuring that all proceeds go directly to GalGael.
Call us on 0845 602 7694 if you require any more details.
Before you all consider recovering from your Burns night celebrations hold on for one last Whisky fuelled hurray and a chance to win a bottle of 18 year old ’The “Glenlivet’ single malt. In conjunction with our sister site ‘ Whisky Barrel Flooring’ we are giving away a bottle of this fine malt to one lucky Twitter follower or Facebook fan, simply retweet our featured tweet with hashtag #unboringflooring and include the hashtag anytime between now and midnight on Friday 27th Jan and you are in with a chance to win the beautiful single malt.
A winner will be drawn at random and notified via Twitter and Facebook at 10am on Monday 30th January. You can enter as many times as possible.We’ve been expanding the Whisky Barrel range of flooring and feature wall products for the original whisky barrel flooring (as featured in the Corinthian Bar) to now include Whisky Barrel Cobbles (which can be seen at the impressive Bruadar Bar) and the new range of 3D Multi-coloured Whisky Cobbles Wall Panels. Good luck!!
Recently in the sleepy town of Bourge, France the locals were bemused by the sudden appearance of a big bumpy foot hazard (or a playful urban art installation as the artist who created would prefer it to be perceived).
From a distance the bump looks just like a speed bump but once pedestrians step on it the structure gives way and ripples and sways.
Created by embedding a water filled cushion under the street cobbles with the aim to break up usual hard texture of the urban setting and provide a fun way for the people to interact with the urban architecture.
This got us thinking… could it work indoors? What regular interior floor covering would work with this – ceramic tiles, wood flooring, whisky barrel cobbles and what kind of interior space would be best suited for this lovely playful installation?
Copenhagen design studio SnedkerStudio have repurposed a traditional marbling technique which ‘engages in a dialogue with the natural growth rings of the wood‘. We’d love to be involved in a project using this unusual flooring idea – please get in touch for an installation quote for this one-off design.
Since February 2009, McKay Flooring have been helping fund international small businesses and individuals through microfinance loans via Kiva in our small bid to help alleviate poverty. Since that date we have made 42 loans to people in Ghana, Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Cambodia, Mali, Burundi, Nicargua, Iraq, Uganda, Liberia, Senegal and Palestine (and beyond). Over the next few weeks we’ll highlight the stories of the people and groups we’ve helped to encourage others to set up their own Kiva account. You can help by donating as little as $25 to a loan fund. In this our 40th year we will increase our fund amount and will also look be looking at how our business and the flooring industry as a whole can help tackle world poverty.
Hardwood Flooring Magazine is the bible of wood flooring magazines and the periodical of the National Wood Flooring Association. Without doubt the most knowledgeable and informative publication for the wood flooring industry it is packed with info as well as features on stunning wood flooring projects. Decembers issue had a great expose on the new [...]
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of how we are regularly commissioned to install reclaimed flooring often to staircases. This photo from StairPorn illustrates the stunning effects when getting creative with reclaimed wood. Bravo! If you would like us to achieve this look for your project then please contact Richard McKay for a quote [...]
We absolutely love new innovations in flooring. Creative Japanese architects 403architecture utilised the existing floor void in this apartment in Hamamatsu to create a huge chest of drawers. We’re currently working on some of our own designs for underfloor storage solutions so interested to see another’s take on this growing trend.
Miami based artist Agustina Woodgate has been redefining her surroundings for years now and fashioning high end objects out of low end and discarded materials such as her chandelier out of defective fishing line. Her latest project ‘Skin Rugs’ has taken 2 years to complete and involved dissembling stuffed animals (toys, teddys etc) and attaching [...]
The brief to find creative ways to put reclaimed whisky barrels to use marches on with the introduction of these simple but stunning rustic wine racks made from whisky barrel staves. Conceived and manufactured by the ever inventive craftsmen at GalGael we’re selling them through our showroom for a very reasonable £50 per item.
