Turner games table

Our client wanted to surprise her husband with a special gift for his birthday and asked us to create a games table that would house his marble games board.

The brief was to create a table with a compartment for the chess pieces and would also allow the marble games board to be flipped over to backgammon on the underneath of the board.

To allow easy access to the storage compartment, we fitted the table with a button mechanism which when pushed lifts the board out.

So that the table was in keeping with the existing old oak furniture, we used a process called 'fuming'. Oak is put into a chamber with ammonia and in 24 hours the colour is significantly darker.