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My Rustic Place
Handcrafted in Kenya
Spaces made to feel like home
My Rustic Place

Handcrafted in Kenya

Spaces made to
feel like home.

Timeless furniture, beautiful décor and thoughtfully made pieces. Built by hand from natural materials, to transform the rooms you live in.

Honesty and sustainability, chosen with care.

Our furniture is made from natural materials, selected with consideration and respect for nature, environment and people. Every piece is finished by hand in Kenya, which is also why no two of them are identical. More about how we work.

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Every room, considered.

Eight categories, one workshop. Each piece is made or hand-finished by our own team in Nairobi.

Shop by space

Design your space.

Start with the room rather than the product. Choose a space to see the pieces we'd put in it.

Coffee tables with presence, sideboards that carry a room, and media consoles that stop being furniture and start being architecture.

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Our favourites

This week, at a better price.

Pieces currently reduced in the showroom. When one sells, it is gone, most are one of a kind.

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Rustic Mirror
11%

Mirror

Rustic Mirror

KSh 80,000KSh 90,000

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Four ways into the workshop.

We group our work by feeling rather than by product type, start wherever your room is going.

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A reclaimed-timber trunk being hand-finished
Hands working timber at the bench

Our story

More than furniture.
A way of living.

Every space tells a story. Ours begins with a plank of reclaimed timber and a decision about what to leave visible, the saw marks, the grain, the joint, the honest edge where the tree once was.

01

We keep what the wood remembers

Nail holes, old paint, softened edges. They were there before we started; our job is deciding what to keep, not what to add.

02

Natural materials, chosen carefully

Solid and reclaimed timber, selected with consideration and respect for nature, environment and people.

03

Built to your room, not to a catalogue

Almost everything here can be rebuilt narrower, longer or taller. Most weeks, that is exactly what we are doing.

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Custom furniture

Have something
unique in mind?

A table for an awkward alcove. A bar counter to fit a terrace exactly. From concept to creation, we bring furniture ideas to life, the same hands, the same materials, built to your measurements.

  1. 01

    Share the idea

    A sketch, a photo, or just a room and a measurement.

  2. 02

    We draw and quote

    Materials, finish, dimensions and a firm price, no obligation.

  3. 03

    We build it

    Made in our Nairobi workshop, then delivered and placed.

Just arrived

Fresh off the bench.

The most recent pieces to leave the workshop, listed as they are photographed.

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Book Shelve
New

HOME FURNITURE

Book Shelve

KSh 23,000
Inside the My Rustic Place showroom

The showroom

Come and run your
hand along it.

Photographs only get you so far with furniture. Visit us at Lavington Mall, ground floor, to see the grain, test the weight and talk through a room with someone who builds them.

  • Lavington Mall, Ground FloorOpposite Art Café · Nairobi, Kenya
  • Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 6:00pmSaturday, 9:00am to 5:00pmSunday, By appointment

The Journal

Interior notes from the workshop.

Practical guides on choosing, styling and looking after furniture, written by the people who make it.

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The workshop

You can see where
it was made.

Every piece passes through four sets of hands in one building in Nairobi. Nothing is imported flat-packed, and nothing is finished by a machine, which is the whole reason no two of them come out the same.

  1. 01

    The timber is chosen first

    Old doors, boat wood, felled hardwood. We buy the board before we know what it will become, the grain decides that.

  2. 02

    Cut, joined, left honest

    Where a joint does visible structural work, it stays visible. Nothing is hidden behind a veneer.

  3. 03

    Finished by hand

    Oiled and buffed back rather than lacquered, so it feels like timber, and can be refreshed at home years from now.

  4. 04

    Delivered and set in place

    Carried in and put where it is going, across Nairobi and countrywide. Not left at the gate.