Kids range
Built for muddy hands and long summers
Mud kitchens, playhouses and outdoor pieces made to order on the same bench as everything else we build — solid enough to get handed down to the next one.
Why Cornerstone
Made to survive being played with
Children's outdoor things have a hard life. Ours are built by hand from the same timber and with the same joinery as our benches and sheds, because a mud kitchen that falls apart in a season is no bargain.
Built like the grown-up furniture
Quality timber and traditional joinery — not thin ply that warps after one winter out on the grass.
Made to order
Sizes and details can be tailored. If you have something particular in mind, ask us and we'll build it.
Every sale funds a home
The money goes into housing and supporting people facing homelessness across the North East. Registered charity no. 1145726.
Why outdoor play
Somewhere to get properly filthy
A mud kitchen is a stove, a laboratory and a restaurant depending on the afternoon. Everything here is made for outdoors and for the kind of play that leaves a mess — put it on the grass, leave it out, and let them get on with it.
- Weather-ready construction, made to live outside
- Sustainably sourced timber
- Bespoke sizes and designs welcome
- Delivered by our own team, built and ready to use
More from the workshop
Explore the rest of the range
Everything is cut, built and finished by hand in our County Durham workshop, and every purchase funds a safe home. See the full range.
Garden & outdoor furniture
Tables, benches and dining sets, built to stand up to a North East winter.
Seating
Benches and chairs, made to the size and finish you need.
Sheds
Tongue and groove sheds, built to your measurements and put up on site.
Summerhouses
Twenty-two standard sizes, delivered, installed and stained.
Gift vouchers
Not sure which one? Let them choose.
A Cornerstone gift voucher works on anything we make — a bench, a shed, a planter, a mud kitchen. They pick the piece and the finish, and every penny still goes into housing and supporting people facing homelessness across the North East.
A present that outlasts the wrapping paper
Handmade in County Durham, and every one pays for housing someone who needs it.