About us
After a series of frustrating family holidays and festivals spent in an average nylon tent, we decided there had to be a better alternative. Then we saw it, our first comfy, curvaceous yurt and fell in love. The experience of building and using our own hand-built 16 foot yurt, and the feedback from family and friends, inspired us to create more. The original prototype yurt has been updated since then but the satisfaction of using our craftsmanship to produce these beautiful, ethnic structures remains.
Jeremy and Fabian Daffern
Jeremy trained as a cabinet maker, specialising in furniture restoration and achieved a British Antiques Dealers Association diploma with distinction, the most prestigious in the craft. He also discovered he had a particular flair for gilding and has worked on the restoration of many old and intricate artefacts over the last ten years.
A career’s worth of meticulous attention to detail, an innate understanding of wood and long hours of patient co-ordination of hand and eye is now reflected in the superb construction standard of theroundhouse hand-crafted yurts.
Fabian, Jeremy’s brother and partner in theroundhouse, comes from a business background dealing in antiques and pianos. Together they take their knowledge of what turns a yurt from a makeshift tent into a thing of beauty and practical style and pass it on to an appreciative buyer with the highest possible standards of customer care and efficient service.