Joinery · Stellenbosch · Est. 2009

Wood, worked until it belongs.

Kitchens, stairs, decks and built-ins for Cape homes. Designed in the studio, made in our workshop, fitted on site.

Handmade in the Winelands

The workshop

A bench, a saw, and houses that ask for better timber.

HEWN is a small Stellenbosch joinery. We take on a handful of residential jobs each year — not because we like waiting lists, but because a kitchen or staircase should be made by the same people who measured the room.

Yellowwood, oak, ash and meranti. Traditional joints where they earn their keep. Hidden steel where a house needs it. No catalogue kitchens, no chipboard pretending otherwise.

Years on the tools

140

Homes fitted

Makers in the shop

Selected work

Jobs that left the workshop

A few recent fits — Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and the City Bowl.

01 — Bantry Bay

Galley kitchen in European oak

02 — Stellenbosch

Open-tread stair in ash

03 — Franschhoek

Deck and pergola, meranti

Built-in timber cabinetry in a living room

04 — Oranjezicht

Wall of cabinetry

Outdoor timber seating and garden structure

05 — Constantia

Garden bench and screen

Workshop joinery details on a kitchen island

06 — Somerset West

Island and pantry run

What we make

Joinery that earns its place in the house.

Kitchens

Bespoke runs, islands and pantries. Drawers that close like they mean it. We design around how you cook, not a 600mm grid.

Stairs & rails

Open treads, closed strings, handrails that fit the hand. Structural when they need to be, quiet when they don’t.

Decks & outdoor timber

Pergolas, stoeps and screens built for Cape sun and winter wet. Oil, not a plastic film, so the wood can move.

Built-ins

Libraries, window seats, wardrobes and mudroom benches. The work that makes a room feel finished.

How a job runs

Measure twice. Cut once. Fit with care.

Step 01

Walk the house

We visit, measure, and talk through how the room is actually used. Photos and a tape. No mood-board theatre.
Step 02

Draw & quote

Simple drawings, timber choices, a fixed quote. You see the joints and the cost before anyone picks up a saw.
Step 03

Make in the shop

Most of the work happens here in Stellenbosch. You can come and see a carcass before it leaves the bench.
Step 04

Fit on site

We install it ourselves. Scribe to the wall, level to the floor, leave the house cleaner than we found it.

Craftsman working timber by hand in the workshop

The shop, Pniel Road

The studio

Four makers. One workshop. No middlemen.

HEWN was started by Pieter van Wyk after years on site as a carpenter. The shop sits just outside Stellenbosch — enough space for full kitchen runs, a spray booth, and a bench that has seen better decades and still holds a line.

We work with architects and homeowners. If you already have drawings, we build from them. If you don’t, we will sketch until the room makes sense.

“If it could be ordered from a warehouse, it is not a HEWN job.”
Pieter van Wyk, maker

Clients

What they said after we left.

“The kitchen sits in the room as if the house had been waiting for it. Drawers, grain, the lot.”

N. Abrahams · Bantry Bay

“On time, on quote, and they swept up. The stair is the first thing guests touch.”

J. de Villiers · Stellenbosch

“They talked us out of a cheaper timber. Annoyed at the time. Grateful every summer since.”

M. Patel · Franschhoek

Start a job

Tell us about the room.

Send a few photos, a rough size, and when you want it done. We will tell you if it is a HEWN job, and if it is, when we can walk the house.

Workshop: Pniel Road, Stellenbosch, 7600
Telephone: 021 885 1240
Email: studio@hewn.co.za
Hours: Mon–Thu 07:30–16:30 · Fri 07:30–14:00