It's the view from the rear that captures the imagination: an extension built almost entirely of glass, supported on an oak frame.

The oak frame can be fumed or natural; leather can be undyed, hazel or havana.

It has a solid oak frame, a spindle headboard and a slatted base.

They sawed beams from the logs and built a structural oak frame, joining the pieces using a technique employed by medieval builders: mortise and tenon.

The oak frame needed restoration, with about one in five of the timbers replaced.

Snooty officials claim the facilities are too plain — and want 'historic oak panelling' installed in a six-week luxury makeover.

Among other reminders are the flagstone floors and oak panelling, all immaculately restored in the more sympathetic latterday style of refurbishment.

Inside, it's all as you'd expect: oak panelling, tables groaning under bottles of single malt, paintings of game birds.

It retains traditional details such as oak panelling and beamed ceilings, but has been brought up to date with swanky bathrooms and a contemporary kitchen.

The heart of the property dates from the 17th century, with beams, honeytoned oak panelling, an inglenook fireplace (with wood-burner) and attractive gothic windows.

Inside, there are beams, sofas and oak panels, and there are usually five cask ales to choose from.

It needs updating, but still has oak panels and the original fireplaces.

In the dining room, the couple replaced 1970s stone cladding with oak panels.

Inside, the nods to nature include the waxed antique oak panels that cover the end wall in the sitting area.

What really impress though are the oak panels in all the rooms except the six on the top floor.

A sculptural and artfully rustic oak staircase dominates the interior and links to the first-floor bedroom.

To join the separate units, he commissioned a solid oak staircase, which was built in situ.

Inside, period features include exposed timbers, wooden block flooring and a carved oak staircase.

Inside, it has pewter door furniture, reclaimed antique floorboards, lashings of limestone and an oak staircase.

It has four elegant reception rooms and a hall with a stained-glass stairwell window, as well as a stately oak staircase.

His move into designing individual pieces of furniture occurred when a client asked for a huge oak table made from a single timber board.

A sizeable lump, it's now underneath an oak table in the kitchen.

On a long oak table stood little pewter saucepans filled with chicken livers and walnuts.

The rough and ready furnishings are a perfect match, especially the butler's oak table and the lovely green antique dresser.

An arched entrance hall leads into the dining hall with its long oak table.

There was further unexplained damage to a 5in oak timber.

The locks were to be supervised by a civil engineer, with repair work to be carried out using oak timber, rather than fir.

A one-metre thick bed of oak timber topped the masonry foundation and provided the immediate floor for the giant anvil.

The first phase of the building was rectangular, and was constructed in oak timber framing with wattle and daub infill.

It received its name on account of oak timber growing in the vicinity.

Researchers also found that 44 per cent of adults could not identify an oak tree.

A few hundred feet later, his life ended when his car found an oak tree.

The lifting machine had been trying to move a 150-year-old oak tree, but it was too heavy and the crane toppled backwards.

While walking through beech woodland recently, he 'felt' an oak tree behind him, he says.

We also have an oak tree that keeps all its leaves in winter, the holm oak.

Shown in beech with walnut veneer, it's also available in beech with oak veneer.

The walls of the room are oak veneer stained a soft tobacco brown.

In midcentury style, in oak and oak veneers, it's finished with a walnutcoloured varnish.

It's not as if they'd chainsawed an oak wood; the scars will heal relatively soon.

Inside the 10,000sq ft property, they deliberately restricted themselves to a few materials: solid oak wood interiors with steel and aluminium windows.

In an email to me, he likened the demolition of an oak wood to a 'farmer cutting a field of waving golden corn' in the autumn.

They make a bulky nest of twigs, very often in a fir tree in an oak wood.

It's remote, on the far side of the middle of nowhere, with a gnarled mossy oak wood in front and a steep, stark hill rearing up behind.

There are patches of ancient oak woodland and grassy hummocks to sit on, too.

A flat, grassy clearing in oak woodland leads to the mainly shallow river, with some deeper stretches.

The variety of natural habitats include mixed oak woodland, riparian zones, and bayland marshes.

Distinct habitat areas within the county include oak woodland, redwood forest, northern coastal scrub, grassland, marshland, oak savanna and riparian woodland.

Habitats include coastal sage scrub and chaparral to oak woodland and freshwater marsh.

The revamp has included a new kitchen and solid oak floors.

The high ceilings - 11½ft at the apex - and solid oak floor make it perfect for practice and performance.

It has solid oak parquet floors and a courtyard garden.

It's solid oak, with a handwoven charcoal seat.

Inside the 14ft x 7ft 6in version shown are a space-saving pullout day bed and a folding desk in solid oak.

They like tall oak and beech woods, where the new leaves that are just opening are in close harmony with their colour.

The fruity fluting of blackcap from a hawthorn; the chiming of chiffchaff from the tall oak, and in the hedges, the rattle of lesser whitethroat.

The woods have tall oaks above a layer of sweet chestnut, rowan and birch, and there are several areas of grassland.

Hundreds of trees were planted, consisting of over 50 varieties, including a long entry allee drive formed by tall oaks, a couple groves of pine trees and an apple orchard.