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Environmentally friendly eco coffins. Hand crafted to a high standard. Any paints used are natural chalk based and waxes used are Natural Beeswax based.

Feet First Coffins and Caskets are constructed using peg and dowels so contain no screws, nails, metal hinges, or heavy chemical based glues, plywood or synthetic materials. Feet First Coffins hand build Coffins & Caskets using only solid wood in our construction, all are individually handcrafted and designed to return to the earth naturally. Feet First Coffins and Caskets are constructed using peg and dowels so contain no screws, nails, metal hinges, or heavy chemical based glues, chipboard, plywood, synthetic materials or other hardware. Because they are made of solid pine wood and fully biodegradable, they are perfect for eco-friendly natural burials and green cremations. Our coffins and caskets are beautifully Hand crafted from solid pinewood, which is sourced from sustainable forests and lined using 100% non-bleached natural fair-trade cotton with meadow grass hay padding when requested, handles are made from either natural h**p rope or pine handrails. Everything we display may be purchased as you see it here, or you may request modifications. Simply contact us to discuss the details. Also note, all our products are individually handmade and though great care is taken to recreate every piece to match the original, no replica will ever be an exact match. We try to keep all of our stock items on-hand so we can for fill your requests without delay. Please keep in mind that if you want specialty or custom pieces this will require production time.

19/11/2025

Recent Tree of Life headboard out of the workshop.

06/08/2025

We always appreciate feedback from families at that most difficult time.

Hi Paul

I am just writing to say thank you for the beautiful Devonshire Eco-Casket you made last month for my Mum, Kathleen. It won praise from everyone, funeral attendees and professional staff alike.

Thank you especially for the efforts you made to accommodate Dad’s ashes and for the lovely inscription on the lid.

The funeral took place on a beautiful sunny day, with butterflies and dragonflies all around, and Handel’s Messiah ringing out!

Warm regards,
Michael

24/06/2024

Compass pyrography lid burn under a light oak stain.

05/04/2024

08/02/2024

One of our Devonshire Eco-caskets that was used for a book cover photoshoot.
Photographic credit: Howard Bartrop

01/12/2023

A recent Devonshire with 8 person stepped lift rail out of the workshop.

14/11/2023

A recent recessed lid casket out of the workshop, first time with a stepped rail fitted to one.

24/11/2022

Couple of recent headboards out the workshop.

04/04/2022

Hello Paul,
Just to say a big thank you for the Scandinavian casket you provided for the funeral on Friday of our Dad Don.
Dad had very strong connections with Norway so we - Dad's children - were keen to find a casket that reflected this. The Scandinavian eco-casket was the perfect design.
We were particularly impressed by the personal touch with which you asked what Dad's favourite music was, so that you could listen to it during the making of the casket. You knew his particular music well. The fact that you also explained you have a Norwegian connection was the serendipity icing on the cake. It really made us feel that we had found the right person with the right design, and who knew the right music for the production process, all of which Dad would thoroughly have approved.
Thank you for your help, and the way in which you communicated with us - very much appreciated.

With kind regards,
Simon (London)

07/02/2022

Some lovely feed back from a new review left on our Google page.

14/12/2021

Memory panels available, working in conjunction with our local commercial artist Sally Leggatt who currently works with the Wildlife Trust, there is now an option to purchase one of Sally's wildlife paintings as a lasting memory panel for a loved one that uses a piece of the same timber that we use to build a loved ones coffin.
Please feel free to ask for further details.

25/10/2021

One of our Devonshire eco-caskets in the fabulous electric hearse belonging to ‘A Natural Undertaking’ based in South Birmingham.

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Buckingham
MK184DR

Telephone

07971600515 or (01908) 506768

Website

http://www.feetfirstcoffins.co.uk/

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Feet First Coffins offer hand built Eco-Coffins & Caskets using only locally grown and sourced solid timber, constructed using peg and dowels and using traditional hand tools so they contain no screws, nails, metal hinges, or heavy chemical based glues in our construction, all are individually handcrafted and designed to return to the earth naturally.

Feet First Coffins are made using only locally sourced timber lined using fair-trade 100% non-bleached natural cotton with locally grown organic meadow grass hay padding, with handles made from either natural fair-trade rope or wooden handrails. Any paints used are natural chalk based and any waxes used are Homemade Natural Beeswax based and are fully biodegradable, they are perfect for environmentally friendly natural burials and green cremations, whilst offering a very low carbon footprint.

Originally we were building coffins for friends and family, due to continuing and expanding requests we decided back in 2008 to open Feet First Coffins to offer our services to the wider public, whilst keeping the same small friend and family level of service.