Louise woke to the sound of Crumble barking, his tiny bark amusing in its pitch, John had already left for work, so she threw on a dressing gown and headed downstairs to let out the pup. She grabbed a coffee and powered up her laptop as she watched the dog gambol around the garden in front of the kitchen before feeding him breakfast. It had been a week since they had moved in, and their neighbours had invited them over tonight for a drink and introductions. Louise could do without it but also realised it made good sense to be good neighbours and to find out a bit more about the village.
She also wanted to get something for John to thank him for all his hard work and getting them the house. She knew he loved to tie her up and wanted to get him a bench/stool that he could tie her down to and play with her. She had seen several on a number of BDSM sites but never been able to find exactly what she wanted, a combination of padded bench and metal stock for her neck and wrists to be restrained within. After checking out multiple websites she found a furniture maker who had a sideline in making kinky furniture his designs appeared good and covered benches, crosses and beds. He was only 40 mins drive away on the outskirts of a village, he also had some amazing metal work including cuffs, hooks, and multiple stands and restraints.
Louse decided to give the number a call rather than get into long back and forth emails, after a series of rings the phone was answered. Louise heard a strong older voice answer, slightly well-spoken but with no discernible accent.
"Dark Design bespoke furniture, Steve speaking."
"Hello, I have just been looking at your website and would like to discuss getting a custom padded bench made."
"Well we can certainly do that, do have a clear idea from what you have seen what you would like, we have a lot of designs which are not all on the website so we can do anything you need. Is there anything specific beyond a padded bench you are looking for?"
"Yes, I would like to integrate a stock that a neck and wrists can go through at the front of the bench for restraint."
"I see, well for integrating metal we would need all measurements otherwise you get holes either too big or too small and you need to be in proportion for the body of whoever is to be restrained, are you able to send over those measurements?"
"Well, I would rather not get the measurements wrong as am guessing this will not be cheap is it possible to come to your workshop and get measured up?"
"We can certainly do that, just let us know when your able to come down and we can set some time aside show you all options and get you measured up."
"I am really keen to get the build going so is it possible to drop by today at all, I am only 40 mins away?" Louise asked.
"Yes we could do that how about around lunch time say 1pm, as its Friday we shut at 3pm so 1pm should work, then we can give you a tour of the stock and discuss options and get you measured up, we also require 50% down payment once agreed to cover costs, if your happy with that we can go ahead."
"Great I will see you at 1pm, thanks for being so helpful, by the way I am Louise."
"No problem, Louise, the customer always comes first here."
"Thanks, bye." Lousie inwardly laughed as she ended the call at his last comment which she sensed had a degree of innuendo to it, she guessed they met all sorts and many interesting people in their line of work.
After playing with Crumble and tiring him out, she grabbed a light breakfast took a shower, shaved, and decided what to wear. She figured a light short summer dress would cover all bases and allow her to be measured easily enough and as usual she opted for no underwear, and besides the weather was warm and she liked the feeling of the sun and slight breeze on her bare legs and pussy.
After doing her hair and makeup and having a last check in on the pup who spent half his time asleep, she jumped in the car punched in the postcode and headed out. It was a beautiful day, and she soon found herself immersed in the drive and enjoying the journey, in no time at all she entered a small village and found the satnav directing her up a quiet slip road. As she drove up the road, she saw a sign cut in thick metal outside a large barn complex that read "Dark Design Bespoke Furniture."
She pulled into the parking area which had two other vehicles in it, both had the Dark Design logo splashed over their sides, one was a pickup truck and the other a large van. She parked next to the van turned off the engine and stepped out looking around for a reception. There was a huge, shuttered barn and several linked out buildings, she spotted a door that appeared open on the side of the barn and walked towards it. As she approached it a tall well-built man appeared, he wore faded jeans and a dark blue T-Shirt, with heavy leather boots, she guessed he must be in his late fifties, he had a kind face, strong arms and was lean.
"Louise?" He asked, clearly eyeing her legs and low cut dress.
"Yes, Steve?" She replied.
"That's me, well you found us ok then, sometimes we get people lost asking at the village shop, which is always fun, I don't think they approve of us!"
"I can imagine, well it was a straight forward drive. Looks like you have a lot of workshops here, business must be good." She replied. She noticed a distinctive tattoo on his forearm that looked like a blade running through a Greek warrior's helmet with a motto in Latin underneath.
Steve caught her gaze and spoke. "It is my old unit when I served. It's in many ways why I set this up, when I left I could not face an office job and I like to work with my hands and always doing something challenging."
Louise nodded as he continued.
"I had an old uncle who left me this space with the barn and workshops and we updated it all and have now been here for about ten years, we export quite a lot too, so we have a large storage area as well as the workshops, but we only have 3 staff and only 2 of us are full time just Dom and I. Dom is our resident Blacksmith and metalwork specialist, he also served with me so I trust him and he is very skilled, he does all the really intricate metal work, I build the frames and come up with designs and then we have a girl called Vicky who does all the leather work and stitching. Anyway, let me show you around and you can see what we have, and then we can get an idea of what you're after."
Louise followed Steve into the barn, her eyes adjusting to the light as she stepped out of the sunshine. It was like an Aladdin's cave of kink, against one wall was every imaginable type of cross from bare wooden St Andrews crosses to elaborate metal crosses welded in intricate designs, some were plain, some heavily embossed with Celtic and Gothic designs with ring attachment points, shackles and further leather strap attachments.