Custom-made Furniture

When you buy furniture off a showroom floor or out of a catalogue, you get what the factory thinks you want. Buy from a custom maker, and you can get a heirloom made to your specifications. Factory-produced furniture is often expendable furniture. It is made with the bottom line uppermost in mind. Handcrafted custom furniture is made to last, using the best materials and with quality and customer satisfaction in mind.

Cost. Custom-made furniture is not inexpensive, but it is generally competitive with the factory furniture sold at department stores. At some stores, you can find furniture that is ridiculously cheap. And you will find yourself replacing it in five years – sometimes less. Pieces of handcrafted furniture are the antiques of tomorrow. When you buy a good piece of well-made handcrafted furniture, you have an investment – an expression of quality and personal style that you can hand down to your children or grandchildren.

Options. If you know what you want, a furniture maker will build just the piece you want. If you don't know what you want, the furniture builder will guide you through the process of custom design, making a piece that takes into account the style of your home your needs and your lifestyle. A furniture maker's portfolio is more than a catalogue; it is an exhibit of his craftsmanship. You can get exactly what you want. Pick a wood. Pick a size. Pick a design. Pick a style. Pick a finish. The only limit on the design of custom furniture is the imagination of you and the maker. You will own a unique piece of furniture made especially for you, one that fits you personally.

Materials. A custom furniture maker picks the wood, whether solid or veneer, for its color, figure and beauty. Factories mass-producing furniture cannot afford to work with the wood's grain. When you see a piece with carefully arranged grain on all the doors or on the tabletop, you see how special a piece of furniture can be.

Construction. Factories may use biscuits, dowels, or knock-down fittings when more traditional joinery is called for. Custom furniture makers pick joinery for stability, not just speed, often using the dovetail and mortise-and-tenon joints that have kept valuable antiques strong for hundreds of years.

Pleasure. When you buy a piece of custom-made, handcrafted furniture made specially for you, you have a high-quality, unique piece that will bring you pleasure every day that you own it.