Cherry
Cherry deepens with light. A piece that leaves the workshop a pale honey will be a warm russet within five years and richer still a decade on. That change is not something to be managed; it is the reason to choose cherry in the first place.
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Handcrafted Dining Room Furniture
Tables, cupboards, and Windsor seating built from solid American hardwood and proportioned to the room they will stand in. Every dimension, species, and finish is settled with you before the first board is cut.
Cherry, natural finish
The Collection
What furnishes a dining room.
Tables
Built to your length and width, with the leg turning and edge profile chosen to suit the room.
Corner Cupboards
Glazed or paneled, and cut to the corner your house actually has rather than a nominal ninety degrees.
Cupboards
Two-door cases in hand-painted or natural finish, sized to hold what the room needs held.
Servers & Side Boards
Huntboards and servers carrying dovetailed drawers behind a scrolled or plain back.
Step Back Cupboards
An open upper case set back over a closed base, the form country kitchens have kept for two hundred years.
Windsor Seating
Side chairs, arm chairs, and settees that need share neither species nor finish with the table.
Measured Design
Furniture made for your home.
A dining table is one of the few things in a house whose dimensions are decided by the walls around it. Rather than asking you to choose the nearest listed size, we begin with your room and work back from it.
Together we settle the length and shape of the top, the species and figure of the boards, the stain or paint and how far it is carried into distressing, the seat height and upholstery of the chairs, and the hardware and interior fittings of the case pieces. Nothing is cut until all of it is agreed.
- Solid HardwoodCherry, curly maple, and oak in solid stock, with no veneer over composite anywhere in the piece.
- Handcrafted in AmericaMilled, joined, and hand-finished under one roof in Lebanon, Ohio.
- Tailored to Your RoomDimensions, species, and finish specified for your space rather than chosen from a list.
- Built for Everyday UseA finish made to be lived on, over joinery that expects to be used daily for a very long time.
Timber & Finish
The species decides how a piece ages.
Two tables of the same form will not read the same way in cherry and in curly maple. One deepens quietly for decades; the other throws light back at you as you cross the room. The finish decides only how a piece reads on the day it arrives.
Curly Maple
Tiger maple, to the people who work it. The figure runs across the grain and shifts as you move past it, so the surface is never quite the same twice in one afternoon. It is selected board by board, because figure cannot be ordered to specification.
Oak
Open-grained, hard-wearing, and honest. Oak carries the historical and charred treatments better than anything else on the rack, which is why so much of the painted work begins with it.
Graining
A grain figure worked into wet paint by hand, the way country painters once imitated timbers costlier than the ones they had.
Distressed
Wear placed where wear would honestly fall: the leading edge of a drawer, the arm of a chair, the front of a stretcher where boot heels have rested.
Historical
Color laid over a red historical ground, so the red reads through at the corners and edges as the surface is used.
Natural Historical
The same layered method over a natural ground, for a lighter and quieter result.
Nineteen stain and paint colors are held in the workshop, each of which can be laid over any of the timbers above. See all nineteen
Before You Commission
Questions we are asked most often.
Yes, and most are. Length, width, height, leg turning, and edge profile are settled per commission. Send the dimensions of the room and we will work back from the space you actually have rather than toward the nearest listed size.
Most furniture runs eight to sixteen weeks, depending on the piece and where it falls in the queue. Architectural joinery is quoted separately, after a site measure. You will have the queue position in writing at the time of the order.
Often. Photographs help more than descriptions, and a sample of the finish helps more than either. Matching a surface that has aged for thirty years is harder than matching a new one, and we will tell you honestly how close we expect to come.
Not at all. Chairs are commissioned singly or in sets, and they need share neither species nor finish with the table. A black Windsor drawn up to a natural cherry top is among the most common pairings to leave this workshop.
It is made to be lived on. The topcoat handles ordinary dining use, including water rings and warm plates, and it can be touched up in place rather than stripped back. Hand-painted surfaces are the easiest of all to repair over decades of family life.
Both. Pieces can be collected at the workshop in Lebanon, delivered locally, or crated for freight. Delivery is quoted with the commission so there is nothing to discover at the end.
Find the right furniture for your dining room.
Browse the collection here, or come to the workshop in Lebanon, where you can set the finish samples against one another, put your hands on the boards, and watch how a color behaves as the daylight moves across the room.