Built at our bench.Fitted by the handsthat made it.
Bookcases, kitchens, staircases, closets and solid-wood tables for homes around Springfield and Dayton. Three of us, one workshop on Hartwood Lane, and a written price before a single board is cut.
- Free measure & quote visit
- Every price in writing
- Licensed & insured
Carpentry that's made, not bought.
Joinery is the old word for it. Instead of screwing store-bought boxes to the wall, we cut the joints ourselves, in our own shop: dovetails, mortise and tenon, solid face frames. Then we bring the finished pieces to your house and fit them to your walls, which are never quite straight.
- Solid hardwood frames and doors. Cabinet-grade plywood boxes, never particleboard.
- Scribed to your walls, floors and ceilings on site, so there are no filler strips or caulk gaps.
- Drawn, made and fitted by the same two or three people. You'll know their names.
Get a ballpark
in thirty seconds.
Pick the piece, roughly how big, and what you'd like on it. You'll get the kind of range we'd say out loud standing in your living room. The real price comes in writing, after a free visit.
1 Pick the piece
2 Size and finish
How wide is the wall?
Finish
3 Anything else on it?
Bookcase wall
Most jobs like this land around
$2,800–$3,800
This is a ballpark, not a quote. Your walls, the wood and the details move the number. The real price comes in writing after a free visit: we measure, draw it, and price it to the dollar before anything is made. Built from our from-price of $2,800.
Book my free visitWe'll keep what you picked on the contact page, so you can read it out when you call.
You know the price
at step three.
No deposit to talk, no number that changes once we're in. Here's the whole thing, in order.
- 01
We visit
Free. We measure, look at the walls and floors, and listen to what you want.
- 02
We draw it
A scaled drawing of your piece, in your room. You change it until it's right.
- 03
Quote in writing
One fixed price, itemized. It doesn't move unless you change the drawing.
- 04
Made in our shop
Cut, joined and finished at our benches in Springfield. Visit and see it.
- 05
Fitted by us
The same people scribe it to your walls, fit the doors and sweep up.
“We gave them a crooked 1920s wall and a vague idea. They came back with a drawing, a price on one page, and six weeks later a bookcase wall that looks like it was built with the house. Not one gap against the plaster.”
“The window seat drawers glide like they're on runners, and they're not. Solid oak, dovetailed. The kids fight over who gets to sit there.”
“The quote came in writing and the final bill matched it to the dollar. They swept up every evening before they left.”
“Our stair was glued-down carpet and a wobbly rail. Now it's white oak treads and a handrail you actually want to hold.”
Example reviews on an example site.
Recent pieces.
Sixteen photos from houses around Springfield, Dayton and Yellow Springs, and from the shop itself. See all our work
Come and see the shop.
The workshop is on Hartwood Lane, Springfield. Visits are by appointment so there's someone at the bench to show you around: the timber rack, work in progress, and the finishes we'd use on yours.