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Custom furniture · Asheville, NC

Your space, drawn to fit.

Custom built-ins, tables, and refinishing in Asheville — measured in your room, drawn on paper, built in the workshop.

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Built-ins Dining tables Reclaimed benches Refinishing Delivery
WALL WIDTH CEILING HEIGHT pull-out tray scribed to the wall measure twice —
Elevation — built-in wall unit Sheet 01 · Scale to fit
Drawing before building — every project starts here.
Blueprint drawing on a workbench with a teal pencil and a tape measure resting on it
Workshop bench, Asheville — drawing and measure before any board is cut.

“We start with wall width, ceiling height, outlets and the things you actually keep in the room.”

How every project starts

The process

Five phases, from first sketch to final screw.

You always know which phase your piece is in and what happens next. Drawings come before cutting, and nothing is installed until it has been dry-fitted in the shop.

Phase 01

Consult — we start in your room

A design consult at your place, tape measure in hand. We look at how the space is used, where the light lands, and what has to stay.

  • Wall widths, ceiling heights and floor levels
  • Outlets, vents, radiators and door swings
  • What you need to store, seat or display
Craftsperson measuring a wall in a bright empty room with a tape measure
Consult visitMeasurements & notes

Phase 02

Design — you see it before we cut

Scaled drawings of the piece in your room, with the joinery and materials marked. Finish samples come with us so you can hold them against your own light.

  • Elevations and plan views, drawn to scale
  • Material and finish options, shown in your space
  • Revisions until the drawing is right
reclaimed oak teal midnight FINISH SAMPLES — CHOSEN IN YOUR LIGHT bring these to the room …
Design phaseDrawings & finishes

Phase 03

Build — milled, cut and dry-fitted

The workshop phase. Reclaimed boards are cleaned up and milled, joinery is cut, and the whole piece is assembled once on the bench before it ever reaches your wall.

  • Reclaimed wood milled and matched board by board
  • Joinery cut and fitted by hand
  • Dry assembly, then sanding and finishing
Furniture maker planing a reclaimed board in a workshop, sawdust in the light
WorkshopMilling reclaimed boards

Phase 04

Install — fitted, scribed, finished in place

Built-ins arrive in sections and go in level and plumb. Edges are scribed to your walls, fronts are aligned, and the last coat is applied after fitting where it's needed.

  • Level, plumb and scribed to uneven walls
  • Fronts, drawers and doors adjusted on site
  • Delivered across Asheville and the surrounding area
Fitting a wooden built-in cabinet against a wall, hands holding a spirit level
Install dayLevel, plumb, aligned

Phase 05

Enjoy — built to be lived on and refinished

A dining table that gets used every night, a bench that takes wet coats, shelves that hold real books. When it needs care years from now, we refinish it rather than replace it.

  • Care notes for solid wood and oiled finishes
  • Refinishing for pieces worth keeping
  • Repair and adjustment down the line
Custom solid wood dining table in a sunlit Asheville home, set for a meal
Finished pieceEveryday use
PROUD 12MM hand-cut tails saw to the line, dry-fit twice JOINT DETAIL — DRAWER CORNER
Detail drawing — drawer corner

Joinery

Every joint is drawn before it is cut.

Drawings carry the details that make a piece hold up: how a drawer runs, how a table top is allowed to move, how a shelf is fixed so it can be taken out again. It is slower on paper and faster in the shop.

  • 01
    Interlocking joinery Drawer corners and frame joints cut to interlock, so a piece stays tight as the seasons move.
  • 02
    Movement allowance Solid tabletops and panels are detailed with room to move — no splitting, no rattling.
  • 03
    Serviceable connections Fixings drawn so a shelf or a front can come off for repair or refinishing later.

Materials

The wood comes first, then the drawing.

Reclaimed stock is what we reach for when a piece should look like it has always been in the room. Where a top needs to be flat, straight and quiet, we use solid hardwood instead.

Reclaimed

Reclaimed wood, board by board

Salvaged boards and beams, cleaned up and milled in the workshop — used for benches, built-in faces and shelves with history in them.

Hardwood

Solid tabletops

Dining tables built from solid stock, sized to your room and to how many people actually sit down at it.

Finish

Finishes you can hold

Samples travel to the design consult so you can see colour and sheen against your own walls and windows before anything is made.

Repair

Built to be refinished

We refinish existing furniture as well as new work — pieces worth keeping, kept in use rather than replaced.

Request a measure

Tell us about the space.

Send a few details and we will get back to you to set up a measure and design consult — in your room, tape measure in hand, with samples in the bag.

  • You send the basics. The room, roughly what you want, and how to reach you.
  • We arrange a measure. A visit to your place to take real numbers and talk through options.
  • You get drawings. Scaled drawings and finish samples, before any wood is cut.
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Two minutes to fill in. No obligation — the measure is where every project starts.
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