Custom furniture · Lancaster, PA

Built with the tree, not against it.

Custom dining tables, built-in cabinetry, live edge furniture and restoration, made to order in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Every slab has a direction. We read the grain run, the figure and the natural edge before a single cut is made, then draw the piece around what the board already is.

Live-edge walnut dining tabletop against a pale ground

Live edge walnut on a blackened steel base

What we build

Built to order,
from the board up.

Most commissions start with a room and a rough idea of size. This is what we take on.

Custom dining tables

One slab, one table. We choose the board for grain run and figure, then let the natural edge set the shape and the size.

Live edge furniture

Benches, consoles, coffee tables. The waney edge stays on, and the base is built to fit underneath it.

Built-in cabinetry

Walls, alcoves, awkward corners. Measured in the room and fitted to it, rather than the room being fitted to the cabinet.

Restoration

Loose joints, tired finishes, a table that has already earned its place in the house. We bring it back to working order.

Interior design consultation

Bring us the room and a rough idea. We’ll talk wood, scale and light before anything is drawn.

Not sure which of these you need yet?

Tell us about the room

How it goes

From slab
to table.

Four steps, and you see the wood before it becomes anything at all.

Send us your space

The room, a rough size, and anything you have been looking at. A photo of the space helps more than a description.

We pick the slab

You see the board before it is cut: its width, its figure, and where the natural edge runs.

Draw the piece

A drawing of the top, the base and the fit, so you know what you are getting before we start.

Built and finished

Cut, joined and finished by hand, then brought into the room it was made for.

Selected work

The grain decides
the shape.

Live edge tops, built-ins and pieces brought back into service. The detail is the whole point.

Close crop of the live edge and end grain of a walnut slab — Live edge, left on

Built-in white oak cabinetry fitted into a bright alcove — Built-in, fitted to the alcove

A half-restored antique wooden table in a workshop — Restoration, in progress

Every piece starts as a board on the rack and ends in somebody’s dining room.

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Hands guiding a hand plane along a wide slab in the workshop — In the shop, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

In the shop

Built in Lancaster, one board at a time.

Hearth & Grain Woodworks is a custom furniture shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, building dining tables, cabinetry, live edge pieces and restorations to order.

We work from the board up. The grain run tells us which way a top wants to sit, the natural edge tells us where it ends, and the base is drawn last so it holds the piece without arguing with it.

Start a commission

Request a quote

Tell us about
the room.

A few details are enough to start. Tell us the space and roughly what should fill it.