Custom freestanding furniture, architectural built-ins, and heirloom kitchen millwork shaped from single-flitch kiln-dried North American hardwoods. Zero particleboard, zero veneers, zero shortcuts.
Every commission is drafted in full-scale shop drawings before a single board touches the jointer.
Bookmatched dining tables, tambour credenzas, low-profile platform beds, and sculptural writing desks joined with exposed wedged tenons and hand-cut dovetails.
Floor-to-ceiling library walls, rolling brass-rail ladders, fireside alcoves, and mudroom lockers hand-scribed directly to historic plaster or timber walls.
Furniture-grade freestanding chef's islands, continuous-grain rift white oak cabinet fronts, end-grain maple butcher blocks, and walk-in larder pantries.
Sympathetic structural stabilization, Dutchman butterfly key stabilization for split slabs, hide-glue joint re-assembly, and French polish or raw oil refinishing.
Milled from a single storm-felled Oregon black walnut log air-dried for 38 months. The two bookmatched boards are locked across the center seam with three hand-chiseled African ebony butterfly keys and supported on a knock-down tusk-tenon trestle base.
You never guess where your commission stands. Every build follows five documented milestones with shop photos sent at each stage.
We meet in the shop or at your site, measure doorways and light angles, and sketch initial proportions by hand on vellum.
You approve 1:10 orthographic blueprints and personally hand-pick sequential rough-sawn boards from our timber racks.
Boards are rough-milled, stickered to rest, then joined with hand-fit mortise-and-tenon, dovetails, and splined miters.
Surfaces are finished with a smoothing plane and cabinet scraper before receiving five coats of zero-VOC raw tung oil.
The makers who built your piece deliver, level, and scribe-fit it in your home, complete with a stamped care kit.
We source exclusively from FSC-certified Pacific Northwest mills and urban salvage sawyers. Hover any sample card to inspect its shop characteristics.
Rich chocolate heartwood with purple undertones; air-dried unsteamed to preserve creamy sapwood contrast.
Dramatic silver medullary ray fleck and exceptional dimensional stability for architectural cabinetry.
Satin-smooth closed grain that darkens in natural sunlight to a deep burnished auburn within six months.
Dense ivory timber ideal for end-grain butcher islands, dovetailed drawer sides, and contrast wedges.
Resawn from century-old Oregon cannery beams with 30+ growth rings per inch and historic bolt character.
Custom knife hinges, turned pulls, and butterfly keys machined in-house and left unlacquered to age naturally.
“When Ezra and Maeve carried our 9-foot walnut table into the dining room, the smell of raw tung oil and beeswax filled the whole house. Every guest runs their fingers underneath the chamfered edge to feel the sliding dovetail battens. It is the undisputed anchor of our home.”
“As an architect, I am ruthless about reveal tolerances. Our 1912 Craftsman walls were out of plumb by nearly an inch, yet Grain & Groove hand-scribed the quarter-sawn white oak bookcases so tightly you couldn't slip a business card between the stile and the plaster.”
“We don’t build furniture to fill rooms. We build pieces that earn their place over decades — acquiring character from every meal, every book, and every generation that gathers around them.”— EZRA VANCE, FOUNDER & MASTER CABINETMAKER
Send us your rough dimensions or architectural floor plan. We respond within two studio days with timber recommendations, joinery notes, and a transparent estimate.
