Along with the classic hardwoods of cherry, mahogany, maple, and ash that we use in our doors and furniture, we also use a large quantity of redwood and Douglas fir. Both of these softwoods are custom cut for us from a small northern California sawmill using old-growth salvaged logs that have been down for many years. The quality and beauty of the wood is unsurpassed.

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Redwood - Ash - Cherry
Doug Fir - Walnut - Maple

All our doors have engineered cores for the stiles to insure a warp free future. This also gives us the ability to book-match the show faces for a more dramatic and balanced look. Besides the cope and stick gluing surface we also use ½ inch dowels in the rail to stile connection. Our furniture is built using classic joinery such as mortise and tenon, dovetails, and other non-mechanical means of holding one piece of wood to another.

Image on left: Core & Veneer

Most of our doors and furniture are a one-off design that exemplifies a motif within a home or business. Our exterior jambs are one-piece rabbeted with silicon weather stripping. Exterior doors jambs, especially in softwoods are 1.5" to 1.75" thick. Interior or hardwood exterior jambs are usually 1.0"-1.25". Most of our thresholds are made from genuine mahogany and cut with exterior ears or horns. We build single entry doors, with or without side-lights and transoms, French doors, all with or without glass; all glass being tempered, single glazed, thermal, beveled or art glass.

Image on left: Door Jamb

Most of our doors and cabinets are finished with Sherwin Williams 'Kemvar'TM, a durable conversion varnish. We have been using this finish for about 15 years and find it out performs all others consistently in high use situations. For doors in harsh weather situations we use Sikkens Cetol door and window finish, a flexible product that will expand and contract with the wood as it goes through seasonal changes.