I like Wood
"I like wood".....it's simple, straight forward, and encompasses so much about us in just 3 words.
I like how Mother Nature makes me smile nearly every day when I'm handling or shaping some of her delightful wood creations.
I like how she provides us with a sustainable material in trees. Trees that provide food and shelter for Her critters and shade for a picnic.
I like how we can wait for nature to tell us when it's time for a tree to be harvested. We haul trees out the woods after they've fallen or about to fall. Sustainably harvested.
I like how we take a tree to our friend's sawmill for milling.
I like how our wood then sits in our lumber yard for 1-3 years before being brought into our drying kiln.
I like how we then mate each bit of wood with the right project to highlight the beauty of the tree, a tree that I last saw standing many years ago.
I like the smells and textures of the wood as we shape it for a project.
I like wood.
Custom Furniture Creations became a real thing over 10 years ago when I started to wind down my 20 years in the corporate world and transition into the 2nd act of my life as a starving artist of wood. It was the perfect choice. I wake up every morning anxious to get busy making sawdust in our studio.
As we look to double the size of this studio in the very near future and open an 2nd studio, we are very conscious that we want to get no bigger less we lose the daily interaction with the wood we so much enjoy.
