Commissions
A commission is a piece designed with you, for your room and your uses — sometimes for your own tree. Here is exactly how it goes, so nothing about the process is a surprise:
1We talk. You tell me what the piece is for, where it will live, and what it needs to do. Photos of the room help more than you'd think.
2I draw it. You get dimensioned drawings and a fixed price, with wood, joinery and finish spelled out. We revise until it's right; the drawings cost nothing.
3Half down holds your place in the schedule, and I buy the wood the week your deposit lands. The number doesn't move after this. If we stop before the wood is bought, the deposit comes back whole; after that, it comes back less the lumber.
4I build, and you see it happen, with photos from the bench at every stage. Most pieces deliver two to four months after the deposit; I'll tell you where you sit in the queue.
5The balance settles when the piece is done and you've seen it. Then it's delivered, locally by me, farther by blanket-wrapped insured freight.
What a commission costs
Most pieces land between $2,000 and $6,000, depending on size, wood, and complexity. Dining tables run from $3,200, casework from $2,400, chairs from $780, side tables from $680. What moves the number is knowable up front: the species, the joinery, the finish, the hardware. It's all on the drawing before you commit a dollar.
The warranty
If a joint ever fails, I fix it. Not for a year — ever. Furniture built this way outlasts its maker, and it should never need fine print to say so.