Grace Woodwork
Can you build to a specific size?
That is most of what this is. Bring measurements, or we will come and take them. Building to the room is the whole reason to have something made rather than bought.
Custom Furniture in Kilgore, TX
Tables, benches, beds and shelving built to the room they are going in. The shop is in Kilgore and everything is made here, to your measurements.
Old houses have awkward rooms
Kilgore's housing mostly went up between the 1930s boom and the 1960s, and houses from that stretch were not built around today's furniture. Dining rooms are narrower. Hallways are tighter. Bedrooms in the boom-era houses were sized for a different kind of life. Anyone who has tried to fit a shop-bought eight-seater into a 1940s dining room already knows the problem.
Building to the room solves it in a way that shopping around never quite does. A table nine inches shorter than any standard size, a bench that fits the bay, shelving that runs to the actual ceiling height rather than stopping awkwardly short.
What gets built here
Dining tables and farmhouse tables. Benches, including the stepped and staggered ones that suit a hallway or a porch. Bed frames. Console and sofa tables. Bookcases and open shelving. Coffee tables. Step stools for children. Plant stands. Blanket chests. Kitchen islands. If it is made of wood and it needs to fit a particular space, it is worth asking about.
There is a crew here, not one pair of hands
Grace Woodwork is several people, which matters more than it sounds. It means a large build does not sit waiting on one person, a set of six chairs does not take six times as long as one, and a kitchen's worth of work is a job we can actually take rather than one we have to turn down.
How a build starts
With a measurement and an idea. A photograph of something similar helps, even if it is off the internet — it says more about what you actually want than a description does. From there we will talk about wood, finish, what it will cost and how long it will take, and none of it starts until you have a real number.
Questions we get from Kilgore
Can you match a piece I already own?
Often, yes. Bring a photo or the piece itself and we will talk about wood, profile and finish. An exact match to an old finish is hard to promise, but we will get close and tell you honestly how close.
What woods do you work in?
Pine, oak and cedar most often, and reclaimed timber when a piece calls for it. What suits depends on the job, the room and the budget, and that is a conversation rather than a menu.
How long does a build take?
Longer than a repair, and it depends on what is already in the shop. You will get a realistic time before you commit, not an optimistic one.
Where we build and where we deliver
Everything is made in the Kilgore shop. Delivery and installation across East Texas — Longview and Gladewater are a few minutes, and we have taken work as far as Lufkin when the job justified the drive. If you are further out than that, ask anyway.
Custom Furniture in the towns round Kilgore
The shop is in Kilgore and we travel from here — as far as Lufkin when the job is worth the drive.