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Longview, Texas

Custom Furniture in Longview, TX

Tables, benches, beds and shelving built to the room they are going in — for Longview houses old and new, and for the downtown apartments where nothing standard fits.

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Two kinds of Longview house, both awkward for shop-bought furniture

There is the older stock in the central neighborhoods — the Hundred Acre townsite, South Main, White City — where rooms were laid out for a different century and a standard eight-seat table will not clear the doorway, let alone the walls. And there is everything built since, out toward the newer subdivisions, where the rooms are bigger but oddly proportioned and a catalog piece leaves a foot of dead space at one end.

Then there is downtown itself, which is now a third category. Old office buildings have been rehabilitated into apartments, and those are wonderful spaces with brick walls, tall windows and floor plans that no furniture manufacturer has ever measured. Building to the room is the only thing that really works in them.

A farmhouse dining table built in the Kilgore shop, before finishingA dining table with X-shaped legs, finished in a dark stainA long console table with lower shelves, built to measure

What we build

Dining and farmhouse tables at whatever length the room will take. Benches, including the stepped and staggered kind that work in a hallway or on a porch. Bed frames. Console and sofa tables sized to the wall rather than to a catalog. Bookcases and open shelving run to the actual ceiling height. Coffee tables. Blanket chests. Children's step stools. Plant stands. Kitchen islands.

A solid timber bed frame built and stained in the shopA set of stepped benches finished in a dark stainA child's two-step stool, painted with a stained pine topTwo timber-framed crates with wire mesh panels

Longview is growing, and that shows up in the work

Eastman and Dana have anchored this economy for decades, and more has arrived since — the pair of million-square-foot distribution warehouses built for Old Navy and Gap, an announced second molecular recycling plant at Eastman's Longview site, and planned work at East Texas Regional Airport. People move here for jobs like those, buy houses, and then need the house filled.

A new arrival furnishing a whole house is a different customer from someone replacing one table, and both are welcome. If it is a larger job, say so at the start and we will plan it in stages rather than have you wait on everything at once.

There is a crew here, not one pair of hands

Grace Woodwork is several people, which matters more than it sounds. A big build does not sit waiting on one person. A set of six chairs does not take six times as long as one. A whole house worth of furniture is a job we can actually take rather than one we have to turn away.

A member of the Grace Woodwork crew working at the benchShelving units part way through construction in the shop

How a build starts

With a measurement and an idea. A photograph of something similar helps more than a description, even one off the internet — it tells us what you actually like. From there we talk timber, finish, price and timing. Nothing is cut until you have a real number. Delivery to Longview is a twenty-minute run, and we install rather than leaving it in the driveway.

Questions we get from Longview

Do you deliver to Longview?

Yes, and we install. The shop is in Kilgore, about twenty minutes down Highway 259.

Can you build to an exact size?

That is most of what this is. Bring measurements or we will come and take them ourselves.

Can you match something I already own?

Often. Bring a photo or the piece itself. An exact match to an old finish is hard to promise, but we will get close and tell you honestly how close.

What timber do you use?

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.

Custom Furniture and the towns around Longview

The shop is in Kilgore and we travel from here — as far as Lufkin when the job is worth the drive.

Send a photo and we will tell you what it needs.

A phone picture is plenty. We will tell you what it needs, what it will cost and roughly how long it will take — before you commit to anything.

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