Grace Woodwork
Will you come and measure?
Yes, and at ten miles it is easy. Most disappointments with made-to-order furniture start with a measurement taken over the phone.
Custom Furniture in Overton, TX
Tables, benches, beds and shelving built to measure for Overton — ten miles up the road, which makes measuring in person straightforward rather than an expedition.
Close enough to measure properly
Most of what goes wrong with made-to-order furniture is a measurement taken over the phone. Overton is ten miles from the shop, so we can come and measure the room ourselves, see what the piece has to live next to, and check the doorway it has to come through. That takes twenty minutes and removes almost every way a build can disappoint.
Rooms from the 1930s
A lot of Overton's housing went up in the few years after 1931, when the population went from four hundred to four and a half thousand. Houses built in that rush were built quickly and to modest dimensions — narrow hallways, small dining rooms, doorways that a modern bed frame will not clear.
That is exactly where built-to-measure earns its money. A table nine inches shorter than any standard size. A bed built to come apart so it goes up the stair. Shelving that runs to the actual ceiling rather than stopping short.
What gets built
Dining and farmhouse tables. Benches for halls and porches. Bed frames. Console and sofa tables. Bookcases and shelving. Coffee tables. Blanket chests. Children's step stools. Plant stands. Kitchen islands. Church and hall furniture, which comes up regularly in a town this size.
There is a crew here, not one pair of hands
Grace Woodwork is several people, which means a set of pieces does not take proportionally longer than one, and a job with a date on it does not sit waiting on a single person.
How a build starts
Tell us roughly what you want and we will come and measure. Then timber, finish, price and timing, and nothing is cut until you have a real number. Delivery and installation to Overton is a fifteen-minute run.
Questions we get from Overton
Can you build something that will go up an old stair?
Yes — often by building it to come apart. That is a common requirement in the 1930s houses here.
Do you do church and hall furniture?
Yes. Communion tables, lecterns, pew repairs and hall tables, quoted plainly.
What timber do you use?
Pine, oak and cedar most often, and reclaimed timber when a piece calls for it.
Custom Furniture and the towns around Overton
The shop is in Kilgore and we travel from here — as far as Lufkin when the job is worth the drive.