Custom Signs in Henderson, TX

Handmade wooden signs for Henderson — shopfront signage that suits a National Register downtown, and family pieces for the house.

A downtown where signage has to earn its place

Henderson's commercial historic district went onto the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The buildings are ornate brick from the decades after the 1860 fire, with colorful canvas awnings shading the pavement, and the shops beneath them are antique dealers, clothing stores and restaurants.

A district like that is unforgiving of cheap signage. A printed panel screwed to a nineteenth-century frontage looks exactly like what it is, and it cheapens the building as well as the business. A painted timber board with real depth and grain belongs there, because it is made the same way the building was.

Made in a furniture shop

These are timber pieces, not printing. Real frames, real boards, joints cut rather than stapled, and a finish applied the way a table gets finished. That is why they survive outdoors through an East Texas summer, and why they sit properly against old brick instead of floating in front of it.

Historic markers and the wording that goes with them

A town with nineteen historical markers has a lot of people who care what is written on a wall. Alongside shop signage the regular requests here are family names and established dates, house numbers for older homes, scripture, and memorial pieces for a family place — the kind of thing that gets made once and stays up for decades.

Those are worth doing properly in timber rather than in something that will fade in three summers. Tell us where it is going and how exposed it is, and it gets built for that.

Coat racks and hooks

A close cousin of the sign work and one of the most-asked-for things in the shop. A stained board with cast hooks, cut to the length of wall you have, sorts out a back door or a mudroom that never had anywhere to hang anything. They take lettering too, which makes them a sign and a coat rack at once.

Ordering one from Henderson

Send the wording, the rough size and any colors it has to live alongside. A photograph of the wall or the shopfront tells us more than a description does — particularly on an old building, where the brick color and the awning decide what will read from across the street. You get a price before anything is cut, and Henderson is about twenty-five minutes from the shop.

Questions we get from Henderson