Custom Signs in Lindale, TX

Handmade wooden signs for Lindale — house names for new builds, market and stall signage, and family pieces for the wall.

Making a new-build house look like somebody's

A subdivision house is a good house and it looks like every other good house on the street until somebody does something about it. The cheapest thing that changes that is at the front door: a house number cut and painted properly, or a family name and an established date over the porch.

In a town where most of the housing has gone up since 2000, that is the most-asked-for sign work we get from Lindale. Send a photograph of the frontage — brick color, porch shadow and mounting height decide what will actually read from the street, and that is not something to guess at.

Markets, The Cannery and the art festival

Lindale runs a real events calendar — markets and concerts at The Cannery, an annual art festival that draws people from across East Texas, and a downtown with live music venues. Anyone trading at those needs a sign that reads from twenty feet and packs into a car.

A timber sign does something a printed banner cannot at a craft or art market, which is signal that the person behind the table makes things. That matters to the sort of customer who goes to those events on purpose.

Made in a furniture shop

These are timber pieces — real frames, real boards, joints cut rather than stapled, and a finish put on the way a table gets finished. That is why they survive on a porch through an East Texas summer and why they sit properly beside good furniture indoors.

Coat racks and hooks

The most-asked-for thing in the shop after signs, and in a new house with no entry storage it is close to essential. A stained board with cast hooks, cut to the length of wall you actually have, turns a back door into somewhere coats and bags go instead of the floor. They take lettering too.

Ordering

Send the wording, the rough size, any colors it has to sit alongside, and a photo of where it is going. You get a price before anything is cut. One sign for one room is a perfectly normal order, and Lindale is about fifty minutes from the shop.

Questions we get from Lindale