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I run my business from home as I'm a one-man workshop.  My workshop is located in the garage behind my house,  which is a converted horse barn built circa 1880.   Later when the farm properties were subdivided and my little wartime house was built,  it was converted into a garage.  When my partner and I bought this house 11 years ago we converted the garage into a finished workshop.   During the renos we actually discovered parts of the old barn doors behind the walls next to the modern garage door.  In this cozy heated space I've built hundreds of chairs...

Yes I do make kid's rockers too!  These are adorable and sized just right for your toddler up to about 10 years of age or so.  These chairs are very well-built and can hold up to 200lbs.           These chairs are 3/4 versions of my adult rockers.  They are offered in Naptime or Manhattan styles with a variety of fabrics.     These chairs have a seat that measures about 15" square.  The seat, back and arms are well-padded for comfort. There are  no sharp edges anywhere.   What child wouldn't want their very own,  sized-to-fit chair? 

How it's made: a premium seat frame. These are built from high-quality plywood (you will also hear it referred to by some as "engineered" wood). I tap oak hardwood dowels into the plywood and screw into these. Learned this technique years ago from a woodworking magazine and it works very well, makes a very solid joint. In addition to this, I add hardwood corner braces, glued and screwed into place for rock-solid construction. No creaking or squeaking of these frames! What you will find with much of today's furniture is that it is simply stapled together. This is not a...

For 20 years I've been designing and building rockers, gliders, ottomans and accessories.  They are all made right here in Belleville, Ontario Canada.   Over the years my customers have expressed appreciation for this fact.  There's always been a solid core of people who want made in Canada products - the pandemic buying surge was huge for me as  customer demand for my chairs reached all time highs.  This seems to have taken on even more importance with recent events.  When you buy Canadian-owned and Canadian-made,  you support this country's economy which has a huge ripple effect,  even for a one-man...

Here I am making a back frame.   These are the same for all my chairs,  this one's slated for a Chelsea model.  I put a cross brace in the frame about a third of the way down from the top,  and it has a nice curve cut into into it.  This brace is about where your upper back or shoulder blades rest against the back when you are sitting in the chair,  and the curve allows the upholstery to gently flex but also support your back in this place.  So when you are sitting in my chairs this design tends...