Handmade in Milford, Maine
Furniture your family will argue over someday.
Porch swings, adirondack chairs, picnic tables and custom furniture by hand in a small shop in Milford, Maine — the kind of pieces that get used hard, kept for decades, and handed down.
Who's building it
One guy, one shop, one name on the back of every piece.
Hi, I'm Eric. I work out of a small shop in Milford, just outside Bangor, cutting my own lumber lists and running every joint myself. No crew, no subcontractors — if you order from me, I'm the one building it.
It's a family business in the truest sense: my wife handles the books, my kids have sanded more table legs than they'd probably admit to, and I hope to grow it slowly without ever losing that. If it stops being something I can stand behind personally, I've done it wrong.
Read our storyWhat I build
Two shops in one — outside and in.
If it's wood and it's going to get used every day for the next thirty years, it's probably something I build.
Custom outdoor furniture
Porch swings, Adirondack chairs, picnic tables and garden benches, built from cedar and pine so they hold up to a Maine winter without complaint. These are overbuilt on purpose — thicker stock, real mortise joints, hardware that won't rust out in five years. I finish every outdoor piece myself so the grain still shows through, not buried under a plastic-looking coat.
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Custom indoor furniture
Dining tables, benches, bookcases, and the one-off, slightly odd requests I actually enjoy most — a headboard built to fit an old farmhouse, a bookcase shaped around a chimney. I work in maple, cherry, oak, ash and walnut depending on what the piece calls for, and I'll tell you honestly which wood fits your budget and your room.
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Quality Guaranteed
If my name is on it, I have to mean it.
Every piece that leaves my shop has to hold up to my own scrutiny, not just yours. That means no joint that's probably fine, no finish coat rushed on a Friday afternoon — because six years from now, when your grandkid is standing on that porch swing, I still know exactly whose work it is.
- Overbuilt joinery — mortise-and-tenon and doweled joints, not pocket screws and glue
- Hand-applied finish work, done by me, coat by coat
- If anything ever comes loose or cracks, you call me and I fix it — that's the deal
Recent work
A few pieces that left the shop this year.
Every one of these started as a text with a photo or a rough sketch.
Large dining room table
Pair of handcrafted wood balloon-back chairs with footrests flanking a matching side table, set on a lakeside patio
Cedar glider swing with a built-in center console, hung from an A-frame stand beside a stone fire pit
Solid wood slatted-top dining table with matching ladder-back chairs, shown outdoors on a driveway
Two-tier white and walnut-finish side table with open shelving, styled on an area rug
Rustic wood picnic table with attached benches, set on a patio overlooking a lake at sunset with string lights
White and gray farmhouse-style coffee table with X-frame base and lower shelf, in a cozy living room with a beige sectional
White console table with butcher-block-style top and rustic crate drawers, styled as a home coffee bar
How ordering works
No portal, no account. Just texts and photos.
Here's exactly what happens from the first message to the piece sitting in your yard.
Tell me what you're picturing
A photo, a napkin sketch, or just a text describing the size and the wood you like — whatever gets the idea across.
You get a real price
I come back with an actual quote and a realistic timeline, usually within a day or two — no runaround, no "call for pricing."
A deposit holds your slot
I only run one build at a time per bench, so a deposit locks in your place in the queue.
I send photos while I build
You'll see rough lumber, glue-ups and finish coats along the way — nothing about your piece is a surprise.
Finish and delivery
Final coat goes on, and I deliver locally and put it right where you want it.
What customers say
Happy clients
Our porch swing is the best thing we've bought for this house. Eric sent us photos the whole way through, and it showed up looking better than I pictured. Twenty years from now our daughter is getting that swing.
I asked for two Adirondack chairs and got a text with a real price the same day. No runaround, no upsell. They've been out through a full winter and still look great.
He built our dining table out of cherry and it's the centerpiece of the house. The little plaque on the underside made my husband tear up, honestly.
What sold me was the communication. Eric explained the wood options in plain English and never made me feel dumb for asking. That's rare.
Schools, offices, campgrounds and churches order in multiples.
I build picnic tables and matched outdoor seating in runs of six, ten, twenty — and I quote multiples honestly, without padding the price just because the order's bigger. I'm also glad to talk with lumber yards and retailers about carrying a run of my work.
From the journal
Notes from the shop.
What I've learned running a small custom shop, and what to know before you order.
Choosing wood for a Maine porch: cedar, pine, or hardwood?
Cedar, pine and hardwood all have a place outdoors. Here's how I help customers pick — and what it actually costs over ten years.
Read the postHow a custom order actually works (start to finish)
No mystery, no surprise invoices. Here's every step from the first message to the day I deliver.
Read the postPicnic tables for schools, offices and campgrounds
What changes when a picnic table has to survive a school yard instead of a backyard — and how I quote multiples.
Read the postSend me a photo of the space and I'll tell you what I'd build.
No obligation, no sales pitch — just an honest answer about what would work and what it'd cost. Reach me at [email protected], and I answer every message myself, usually the same day.