Free-Standing Furniture

How it helps you

The benefit of free-standing custom furniture is that it can be taken with you if you move. A free-standing piece of furniture is more personal as I design it to meet your needs for the right look, feel and functionality. It can also be more aesthetically pleasing to the eye, as each piece typically shows on three sides. I've also created pieces that float in a room, finished on all sides. Whatever your needs are in a free-standing piece of furniture, I design each piece so it can be used almost anywhere you decide to live, work, or play. Every once in awhile, I get a call from one of my clients expressing their gratitude in the versatility of a free-standing piece I designed and created for them.

 Free-Standing Entertainment Center with lighted display.
Made of West African Sapele and Honduras Mahogany.

Freestanding library cabinets that were built to match an American antique desk.
Made of quarter sawn white oak.

Dining room table with benches.
The table has two inset drawers that slide out through the skirt and are thirty two inches deep on full extension slides. They store table linens. Table can be disassembled and is made of solid Honduras Mahogany. Benches are made of solid Honduras Mahogany and Eastern Maple.

California King size bed.
Can be used with or without a box spring. Made of Maple Apple Plywood. This bed is built strong enough that it could support the Honda Civic you see parked in the corner.

Entertainment Credenza made of Cherry

Drawers for storage of CD's and DVD's.  Components on roll out shelves for ease of access to wiring.

Close up of base moulding cut from one long piece so wood grain flows around corners.

Close up of solid Cherry border around top cut from one long piece so wood grain flows around corners.

Drawers are on full extension slides for full access of contents. Partitions slide out in order to use drawer for other purposes.

Platform Bed with drawers and cabinet storage below.

Made of Red Oak

Flip down doors provide storage in platform base on left side.

Large drawers provide storage in platform base on right side.

The headboard is made from a rough slab of Red Oak lumber. It looks very rough, but in fact is sanded and rubbed out with natural oil to an exceptionally smooth surface. The floating shelf is strong enough to support a child, if one decides to sit on it.

Shaker style Credenza made of Plain Sliced and Rift Red Oak.

This piece is finished on the back as well which allows it to float in a room.

Walnut and Lacewood lumber in the rough ready to mill and then build a Foyer table.

Jack Lelah is seen here straight lining a Lacewood board on the table saw getting it ready for cutting blanks in order to make up the legs of the table. Jack's shop is nestled in the central mountains of California less than two hours outside of Los Angeles.

Here Jack is figuring out the placement of the legs on the bottom side of the top. 

This table is designed so it can come apart. Here Jack is seen boring holes in the bottom edge of the legs to accept hanging bolts, that allow legs to be blind bolted to the base. Nuts and washers pull legs to the base. These nuts can always be tightened so this piece of furniture will always remain secure.

The legs are spread apart to let light through, and there is enough space that one can run their hands upon the exceptionally smooth edges.

This picture shows the legs and base complete and hand rubbed with Jack's special finish. Notice how clean and tight the legs meet the base. There is no black line of space where the two come together. Again the hanging bolts, nuts, and washers provide this beautiful union.

All the components that make up this table, are made up of boards that are joined together using a Finger Joint, and are then glued and clamped. This picture shows a close up of the Finger Joint on the edge of a leg. The inside curve of the leg elongates the detail of the Finger Joint. It is an exaggerated view of a beautiful detail.

As you will notice, the furniture I create is finished just as smooth and beautiful underneath. Notice the reflection of the shoulder bolt heads in the underside of the top. 

Brass plaques with my signature accompany each piece that I create, whether free standing or built in.  

This picture shows a close up of the Finger Joint detail on the edge of the top.

The top on this table is finished with eight coats of Satin Polyurethane, and then rubbed out with Pumice and Rottenstone, and then it is finally French Polished. The look and the feel are exquisite, and I will admit, the picture does not do this piece the justice it deserves.

Trust in precision millwork from a custom
woodwork expert in Frazier Park, California.

Fine woodworking, Entertainment center furniture, Kitchen cabinets, CA