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Kerfhaus · Made-to-order hardwood furniture

Built to your millimeter.

Pick the species, size, edge, base, and finish — and watch the price build itself.

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No quote wall. The number stays on the screen.

A solid-wood table and chairs in warm window light, ready for dinner.
Walnut · 2 100 mm · oil — $5,240

The Kerfhaus way

Four things we hold exact.

  • The price is instant

    Configure the piece and the number updates live. No email-us wall.

  • Your millimeter, not ours

    Every piece is cut to the dimensions you set. Exactly.

  • Joinery, not fasteners

    Dovetails and mortise-and-tenon where others reach for screws.

  • Solid hardwood only

    Full boards, air-dried and hand-graded. No veneer, ever.

Five base forms

Start from a form you know.

Configured to your space — or fully commissioned from a sketch.

  • Dining table

    Seats four to ten.

    from $2,400Configure

  • Desk

    Sized to your room and your reach.

    from $1,900Configure

  • Credenza

    Doors, drawers, cable-quiet.

    from $2,800By commission

  • Shelving

    Wall-hung or standing.

    from $1,600By commission

  • Bench

    Entry, table-side, window.

    from $1,200Configure

Build & price

Spec your piece. Watch the number.

Six choices. One honest price, live the whole time.

Estimated, built & finished

depth 1 000 mm · solid white oak

Estimated price 3,260 dollars. White oak dining table · 1 800 mm · eased edge · trestle base · natural oil.

Form
Species
Length
Edge
Base
Finish

Every commission is confirmed with a dimensioned drawing before the saw starts.

White oak dining table · 1 800 mm · eased edge · trestle base · natural oil

$3,260Start this commission

The wood library

Five species, hand-graded.

Every board is bought rough, air-dried, and graded on our racks.

  • Ash

    Pale, straight, athletic.

    Janka 1,320$

  • Maple

    Bright, tight, quiet grain.

    Janka 1,450$

  • White oak

    Warm, ray-flecked, dependable.

    Janka 1,350$$

  • Cherry

    Amber now, auburn in ten years.

    Janka 950$$

  • Walnut

    Deep chocolate, open grain.

    Janka 1,010$$$

Joinery

The cut is the connection.

Wood moves with the seasons. We join it so it can.

  • FIG. 1

    Dovetail

    Corners that lock under load.

  • FIG. 2

    Mortise & tenon

    Legs that never wobble.

  • FIG. 3

    Breadboard ends

    Tops that stay flat for decades.

How a commission runs

From spec to doorstep.

  1. 01

    Configure

    Build and price it yourself, right here.

    10 minutes
  2. 02

    Confirm

    We send a dimensioned drawing to sign off.

    day 2–3
  3. 03

    Build

    One maker owns your piece, start to finish.

    weeks 2–6
  4. 04

    Deliver

    Blanket-wrapped, placed, and leveled in your room.

    weeks 6–8
Woodworking hand tools laid out on a workbench in the Kerfhaus shop.

The workshop

Sawdust, kept honest.

Every Kerfhaus piece is milled, joined, and finished under one roof in Tacoma.

  • Est. 2019
  • One maker per piece
  • Visitors welcome Fridays

Recent builds

Leaving the shop lately.

  • A long white-oak dining table set in an airy, daylit room.
    The Reyes tableWhite oak · 2 400 × 1 000 mm · matte
  • A walnut lounge chair with worn leather in a warm corner.
    Lounge chair, one-offWalnut · commission · oil
  • A cherry credenza styled against a soft neutral wall.
    Hallway credenzaCherry · 1 800 × 450 mm · satin
  • An ash sideboard anchoring a bright modern living room.
    Sideboard, fit-out lot 2Ash · fit-out · matte
  • A maple hall chair standing alone against a plain plaster wall.
    Hall chairMaple · commission · oil
  • A walnut shelving wall composed floor to ceiling in a living room.
    Shelving wallWalnut · 2 100 × 2 400 mm · oil
Hands rubbing natural oil into a white-oak tabletop in the Kerfhaus finishing room.

The finishing room

Oil, wax, and patience.

Every surface leaves the shop hand-finished — coats rubbed in one at a time, cured slow, buffed out to the touch.

  • Three coats, hand-rubbed
  • Cured, never rushed
  • Repairable for life
A café floor set with wooden tables, morning light through the front glass.

Commercial fit-outs

Tables that survive the lunch rush.

Cafés, offices, and shops — batch-built to one grade, on one timeline.

  • Cafés, shops, studios
  • Batch builds, one grade
  • We site-measure
  • Spec pack for your architect
Start a fit-out
Sunlight falling through a stand of tall, straight hardwood trees.

Sourcing

Good wood, on purpose.

Domestic hardwood from managed forests, air-dried near the shop.

  • Domestic hardwood only
  • Air-dried, then kiln-checked
  • Offcuts become benches
KERFHAUSTACOMA, WANO. 0412 · WALNUT · 2026BUILT BY E. MARSH

The plate

Signed, dated, guaranteed.

Every piece leaves with a maker's plate — and a lifetime structural guarantee.

  • Lifetime structural guarantee
  • Refinishing for life, at cost
  • Repairs seen within 14 days

Questions, specced

Pick a question like an option.

Pick a question
Q1

How long until it's in my room?

Six to eight weeks from the signed drawing. Batch fit-outs are scheduled per run.

Rough-sawn hardwood boards stickered on drying racks in the Kerfhaus timber loft.

The timber loft

Good boards wait their turn.

Rough lumber rests on our racks until the moisture meter — not the calendar — says it's ready for the saw.

  • Air-dried on site
  • Graded twice
  • Milled to order

The makers

The hands behind the work.

Two people build everything that leaves this shop. One of them signs your plate.

  • Etta Marsh at her bench in the Kerfhaus shop, plane in hand.

    Founder · Lead maker

    Etta Marsh

    Opened the shop in 2019 with one bench, a planer, and a stubborn opinion about dovetails. Every plate stamped E. Marsh crossed her bench first.

    AT THE BENCH SINCE 2004

  • Noah Brandt in the Kerfhaus mill room, checking a board for grain.

    Joiner · Finisher

    Noah Brandt

    Runs the mill room and the drying racks. If your piece is oiled, his hands did it — three coats, no shortcuts.

    MILL & FINISH · SINCE 2021

The Hardwood Buyer's Field Manual — a hardcover field manual.

EBOOK · 48 PP · PDF

Free field manual

The Hardwood Buyer's
Field Manual

Species, joinery and finish, set down plainly — how to spec a piece that outlives you. We wrote the reference we wish every buyer had before they ordered, care schedules and all.

  • 01Reading grain, figure & movement
  • 02Species by use — what to spec, where
  • 03Joinery that lasts generations
  • 04Finish choices & sheen, decoded
  • 05Care schedules for the first ten years

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The floor, as drawn

Visit / start

Come knock on the wood.

  • 14 Kerf Lane, Tacoma, WA
  • Wed–Sat · 9–5
  • (253) 555-0148
  • shop@kerfhaus.com
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