Dining Tables
Solid-wood tables with breadboard ends and quiet, honest joinery. The kind of surface a family wears in, not out.
Custom Furniture & Built-Ins · Metro Detroit
North Arbor Woodworks
Clean lines. Warm wood.
A modern joinery studio building dining tables, floating shelves, and built-ins that look like they grew there.
What we build
Made to measure, made to stay
One studio, one standard. Every piece below is a concept from our demo catalog: drawn for the room it lives in, built once, built right.
Built-In Shelving
Floor-to-ceiling library walls and alcove units, scribed to your plaster so there is no gap, no trim band-aid.
Floating Vanities & Shelves
Wall-hung pieces with hidden steel, so a two-inch slab of oak appears to hover. No brackets, no visible fixings.
Media Walls
Slatted feature walls and cabinetry that swallow the cables and let the screen sit flush in warm wood.
Wardrobes & Closets
Fitted wardrobes planned around what you actually own, with doors that close the way a good drawer should.
One-Off Commissions
The piece you cannot find anywhere: a window seat, a reading nook, a desk built into an odd corner. Bring the sketch.
The standard
The carpenter your architect recommends
A small studio can hold a higher standard, because every piece that leaves the bench carries the whole name. Three rules, no exceptions.
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Measured on siteEvery build starts with a site visit, a story pole, and your walls as they actually are. We fit the piece to the room, never the reverse.
02
Joined, not screwedDovetails, mortise and tenon, dados. Fasteners hide where they must; joinery carries the load for the next fifty years.
03
Finished by handHand-sanded through the grits, then hard-wax oil rubbed in and buffed back, so the wood still feels like wood.
The Bench
Where the work happens.
Styled with stock photography. A real SiteClaw build uses your photos.
Materials palette
Four woods, chosen slowly
We keep a short palette on purpose. Every board is hand-picked at the yard, stickered, and acclimated in the shop before a single cut.
BirchTHE HOUSE WOOD
Pale, even, and quietly Scandinavian. It takes light the way linen does, and it makes small rooms feel bigger.
White OakTHE WORKHORSE
Straight grain and real heft. It wears a matte finish beautifully and shrugs off two decades of dinner parties.
WalnutTHE ANCHOR
Deep chocolate figure for the one piece that grounds a room. We use it sparingly, which is exactly why it works.
AshTHE SLEEPER
Pale like birch but with a bold, open grain that shows its structure. Springy, strong, and criminally underrated.
How a piece happens
Sketch, sample, install
Three visits, no surprises. You approve everything you will see and touch before the first real board is cut.
Sketch
We measure your room, listen to how you live in it, and draw the piece to the millimeter. You get a dimensioned drawing, not a vibe.
Sample
Before the build, you hold a sample block: your wood, your joint, your finish. If the tone is not right, we adjust it here, where it is cheap.
Install
The piece is built complete in the shop, then installed with drop cloths down and a vacuum running. We leave the room cleaner than we found it.
A SiteClaw Signature concept
This studio is fictional. Your site doesn't have to be.
North Arbor Woodworks was designed and built by SiteClaw as a Signature-tier demo. If you want your business to feel this considered online, we should talk.