Woods & Finishes Our products are available with a variety of wood species to choose from and are handcrafted from responsibly sourced furniture grade lumber with high-quality finishes, including cherry, hard maple, walnut, red oak, and quarter-sawn white oak. Wood options may be limited based on the individual product. We invite you to explore the wood options below, to find what works best for you and your decor. Click on any image below to see it larger.Please note that the color samples below, can vary depending on your monitor and should only be used to approximate the final finish color. Please use these images for reference only as we cannot be held responsible for your color selection based on what you see or print out here. Actual samples can be purchased to make a more accurate match firsthand. Purchase Finish Samples HereOur descriptions below refer to sapwood and heartwood. The sapwood is the wood closest to the bark of a tree. It is often a lighter tone than the heartwood, which is the wood closest to the center of the tree. When a board is cut out of a tree, it may contain both heartwood and sapwood. Most lumber we use contains very little sapwood, though cherry and quarter sawn white oak may have more. Quarter Sawn White Oak The sapwood is light-colored and the heartwood is light-to-dark brown. White oak is mostly straight-grained with a medium-to-coarse texture. Having longer rays than red oak, white oak has more figuring, especially when it is quarter sawn. Our finishing process allows us to enhance the distinctive ray and fleck figuring that Quarter Sawn White Oak has to offer. Quarter Sawn White Oak The sapwood is light-colored and the heartwood is light-to-dark brown. White oak is mostly straight-grained with a medium-to-coarse texture. Having longer rays than red oak, white oak has more figuring, especially when it is quarter sawn. Our finishing process allows us to enhance the distinctive ray and fleck figuring that Quarter Sawn White Oak has to offer. Red Oak Red oak has white to light brown sapwood of and the heartwood is a pinkish-reddish brown. The wood is similar in general appearance to white oak, but with a slightly less-pronounced figuring due to the smaller rays. The wood is mostly straight-grained, with a coarse texture. Oak takes light and dark colored stains well, the wavy grain patterns will stain darker than the heartwood. Cherry The heartwood of cherry varies from rich red to reddish brown and will darken with age and on exposure to light. In contrast, the sapwood is creamy white. The wood has a straight-grain, fine, uniform texture. Cherry absorbs stains well, but can look blotchy with darker colors. Regardless of the stain used, it will have reddish-brown hue. Cherry The heartwood of cherry varies from rich red to reddish brown and will darken with age and on exposure to light. In contrast, the sapwood is creamy white. The wood has a straight-grain, fine, uniform texture. Cherry absorbs stains well, but can look blotchy with darker colors. Regardless of the stain used, it will have reddish-brown hue.
