Glossary: Estimated Price

Most of the furniture pieces we offer can be ordered in a wide variety of woods, finishes and hardware choices.  The choices you make will affect the final price of the piece you're ordering.  The price shown on each item is the price for that item with the preselected options.  Changing those options will change the final price.

The price of some lumber species fluctuate considerably depending on availability.  Because we buy most of our lumber directly from a sawyer/broker we get the best price possible and can pass that savings along to you.  But if a particular species has become scarce everyone's price will go up.  When fresh supplies are harvested, the prices will come back down.  Some species, like cherry and walnut, are always in high demand and will always be more expensive than more plentiful woods like oak and maple.

Some finishes are more difficult or time consuming to apply than others, and will therefore add a higher price to a piece of furniture if selected.

Knobs & pulls for furniture are available in a vast number of finishes and metals.  Some are quite inexpensive and add little to the over-all cost of a piece of furniture.  Others, particularly those made of solid brass, silver or pewter, are so expensive that they can add hundreds of dollars to the construction cost.  Our 'Standard' selections are pieces we've found that offer a good value: a good piece of hardware for a reasonable price.

Our bookkeeping software keeps track of what we pay for materials and uses the most current prices to calculate the estimates and invoice for each piece we build.