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The Carolina WoodLab

We design and create custom furniture and woodcraft for your home or business.

03/31/2026

The old growth pine coffee table is complete! What an interesting build - working with softwood is so different than working with hardwood. I love the history of this lumber, though! This tree most likely started growing in before the Declaration of Independence was signed!

02/25/2026

Got the old growth pine panel glued up and in clamps. The color on this is pretty nice - nothing like the pine you get at big box stores today!

02/23/2026

Exciting new project with some old growth pine. Taking the milling process slow - but it sure smells nice!

01/26/2026

The sideboard is starting to come together. It’s slowly getting decorated - what to do with the big wall space over it (floating shelves? gallery wall? who knows!). There is functionality here - we needed a space to store our dog’s food container, so this works very nicely. If you’re curious, again, the color is Shade-Grown by . For the prints: Left - NC Topographic 3D Relief Map from , Middle - “Jesus Stills the Sea” by , and Right - Custom sketch of past and present doggos by .

01/21/2026

Some very immediate post-install pics of the built-in sideboard (finished install this morning). I’ll make sure to post some more photos once it’s decorated (luckily this one is in my own home so I get to use it!)
Here’s the info: Color: Shade-Grown by , Paint: Breakthrough! By , Top: Walnut from Tennessee (thanks !), Bowties and NC Inlay: , Top and Drawer Box Finish: Enduro-Var II in Satin (Top) and Enduro Clear in Gloss (Drawers) by . Handles are from Amazon. Door and Drawer Hardware: . More finished photos to come!

01/14/2026

Getting prepped up for paint. Will go with Shade-Grown by . Should be ready to start spraying tomorrow morning!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from The Carolina WoodLab!

08/25/2025

Doors are fit on the TV Console - took a little bit of work getting things to square up - but we’re there. Next up is putting c-channel on the backside of the doors so we can do what we can to avoid the ol’ potato chip.

08/18/2025

Foreground: Shoe bench in ash - currently clamped. Behind it: the pieces of a TV console in ash. MCM-inspired. Clean lines, simple, yet sturdy.

12/26/2024

Final project of 2024! This one took a long time to finish, but it’s a bedroom dresser and bedside table pair for a client in Emerald Isle, NC. The cabinet boxes are made from solid curly maple and the drawer fronts are Birdseye maple. Finished with Enduro-Var II sprayed with an HVLP system. Lumber is sourced from . Drawer slides are undermount slides. K***s are chosen by the client. Dovetails on the drawer boxes completed using .usa.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas from The Carolina WoodLab!

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Durham, NC
27701, 27702, 27703, 27704, 27705, 27706, 27707, 27708, 27709, 27710, 27711, 277

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http://thecarolinawoodlab.com/

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