Open Door Furniture

Open Door Furniture This page tells the story of how fine, hand crafted furniture is made at Open Door Furniture. We are excited to share our passion and work with you.

Our goal at Open Door Furniture is to create beautiful products that are as functional and durable as they are artistic. We believe in making the best possible products which starts with the best raw materials and building practices. Our furniture is composed of gorgeous domestic hardwoods like Walnut, Maple and Redgum. A combination of traditional and modern building techniques ensures that if ca

red for, our products will last a a couple lifetimes. We are in the process of completing the final products in the Origins collection and website where all of those products will live. Thank you for checking us out!

Some detail shots of the table we posted yesterday.  .    
08/13/2021

Some detail shots of the table we posted yesterday.



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It's interesting how things change as your business gets older.  When I started out, I wouldn't have thought we would be...
08/12/2021

It's interesting how things change as your business gets older.  When I started out, I wouldn't have thought we would be building anything close to a classic style table like this.  I was like "contemporary all the way!"  But as time goes on, we started branching out.  I was listening to .moderncraftsman podcast and they talked about different reasons that branching out happens in business.  For us, it was definitely a necessity in the beginning.  I started building what I thought people wanted.  That didn't go well.  Then we started building what other people wanted and that went better.  Now we do alot of everything.  Some jobs we build exactly what the client wants.  Lots of jobs we provide feedback on design for either aesthetic or structural purposes and now sometimes people choose from some of our old designs or just let us dream up new ones.  

The benefit of all this is that it has helped push our shop's capabilities.  Building this piece of furniture was certainly intimidating when we started but we learned so much and since we built this, have really begun to appreciate classic pieces.  Especially when I think about all of the fancy tools we have access to today.  There are pieces that I see in old books that were truly built by hand and I still don't know how we would build them with all the access to machinery that I have.  It just teaches me that I have a lifetime left of learning which is one of the things I love most about what I do.  

And if you are wondering who is responsible for this beautiful room, it is the oh so talented



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Here's why I haven't posted in 7 months. Time to be vulnerable. Social media just started to depress me. Anytime I wou...
01/30/2019

Here's why I haven't posted in 7 months. Time to be vulnerable. Social media just started to depress me. Anytime I would go on, I would feel like I wasn't doing enough with my life.
It didn't matter what I was looking at. I would create this narritive in mind about how that person was just better than me. A better builder, a better person, a better Dad...etc. So I finally just took a break from it all together.
After thinking about why this happens, I think one of the biggest reasons is that content is often just a snap shot of the best parts of life without the reality of the mediocrity or crappy stuff in between. I certainly have been guilty of creating a rose colored picture on my social. When in reality, building a business is the hardest thing I have ever done. I make mistakes when I build, I get stressed like crazy and I wonder daily how everything is going to turn out with my business.
Rather than delete insta, I want to start trying to be honest in my posts and about my journey. To show the good and the bad as I continue to build my company. My hope is twofold: First that if anyone following me deals with the same insta depression, my account going forward will be a reminder that things are not always perfect. Second, that people would then be able to celebrate with me in my highs because they have been along for the lows.
So here's to a new start...here are some pics that would have never seen the light of day in the past. Scroll to the second pic and you will see I made some big mistakes on this piece and had to start over on multiple parts of it. It was done during an insanely busy time. I was working late and not sleeping enough and made some stupid mental errors. The base didn't come out square and then I cut the doors to short. Painful.
The final piece came out awesome and is one of my favorites that we have built and I will share those photos too. But the point is that it didn't come without mistakes, heart ache, and self doubt.


@ San Diego, California

What a BIG week! So happy and humbled to be mentioned in an article of ! It is an interview of about the amazing 12k ...
07/01/2018

What a BIG week! So happy and humbled to be mentioned in an article of ! It is an interview of about the amazing 12k SQ foot home they they completed. We were fortunate to build several pieces for this home. Thank you so much to Tracy and for giving us the opportunity to work on this home. We also worked a ton with Tammy and Sara of the TLS team and loved working with you both! Link to the article is in the bio.

The piece shown here in the entryway is our light grey concrete tabletop on an Ash wood base. This fantastic photograph is by . For scale the top is 4ft. We have footage pfaking this and will probably share it at some point.

Let us know what you think of the concrete!

@ San Diego, California

Delivered the arched sofa table to it's new home yesterday. Believe it or not, we designed this to hold those lamps whi...
06/29/2018

Delivered the arched sofa table to it's new home yesterday. Believe it or not, we designed this to hold those lamps which are crystal and weigh 40 lbs each! Graceful and strong. I honestly couldn't be happier with it. It was so much fun to build! Time consuming for how simple it looks but totally worth it. Thank you
for bringing us in on this one!

If you are visiting our insta, check out some of the last posts that show some videos of the process of making this. This is walnut wood with a copper inlay. Legs are bent by creating laminations and gluing them back together around a form.

@ La Jolla, California

Table top for the arched table is all together. This is a walnut veneer that we made in the shop. The first pic is wh...
06/17/2018

Table top for the arched table is all together. This is a walnut veneer that we made in the shop. The first pic is what is in the center of the table that we designed everything around. The inlay is copper. It was a challenge as it doesn't really leave any room for error but I'm super excited about the rest!
Just need to finish the joinery of the arched legs so we can complete everything. Can't wait to get into the shop next week and finish up!
@ San Diego, California

Here is the slab coffee table in it's new home. Pictures just don't do this space or the view justice. A Huge thank you...
06/05/2018

Here is the slab coffee table in it's new home. Pictures just don't do this space or the view justice.
A Huge thank you to the Fox family for selecting us to work with you and for welcoming us in to snap some pictures!



@ San Diego, California

Loving these new cutting boards that Erik made! Can't wait to see them with finish on. l ...
06/01/2018

Loving these new cutting boards that Erik made! Can't wait to see them with finish on.

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@ San Diego, California

Working on editing photos that we took last week of our slab coffee table. I LOVED the home it landed in. Can't wait to...
05/31/2018

Working on editing photos that we took last week of our slab coffee table. I LOVED the home it landed in. Can't wait to finish these up and share!


Here's the finished shelving unit for ! Appreciate the opportunity to work with such a great client. Such a fun challen...
05/30/2018

Here's the finished shelving unit for ! Appreciate the opportunity to work with such a great client.
Such a fun challenge to install something overnight. Im getting old though since it took pretty much the duration of the weekend to recover!
Thanks for the great photo!


@ San Diego, California

Here's the finished shelving unit for ! Appreciate the opportunity to work with such a great client. Such a fun challen...
05/30/2018

Here's the finished shelving unit for ! Appreciate the opportunity to work with such a great client.

Such a fun challenge to install something overnight. Im getting old though since it took pretty much the duration of the weekend to recover!

Thanks for the great photo!



@ San Diego, California

05/23/2018

Some of the progress we made today on the shelving unit that's going above the bar top. Looking good for our Friday deadline for install. Lots we didn't film or put in here but since this is always fun to see I wanted to share it.

If you're curious about what we are building, look our last video and you will see the CAD drawing.

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