Our custom wood bookshelves blend style and function.
Solid wood bookshelves are a great addition to a living room, family room or office. They are a stylish way to organize books, plants, decor items, games, and puzzles. We can build them as floating shelves or as floor standing units, using any of our hardwoods such as walnut, oak, maple, or ash. Make your bookshelves more than just utilitarian.
Browse some of our past projects for inspiration. Then reach out - we’d love to chat about your project.
Wooden bookshelves are useful in so many spaces. Whether used in a living room, or office they can store books, plants or decorative knick knacks. In a family room they are a great place to organize your games and puzzles. With a well designed solid wood bookshelf, you can be confident that the shelves will support the weight of your books and other items.
At Loewen Design Studios, we can design and build your wooden bookshelves to suit your needs and your design style. Whether you’re looking for floating shelves or floor standing units, your shelving will be made from solid hardwood such as walnut, ash, maple, or oak. Our design team is ready to work with you to figure out the best design for your space.
You’ll enjoy your solid hardwood table for many years so getting it built to order, just right for you, matters. We call this Goldilocks-ing your table. You design it. We build it. And if you want help designing, we have lots of experience with that too.
We expertly craft every piece of furniture one at a time with you in mind, based on the customizations you have chosen.
All of our designs can be Goldilocks-ed to suit your needs. Adjust the size, shape, wood, finish, base, or edge so it’s just right for you.
Every design we show has been developed to not only look great but to work well too. If you'd like help customizing your table, we're happy to chat!
We build all of our tables using solid hardwood to ensure that your table will stand up to the wear and tear of life.
Everything you need to make sure you can get the perfect table for your home.
Extension tables extend. We all know that, it’s in the name. But how much do they extend? How much should they extend? And probably most importantly, how much should yours extend?
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The finish on your table affects the durability and the sheen. In this blog we explore the 3 types of finishes we use: Rubio, Osmo and Conversion Varnish.
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Walnut is a dark brown hardwood with variation in colour and grain. Its color ranges from a dark brown to a blonde to a reddish brown. It can have straight grain or very complex interesting grain patterns. It’s important to note that when we say “Walnut” at Loewen Design Studios we mean the wood. Sometimes you’ll see others use “Walnut” to mean a color of stain on a different wood. We definitely mean the wood, which has much more exciting variation and richer browns than any walnut stain I’ve seen to date.

Walnut is an excellent wood that people have been using for furniture making for a very long time. There are some really simple reasons for this.
Walnut is one of those unique things that’s both a great material to build with - it’s strong and durable - and it’s beautiful. So often you need to build something strong then make it pretty on top. Walnut does both of those at the same time. It’s the best.

While I love listing the wonderful things about Walnut, it’s also worth mentioning that it isn’t perfect. It is hardwood, but it isn’t the hardest hardwood. It will hold up to a lot but it is more dentable than something like Maple. The nice thing is that it’s a little less dense so it isn’t quite as heavy as some other woods.
Walnut does also have natural color variations. They tell the story of the trees that make up the piece. This is part of what makes Walnut so special. One piece of walnut won’t be exactly like another, so the piece of furniture you get won’t match another exactly. Walnut does always look like walnut, but within a range.

All in all, walnut is excellent, but only if it’s right for what you’re looking for. It certainly isn’t right for everything all the time. But the brown of walnut is very wonderful. It really can’t be duplicated by any stain on another wood. Believe me, I’ve tried.

Want to dive deeper into why we love Walnut? Check out this video.
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