Walker Creek Furniture in Essex, MA | Furniture

Walker Creek Furniture

How Walker Creek furniture is made. We use mortise-and-tenon joinery instead of dowels, and smooth our boards with a hand plane rather than a belt sander. We use only solid wood, no chip-board or veneer. While most furniture is finished with a sprayed-on polyurethane or colored lacquer, we finish every piece by hand using linseed oil, shellac and milk paint, just like 18th century furniture, so the surface feels as good as it looks. And rather than mass-producing stock designs we custom design each piece to guarantee proper scale, composition and detail. We can also use antique boards, doors, and architectural elements from old New England farmhouses and barns to create "new antiques" and colorful, one-of-a-kind pieces. We also sell antique furniture which we restore to a usable condition while retaining original finishes whenever possible.
Artistic Furniture. When you are looking for a unique piece of furniture that blends creativity with function, Walker Creek Furniture is the place to find an assortment of distinctive furniture. Enliven your living space with our custom-built furniture.
Cabinets. Choose from Walker Creek Furniture's many different sizes and styles of cabinets to fit your storage needs, or, give us exact dimensions and we will design a custom cabinet to fit your specifications. Many of our cabinets can also be made into Bathroom Vanities.
Tables. At Walker Creek Furniture, we build our tables from solid hardwoods and antique pine boards, carefully chosen and matched to create a beautiful look. We specialize in tables made from antique painted boards from 18th century New England farmhouses. Our tables can be customized with a wide selection of Table Legs and Bases, including pedestal or trestle bases. We also make wood Kitchen Countertops and Islands.
Windsor chairs. One of our specialities at Walker Creek is Windsor chairs. We offer a wide variety of new Windsors in both traditional and contemporary designs, including hand-made reproductions by Robert Elliott. We also have a large collection of antique Windsors from the late 18th and early 19th century which we restore and assemble into usable sets. Styles include bow-back, rod-back, birdcage, step-down, arrow-back and thumb-back. We also sell rush-seat "fancy chairs" from the same period.
Walker Creek customers. Homeowners, decorators, architects and businesses who need just the right piece for their home or office, come to Walker Creek Furniture. The casual, aged look of our furniture is especially suited to period antique houses, second homes, and beach houses.
Enhance your decor with our original fine art paintings by local artists. A perfect fit to complement our handmade new and antique furniture.