Furniture Store Serving Hamilton, ON

Custom Solid Wood Furniture for Hamilton Homes

Every piece is custom. You choose the wood species, dimensions, finish and hardware. A dining table for a century home on Hamilton Mountain has different proportions than one going into a newer build in the east end, and it gets designed that way.

Woods: cherry, oak, walnut and maple. Finishes: 30+ hand-applied stains. Lead time is 8 to 12 weeks from order confirmation.

Penwood builds full dining rooms, bedroom furniture, home office pieces and living room storage. If it can be made in solid wood, the shop has probably built it.

What Makes It Penwood

Every joint in a Penwood piece is cut by hand. Mortise-and-tenon frames, dovetailed drawers, no staples or glue blocks doing the structural work. It’s the way Mennonite craftspeople in southern Ontario have built furniture for generations, and it’s why a Penwood table holds up to decades of daily use in a busy house. Solid Canadian hardwood throughout, kiln-dried before a single cut. Built to be handed down.

At the Ancaster showroom you can see the joinery for yourself: open a drawer, look at the corners, compare maple against cherry in daylight. The people on the floor know the furniture from the build side and will give you a straight answer on how each wood ages.

The Craft Behind the Furniture

Penwood's 20+ master builders have worked in Mennonite woodworking communities in southern Ontario since the business started in 1993. The wood is sourced locally, dried locally and built locally. Every order goes back to a specific craftsperson and their shop.

Two trees planted for every one used. All of the wood that enters the shop gets used.