Best of Cleveland: Furniture Makers, Custom Wood Tables

Any soiree becomes an excuse to showcase your new dinner table when you pick up an elaborate, handcrafted piece of local lumber from Furniture Makers. Owner Alex Sutula builds custom projects — whether it’s a utilitarian, mid-century modern coffee table or imposing trestle table, cherry veneered on massive pedestals — in a 900-square-foot workshop in Tremont.

Prices range from $1,000 to beyond $19,000, depending on how exquisite the design is. Think hand-cut exposed dovetails, gouged textured panels and carved panels. Creative license sees Sutula stenciling his signature: organic web features, which he says doctors have likened to microscopic bone structures within contrasting frames.

“It kind of just elevates the whole piece,” Sutula says.

After almost two decades, Sutula’s favorite part is still brushing on the first coat of polyurethane. “You put on this coat of oil and then the grain just absorbs it, and all of the colors that are in the wood just jump out at you.” furnituremakerscleveland.com

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