Iron Gates!

We are a family owned, custom made, reclaimed wood furniture business! We specialize in reclaimed lumber from California Redwood to Florida Cypress! We custom build every piece of furniture so it is always a one-of-a-kind piece for our customers!
   To explain to you who we are, we would need to start at the beginning of this journey.  September 6, 2014, we were your typical 7:00am-3:00pm educators working in the school system, until our early evening trip to the emergency room with our 18 month old son.  That trip to the emergency room was one that we will remember everyday for the rest of our lives.  After all the blood work and tests had been run, the doctor came in and told us our little boy had cancer. Two days later, our son was diagnosed with leukemia, but in the ears of a parent, cancer is cancer and I'm not sure I heard anything for days.  Our stay in the hospital was for a span of approximately 67 days.  Our little guy developed so many rare side effects from his chemotherapy that the doctors began calling him a unicorn.  While we agree that our child is special, this was not one of those times you wanted your child to stand out.  The chemo actually made him develop an additional disease, called Veno Occlusive Disease.  Basically, VOD makes your liver functions stop and then go in reverse.  The US didn't have any approved treatments for VOD yet, but there was an experimental one that had a 45% mortality rate, and while those were not great odds, it was our only hope.  Truth be told, one of the doctors came and cried with me one day because even they had lost hope for our son.  But little man found a way to fight through it all, and while we aren't out of the woods yet, we are out of the hospital and living as normal a life as you can with oral chemo every day and monthly infusions.  
     So, what is the point of my story you ask. He was out of the hospital and getting better every day, but his immune system was still basically zero and he couldn't go to daycare.  So, with one full time income, we needed a way to work from home to make ends meet, especially with medical bills growing every day.  My cousins in California, who had been with us every step of the way with our little man's diagnosis, recruited us to start woodworking with them. They had been in business for 5 years and knew my husband's background in construction and carpentry would make him an ideal woodworker.  It has been two years since we started creating custom pieces, and I can't tell you how much we love what we do! Our little boy was finally able to go back to school in August of 2015 and is now in remission. We still have chemo treatments for several more months, but little man is getting stronger and bigger every day! 
  This company was truly created out of a love for family and that's why we take so much pride in every piece of wood we choose for your family's custom made furniture. We love what we do and we truly enjoy creating a custom piece of furniture that you will love too!