Old School Custom Furniture

Old School Custom Furniture is a small custom furniture company. Old School consists of myself and my wife, Jim and Mary Shelby. We have a small workshop on 15 wooded acres in the beautiful rural hills 1 hour outside of St Louis MO. We also own a sawmill and kiln, so we cut and dry our own lumber, giving us unprecedented control over the clarity and quality of the wood we use.

This also gives us the option to make extremely sentimental pieces handcrafted from trees on property special to our customers, such as a hope chest crafted from a tree on a grandparents property!! While not an option for everyone, this option can be extremely sentimental to some customers. Please note, for us to use lumber from your property, it must be possible to get the lumber to us!

In addition, we are also one of a very small number of artisans using higher quality, more durable hardwoods for our painted furniture. We use cherry or walnut that is not clear enough for stained furniture to make our painted pieces. We prefer hardwoods for the quality and durability it possesses compared to the pine used for most painted furniture.

We specialize in Shaker, Mission and Antique Reproduction pieces.
We use any type of finish you prefer. Some of our more popular finishes are hand rubbed oils, as well as painted, distressed and antiqued reproduction pieces.

If you can dream it, imagine it or draw it, we can build it for you.

Why settle for store bought when you can get heirloom quality, solid hardwood, hand crafted for the same price?

Give us a call….Old School Custom Furniture…When only the best will do.