This is called a Scrumpdiddlyumptious Bar
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Did you know that when you order furniture from Huston & Company, whether it’s for your home, your office, or your library or school, we send you a big, beautiful...
View ArticleUNE…a furniture collection grows
Throughout the past few years, we’ve had the great pleasure to build furniture for the University of New England. It started in 2008, with a collection of pieces for the George and Barbara Bush...
View ArticleOh, horsefeathers!
I had a call from a potential customer recently who had a new question for me; new to me. She asked if we could build her a sofa with cushions that are free from any flame retardant chemicals. In...
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Little Cottage in the Woods
In preparation for some spring and summer advertising for 2013, we had ourselves a little photo shoot this past week. We were grateful to be allowed to utilize one of the adorable cottages at Hidden...
View ArticleTo Market, To Market
As we work our way through each Autumn, we begin to plan our marketing for the coming year. We begin with as much analysis as we can conjure on our marketing of the past year: who responded to what?...
View ArticleDiversity, Places
I’m often surprised at the diversity of our clients and projects. At any given time, we are building a wide range of furniture pieces for our customers. The next couple of months are a perfect...
View ArticleOthers build great furniture too...
While we think our furniture is the very best, we do like to see what others in the custom furniture world are up to. And of course, there is a ton of great stuff out there. Fantastic designs,...
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Building small buildings
Like chipmunks getting ready for winter, the guys in the shop are running, running, running. These scholar carrels for Princeton are in the final stages. They are being fully assembled, one by one,...
View Articlemerveilleux
There’s nothing quite like a challenging custom order to keep us all happy here. I can safely speak for everyone at Huston & Company and say that if we didn’t have unique orders to build in our...
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Gifts of Craft
Happy Holidays! This week, a few gift ideas from Huston & Company. If any of these interest you, give us a call or stop by! The Art of Dining Server, $95. I currently have 1 Oak and 7 Cherry.
View ArticleA Swift Kick
As we turn to the new year, we are grateful for a full worklist and a busy shop. We are grateful to our customers (most of all), our friends, the vendors that supply us with our wonderful materials,...
View ArticleTable for Eight, Please
We are working on a dining table in the workshop this week that I just had to share with you. It’s a round pedestal table to seat eight. We are building it for a ‘cottage’ here in Kennebunkport, on...
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Moment in Time
The workshop has been so busy for so many months now; it’s noisy and bustling and just full of energy everywhere. I recently walked out to the workshop during lunchtime to warm up by the woodstove,...
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Joshin' Around
A huge (and slightly belated) welcome to our newest furniture maker, Josh Rice! Josh at his workbench, building a Curva End Table
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The Collins Hall Table – Anniversary Edition
Just before Christmas in 2002, Collin Huston asked his father, Bill, if he could build a table for his mother, Mia, as a gift. When you ask such a question of your furniture-making father, he beams...
View ArticleOur New Look
We are very excited to share our newly updated website with you this week.HustonAndCompany.comFor several weeks we’ve been working with website developer, Kevin Brooks, on a fresh new pallette of...
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Keep Talking
You’ve all seen it, haven’t you? the fabulous post on the Elements of Style blog about the custom table we built for Erin Gates? If not, you don’t have to admit to it - just look here.read more
View ArticleVocab Quiz
As with any creative industry, brand, or product, we have our own “design vocabulary.” A design vocabulary is not a list of words, or even a list of details, but rather the overall, overarching style...
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