All Custom Work

Everything we build is intended to last for lifetimes, unless perhaps the piece is specified as a prototype. If your Metrik furniture piece ever requires attention for any reason, we are always a phone call away. For hardware items needing replacement due to normal wear, we can also order the exact parts required.

Each piece helps determine the construction techniques used. Sometimes dense with dovetails and tenons, sometimes featureless “torsion box” slabs with all the construction details fully hidden. Every piece we do, even if fully built in, can be totally dis-assembled, moved, and reworked for a new location, so there is never a worry about “not taking it with you.” All work can be accompanied by a “care for” and replacement parts listing.

Construction: We use a wide variety of solid woods, (especially from A&M in Cambridge, On.) with a high proportion of reclaimed urban logs used, including logs from the client’s own property on occasion, or even that special lumber which someone’s Dad stacked up 30 years ago...

Things We Do Well

  1. hidden spaces - every self respecting piece of furniture should have a secret drawer, a place for passports or even laptops.
  2. dimmed lighting built into a unit, which is switched on by touching a common object: a picture frame, a coin, or other metal memento.
  3. incorporating something sentimental into a new furniture piece- say, child's artwork, old stock certificates, relics from the past, even old upright pianos. (We once converted a family heirloom piano into a new media centre).
  4. meditation altars - a non denominational personal piece which can be very plain, or can include motifs, colours and objects which promote calm & reflection.