Meet the Chagrin Valley Furniture Maker - Zach Schulte
In this video, Zach Schulte, VP of Operations and Co-Owner of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture, answers questions about furniture making and his job at CVCF.
Distressed Wood for Biomorphic Epoxy Tables - Part 1
Biomorphic live edge epoxy river tables are a trending furniture style and this video shows you some of the factors that go into choosing the naturally distressed wood slabs when making the tabletops at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture.
The Secret to Making America's Finest Epoxy River Tables
This video profiles one of America’s premier custom furniture companies – Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture in Cleveland, Ohio. You’ll learn about the company, its history, the workshop, the people who run the company and the designers and woodworkers who make amazing one-of-a-kind epoxy river tables one piece at a time.
Groundhog Day at an Epoxy River Table Workshop
Watch how we have have mastered the art of the epoxy pour through hours and hours and hours of training and practice - day after day - year after year. Kind of like "Groundhog Day".
Custom Wood & Epoxy Dining & Kitchen Tables for Sale Online
In this video, you’ll see dozens of custom-made one-of-a-kind dining tables we’ve co-designed with our customers and show how you, too, can design and order your own original Custom Wood Dining or Kitchen Table, with or without epoxy, online from Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture.
Customer Review: Epoxy River Table with Fossils & Turquoise
In this video, a homeowner from New Mexico talks about the made-to-order epoxy river dining table he and his wife co-designed online with Chagrin Valley. Embedded in the teal blue river and epoxy-filled cracks are turquoise crystals, pebbles, fossils, and arrowheads to go along the Southwestern theme of their home.
CNC Carved Epoxy-Filled Topographic Tables
In this video, you'll see really amazing custom tables with the center of the tabletop carved out to replicate the shapes of bodies of water in the U.S. and then filled with colored epoxy. You'll watch how these tables are handmade, one by one, by Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture in our Cleveland, Ohio production facility.
CNC Epoxy Resin Mississippi River Conference Table
This video customer review tells the story of how an amazing conference table was designed from the dream of Capt. Michael Bopp, President of the Crescent River Port Pilots’ Association in New Orleans, and built by Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. The 19’ black walnut table features a CNC-engraved, epoxy resin-filled representation of the course of the Lower Mississippi River.
Lake Sunapee Replicated in a CNC Engraved Epoxy Table
In this video, furniture designer Sky Ironhorse programs and operates a handheld CNC Router to carve the outline of Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire into the top of a table that is then filled with colored epoxy. Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture fulfilled the request of a couple by making this one-of-a-kind dining table for their luxury lake house.
The Best Custom Epoxy Resin River Tables Of 2020
The tables we make are entirely inspired by our customer's desires, and in turn, your amazing creations define how our brand presents itself. The results speak for themselves - our brand is in good hands.
The Art (and Music) of the Epoxy River Table Pour
This video, edited to the William Tell Overture, shows you different colored epoxy resins being mixed, poured and manipulated to create the stunning flowing effects found in our epoxy river dining tables, coffee tables, conference tables, and more. The epoxy is mixed with tinted resin then poured is most often poured between two live edge tabletop halves.
Epoxy River Studio Desk for a New York Music Producer
In this video, Zach Schulte talks about a custom made live edge, epoxy resin studio desk built exclusively for a New York music producer by Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. The customer had a unique design idea that required a custom furniture company that focuses on quality, creativity and art.
Buy A Custom Desk [Live Edge & Epoxy Resin Options]
Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture (CVCF) is a custom desk builder that sells custom live edge wood and metal desks, custom l-shaped desks, custom epoxy resin desks, custom corner desks, custom desktops and custom desks for home offices and business. Watch this video to learn about the various factors that go into the prices and costs for custom desks sold locally and online in the U.S.
How We Built an Epoxy River Table for a Hollywood Star
This video tells the story of a glow-in-the-dark epoxy resin river table that was made-to-order by Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture for a high-profile Hollywood celebrity. Zach Schulte, VP and Shop Foreman, goes through the process of making the table and shows you the features of this opulent dining table.
Hickory L-Shaped Epoxy Resin Sit-Stand Home Office Desk
In June 2020, Zac G. of Hortonville, Wisconsin, reached out to Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture in Cleveland, Ohio. He wanted a one-of-kind ergonomic sit-stand desk for his home office. This video shows you how Chagrin Valley completely customized the piece, taking Zac's design idea, refining it, and building a stunning desk for his office.
How To Make A Swirl Effect In A River Table
Brandon, woodworker and expert resin artist at CVCF, shows you how to create the subtle (or not so subtle) "swirl" effects in the resin poured down a river table.
How I Built A Booming Custom Furniture Business
This video shows you how Sheldon Myeroff turned his furniture making hobby into a profitable international custom furniture making company – all after retirement!
Epoxy Resin & Live Edge Wood Conference Tables
Learn how to buy a custom table here. Find out how to design and buy your own "made-to-measure" table for sale locally near you (U.S. only) or online. This video shows you how to get a price for a durable custom size handmade conference room table.
Buy A Custom Modular Conference Table $12,000+
A fancy sports car club in Detroit gave us a really awesome design idea for a modular epoxy river conference room table. The client wanted 4 tables with rivers going through them so when you put them together it was one large river table. CVCF refined the idea and built the table in our 6000 sq. ft. woodworking facility outside Cleveland, OH.
Ocean Resin Tables For Sale
In this video, Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture shows you multi-colored epoxy resin being poured and shaped into an epoxy resin and wood ocean table custom ordered by a family in New York. CVCF is a U.S.-based ocean resin table manufacturer that specializes in combining decorative layered resin art with live edge wood slabs, reclaimed wood, and walnut slabs.
Conference Table Logo Design & Branding
Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture uses CNC engraving and epoxy resin to design and build custom conference tables that include company logos and branding elements like company colors and embedded branding objects. This video shows you an amazing conference table for an IT company with their multi-colored logo CNC-engraved in the tabletop and microchips embedded in a green epoxy resin river.
Creating a CNC Engraved Mississippi River Conference Table
This video testimonial (customer review) tells the story of how an amazing conference table was designed from the dream of Capt. Michael Bopp, President of the Crescent River Port Pilots’ Association, and built by Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. The 19’ black walnut table features a CNC-engraved, epoxy resin-filled representation of the course of the Lower Mississippi River.
Building River Tables: From Beginning To End
In this video, Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture gives you an in-depth look at the time, effort, and skill involved in building custom live edge epoxy resin and wood river tables - starting with the sustainable harvesting of trees and closing with shipping the tables to homeowners and businesses all across the United States.
Crating & Shipping Live Edge River Tables CVCF 2020
In Episode #10 of "From Forest to Furnishings, we hear how Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture builds custom crates for all our epoxy resin and wood river tables and desks to help ensure damage-free delivery on these very heavy items. Sheldon Myeroff, President of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture, explains the crating process which includes handcrafting every crate out of solid 2x4s and wood planks, then adding bubble wrap, styrofoam, spacers, and anything else necessary to preserve the integrity of the epoxy resin furnishing during shipping.
Pushing the Envelope with Epoxy Resin River Tables
In this video, you'll hear Sheldon and Zach of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture talk about creating new, exciting custom epoxy resin and wood river tables, river desks, river countertops, river conference tables and other custom furniture. CVCF is constantly doing research into new epoxy resin colors, pour techniques, and designs. Our CNC capabilities allow us to engrave and etch anything into the tabletop or desktop to be filled with epoxy - logos, emblems, even the Mississippi River!
Watch How Epoxy River Tables Are Sanded and Sprayed
In Episode #9 of "From Forest to Furnishings, Sheldon Myeroff, President of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture, explains the sanding and catalyzed varnish spraying process for a custom epoxy resin and wood river table at his woodworking facility. Chagrin Valley has a large spray room with an air filtration system that removes any particulate matter from the air to keep dust from getting in the wood finish or epoxy.
How To Buy A Custom Table
In this video, Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture shows you how to order a custom live edge wood and epoxy river table made to your specifications. CVCF is a manufacturer of high quality, handcrafted, custom designed furniture for sale online to individuals and businesses throughout the continental United States.
How to Pour Epoxy to Make a River Table
In Episode 8 of "From Forest to Furnishings", you'll learn how the pouring process is performed for epoxy resin river tables by Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. It starts with selecting the epoxy resin colors for your table. Then the two live edge tabletop halves are laid out and sealed in preparation for the pour. The epoxy is mixed with tinted resin then poured into the riverbed. Sometimes up to six pours/drying cycles are need to achieve a smooth river with no bubbles and the appearance of "depth".
How River Tables are Prepped for Epoxy Pours
In Episode 7 of "From Forest to Furnishings", you'll watch the woodworkers at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture prep the wood slabs for the all-important epoxy resin pour by sawing to specs, removing the bark edges and smoothing the live edge, and lightly sanding the surface. President and Woodworker Sheldon Myeroff leads you through the process with several of his staff, featuring multi-talented Ed Johnson on the chisel, putty, and sander.
Watch Wood Carried to Shop for River Tables
In Episode 6 of "From Forest to Furnishings", the wood that has been cut, dried, and flattened at the mill is brought to Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture to start the actual building of the live edge epoxy resin river tables. President and Woodworker Sheldon Myeroff talks about how the wood slabs are placed in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment to prevent warping and cracking.
Watch How Wood Slabs Are Flattened for River Tables
Continue the journey "From Forest to Furnishings" as Sheldon Myeroff takes you to a local Amish sawmill where wood that has been air and kiln dried for up to a year and a half is flattened and planed into beautiful, smooth slabs. Now they are ready to be made into a custom epoxy resin river table at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture.
How to Select the Ideal Wood Slab
Sheldon Myeroff takes you to the wood slab barn at a local Amish sawmill where wood for Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture's epoxy resin river tables are stored. Customers get to choose from thousands of different sizes, grains, and species, including cherry, walnut, sassafras, and hickory. Local customers pick the pieces out in person.
Watch Wood Slabs Air and Kiln Dried for River Tables
Sheldon Myeroff of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture takes you to a local Amish sawmill where logs that have been cut into slabs are air dried and kiln dried to remove the moisture from the wood. This helps prevent warping or cracking of the wood when used as tabletops for epoxy resin river tables. The slabs are air dried in large stacks. They are separated from each other by sticks. Air drying takes up to one year.
Watch Timber Cut Into Wood Slabs to Make Live Edge River Tables
Sheldon Myeroff of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture takes you to a local Amish sawmill where logs are cut into slabs to make tabletops for the epoxy resin furnishings in Episode 2 of our "From Forest to Furnishings" series. After delivery of the logs to the mill, a huge automated saw cuts 15-20 slabs out of 4 foot diameter tree. These are then stacked in piles to be taken to racks where they are air-dried for up to one year.
Highest Quality Custom River Tables Sold In The USA
This video shows you the, many reasons why Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture makes the highest quality custom river tables made in the United States. It's real custom furniture, designed by you and handcrafted in our workshop by real woodworking professionals. You even get to pick out the slabs you want for your table. Other so-called "custom" furniture makers aren't really selling one-of-a-kind pieces like CVCF. They offer you limited choices for tabletops, legs, sizes, etc. - assembly line produced from prefabricated parts in their warehouse.
Watch How Lumber is Harvested Sustainably for Use in Furniture
Sheldon Myeroff, President of CVCF, ventures deep into the forest to survey the harvesting of wood that is used in his authentic custom furniture. The Forest Service has marked trees that need to be cut down for the health of the whole ecosystem. Thinning the forest allows sunlight to reach the smaller trees so they can grow. Once felled, the tree is marked in sections for cutting into slabs at the sawmill.
How To Make An Epoxy Resin Waterfall Table
See Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture's VP of Operations, Zach Schulte, tell and show you how we made our signature cherry epoxy resin "waterfall" table- a coffee table with a tabletop that also operates as the second leg.
How You Design Furniture, Submit The Design And Get It Custom Built
You don’t have to be an artist to design your dream furniture. You just have to have a dream, a pencil and paper, and a furniture design app or computer software. This video shows how anybody can design their own custom furniture. Just send your sketch or photograph to Chagrin Valley Custom Valley by mail, email, or text.
Where to Buy Handmade Custom Built Furniture for Sale from $800
Learn where and how to order real custom built furniture handmade from 100% solid wood for sale in the USA with prices starting at $800.00. Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture is a Cleveland, OH, custom luxury furniture company that specializes in designing, building and installing exceptional custom handmade wood furniture for homeowners, businesses, restaurants and hotels throughout the United States.
The Creation Of A Custom-Made Live Edge Adjustable Height Desk
This video shows you how a custom live edge adjustable height desk is designed and built by Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. You'll also see a demonstration of the desk being raised and lowered. This ergonomic desk was designed specifically to be good for the customer’s health, good for his work productivity, and good for his spirit – because a beautiful workstation made from real walnut wood is not only functional, it creates a more peaceful and aesthetically pleasing work environment.
The Making of a Custom Designed Live Edge River Table
This video shows how the "river" in a River Table is created by the furniture making team at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. A River Table is a live edge table that uses colored epoxy resin to fill the gap between two opposing live edge pieces- thus creating the appearance of a small “river.” This technique can also be used to fill cracks or natural imperfections in wood, and offers endless customization options.
Drying Wood in Windy Weed
Weed, California is located in Northern California in the shadow of 14,200 ft. Mt. Shasta. Since the 1800's the area has been a favorite for loggers and lumberjacks. Wood harvested here was sent by train to San Francisco to be made into fine furniture. But first it was taken to a sawmill in Weed to be dried and have all the moisture removed from the cut slabs.
Custom Boat Shaped Conference Table Customer Review
Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture specializes in modern handcrafted custom conference room tables that are sturdy, stylish, durable, practical and awesome. CVCF custom furniture designers and makers build rectangular, round, square, racetrack oval, U-shaped conference tables and V-shaped conference room tables for clients locally and all over the United States.
A Custom Built Live Edge Wood Conference Table Sold By CVCF
This custom size conference room table was constructed out of a live edge walnut wood slab. CVCF sells live edge walnut conference tables locally (U.S only) and online. This office showpiece was custom designed, built and installed for a recruiting firm named GRS Recruiting in 2015.
How to Order Live Edge Custom Furniture
CVCF live edge furniture designers, craftspeople, desk makers and table builders enhance and showcase the beauty of the rustic natural edges of the wood slabs. CVCF live edge furniture makers don't touch the edges of the wood slabs in order to preserve the outside of the original harvested tree to show the outer edges of the visible tree trunk.
Furniture for A Christmas Story House Returned to 1940's Glory
Chagrin Valley Custom furniture restored heirloom antique furniture for the Christmas Story House from movie fame. The house is open to visitors year round and is even used as an overnight rental!
Top 10 Reasons to Have Custom Made Furniture
Wondering if you should purchase new furniture from a store or from Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture? See the Top 10 Reasons why custom built furniture may be your best option!
The Making of a Custom Designed Live Edge River Table
To the tune of "Blue Danube Waltz", watch how the "river" in a River Table is created by the furniture making team at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture.
Desk Made From Spalted Maple & Walnut
Watch how Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture designed and handcrafted this custom table.
How to Order Refinishing and Specialty Painting Services
This video shows you examples of furniture that Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture has restored to like-new condition by refinishing old or damaged pieces, plus examples of projects that have been enhanced with specialty paints.
Interior Sliding Door Hardware & Accessories Available Through CVCF
Interior sliding doors are an exciting new trend in interior design- particularly interior sliding barn doors. Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture specializes in sliding doors of all kinds, from rustic, authentic 100-year-old-barn-wood doors to modern and industrial designs.
Distressed Wine Cabinet - Part One
Chagrin Valley's Sheldon Myeroff will discusses how to make a distressed wine cabinet.
How to Order a Custom Interior Sliding Barn Door
This video shows you examples of the beautiful custom made-to-order sliding interior barn doors that CVCF designs and builds. You will also learn how to order and purchase a barn door for your home.
Distressed Wine Cabinet - Part Two
Interior Designer Beth Cohen discusses how to paint distressed wood for the distressed wine cabinet.