Wood Options for Custom Furniture, Epoxy Tables & Desks

Darker Wood Options for Custom Tables, Desks & Countertops

Designing and ordering your own piece of custom furniture starts with selecting the ideal wood slab for your tabletop. At Chagrin Valley, you choose from hundreds of wood slabs that we carry in our warehouse. These woods are ideal for epoxy resin and wood dining tables, conference tables, coffee tables, or desks. Ohio is blessed with rich and diverse forests that grow a wide variety of hardwood and softwood species. When starting your design, think how the epoxy color plays with the wood color and grain patterns. Do you want high contrast, a match, or something in between? Let’s start with a look at some of the darker woods that make ideal awesome epoxy resin river tables and desks:

Walnut: Rich, dark brown hardwood. Ideal for epoxy resin furniture. Strong with a variety of grain colors. Lighter shades of brown available.

Cherry: Hardwood. Rich reddish color and smooth grain. Popular with customers who order epoxy resin tables.

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Black Epoxy & Grey Walnut Coffee Table

Small Cherry River End Table

Dual Epoxy & Live Edge Cherry Wood Coffee Table

Butternut Blue River Coffee Table & Matching End Tables

Lighter Wood Options for Custom Tables, Desks & Countertops

Oak: Attractive, open grain. White oak – greyish-brown shade. Red oak – same with reddish tinge. Dense, heavy, durable, stain and scratch-resistant.

Elm: Tough, durable wood. Reddish brown to light tan. Off-white sapwood. Dramatic grain.

Hickory: Hard and heavy hardwood. Combination of light and dark colors. Rustic look. Light to medium brown color with a reddish hue. Yellowish brown sapwood. Rustic look.

Beech: Elegant yet dated appearance. Easy hardwood to work with for our woodworkers.

Maple: Light-brown to reddish color. Durable, dense, moisture-resistant qualities. Good for heavy use. Swirling grain patterns.

Ash: Grayish light brown to reddish color. Strong – excellent for heavy use (i.e. restaurants). Straight grain.

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Blue Epoxy & Elm Dining Table

Custom Blue Epoxy & Oak Lift Top Coffee Table

L Shaped Ergonomic Beech River Desk

Maple Conference Table With Resin Logo

Live Edge Wood Slabs for Custom Tables, Desks & Countertops

Most of the custom furniture that Chagrin Valley designs and builds make use of the live edge, or natural edge, of the wood slab. Live edge slabs preserve the outside of the original harvested tree to show the outer edges of the visible tree trunk. Chagrin Valley’s furniture designers and artisans enhance and showcase the beauty of the rustic natural edges of wood slabs through our planing and staining techniques. The live edges of the slab can either make up the outside edges of a table or desk, or the live edge slab can be cut down the middle, flipped so that the live edges face each other, and then the space between the live edges is filled with epoxy to make a beautiful river table. Our biomorphic furniture uses numerous highly distressed pieces of live edge slabs placed in a puzzle pattern throughout the table and the spaces between the live edge slabs are filled with epoxy resin for both beauty and as a strong bond to hold the slabs together.

Blue Epoxy & Live Edge Walnut Side Tables

Custom Live Edge Black Epoxy Dining Table With Crystals

Custom Live Edge Black Walnut Bar Top And Countertop

Live Edge Redwood Coffee Table & Side Table Set

Live Edge Maple Wood Slab Ergonomic Adjustable Height Standing Desk

Biomorphic Highly Distressed Wood Slabs for Custom Tables, Desks & Countertops

Biomorphic Epoxy Resin and Wood Furnishings use the natural forms of the wood, its distressed features, and colored epoxy to create stunning statement pieces for any room in the home. Biomorphism is a furniture design movement in which a piece’s form echoes the forms and patterns found in nature. As for Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture’s biomorphic epoxy and wood furniture, the form actually IS nature. The shapes and forms and natural imperfections in the wood are kept intact and inform the look of the finished table or desk. Also called organic, natural shape, natural form, or just natural furniture, biomorphic tables and desks have become a popular offering at Chagrin Valley. The naturally distressed slab or slabs retain their original state, warts and all. This includes gouges, cracks, discolorations, insect trails, bird peckings, rot, knots, burls, and so forth. In nature, these are caused by forces of nature such as lightning strikes, high winds, ice and snow, insect infestation, fungi, and birds. CVCF saw the beauty in these naturally distressed slabs and started using them in our live edge epoxy tables. “Essentially, biomorphic furniture brings nature indoors,” says CVCF designer Sky Ironhorse, a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate in Industrial Design.

Beechwood Dining Table With Epoxy Rivers

Contiguous Dining Table & End Table Set With Clear Epoxy Resin

Epoxy Dining Table with Clear Resin

Round Walnut Conference Table With Embedded Seashells

Translucent Black Epoxy & Maple Burl Coffee Table

Watch the Journey of Wood Slabs From Forest to Furnishings

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. Sheldon Myeroff, President of CVCF, Zach Schulte, VP, and Ed Johnson, Administrator, narrate the video.

Watch and Learn All About Custom River Tables

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. You’ll also learn about the options available that go into formulating the design and determining the pricing. And we give you some ballpark figures on the costs of different types of dining tables for sale. We use Zoom, Facetime, phone calls, emails and texts to keep you fully involved in the design and construction of your custom dining table. We make our dining tables from locally-sourced, sustainably-harvested natural wood, reclaimed wood and live edge wood. You choose your own wood slabs – any species – plus the materials and epoxy resin color. Tell us what style you want – industrial, modern, rustic – you name it, we’ll build it.

Wood Options