Precision
A reveal is either 1/16th or it isn’t. We measure to the line and cut to the line — every time.
IRON & OAK
Carpentry · Woodwork
Est. 2014 · Rhinebeck, NY
Heritage Carpentry · Hudson Valley
Houses are built with lumber.
Homes are built by hand.
Iron & Oak is a small carpentry studio building heirloom millwork, built-ins, cabinetry, and finish work — joined the old way, finished by eye.
12+
Years
180+
Projects
100%
By hand
What We Build
A small list of things — done extraordinarily well.
Six services. One standard. Every piece is drawn, joined, and finished in our Hudson Valley shop.
Selected Work
Recent commissions, by hand.
Library walls, mudrooms, stair restorations, and finish work — each one drawn for the room it lives in.
Why Iron & Oak
The standard, written down.
We hand these six promises to every client at the first walk-through. They are what we measure the work against.
Honesty
Flat hourly billing, fixed bids, and weekly photo updates. You see what we see.
Heritage
We were taught by old men in cold shops. The methods are slower because they last.
Durability
Solid stock, real joinery, hardware rated for 50,000 cycles. Built for the next owner.
Craftsmanship
Sand to 220, raise the grain, sand again. The finish is the work nobody sees.
Stewardship
FSC-certified lumber, reclaimed beams, low-VOC finishes. We leave a smaller pile of sawdust.
Meet the Maker
Trained by old hands.
Driven by the next generation.
Ethan grew up sweeping sawdust in his grandfather’s shop in upstate New York — a one-man operation that built kitchens for farmhouses and barns for working families. He took over the bench in 2014 and renamed it Iron & Oak.
Today the studio is small by design: one master, two apprentices, one truck. Every project gets Ethan’s pencil on the drawings, his hand on the plane, and his eye on the final reveal.
In Their Words
Clients who became neighbors.
“Ethan rebuilt our 1890 stair rail like a surgeon. You can’t tell where the old wood ends and the new begins.”
Margaret & David Holloway
Rhinebeck, NY · Restoration
Build with Iron & Oak
Tell us about the room.
We’ll bring the wood.
We book one major commission a quarter. If your project is calling for real craftsmanship, let’s talk.