{"id":815,"date":"2026-09-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/furniture-3-gutenberg.local\/?p=815"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:29:22","slug":"inside-our-north-loop-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodmart.xtemos.com\/furniture-3\/2026\/09\/18\/inside-our-north-loop-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside our North Loop workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-wd-container wd-dir-col wd-ba73ec29\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-fd8b01f8\">At seven in the morning the workshop behind our North Loop showroom smells of linseed oil and fresh-cut oak. The first job of the day is always the same: checking the boards that arrived overnight for moisture before a single one goes near a saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-wd-title title wd-e464a3ae\">Finished by hand, one piece at a time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-8de08f35\">Machines cut our joints to a tenth of a millimetre, but every frame is sanded and oiled by hand. It takes three coats and two days of drying for a table top to get the soft, low sheen you see in the showroom \u2014 there is no faster way to do it properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-wd-title title wd-70bbf8ab\">Every drawer is opened a hundred times<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-03ac6a9c\">Before anything is wrapped, someone opens each drawer and door a hundred times, sits on every chair and rocks every table on a flat steel plate. 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