Custom colorful furniture brought to life by Green Mountain Tableworx on Main St.
Published: 12-20-2024 12:55 PM
Modified: 12-23-2024 11:22 AM |
Nikki LaCasse helped open the Green Mountain Tableworx gallery downtown two years ago with the goal of providing customers with the exact centerpiece item their home needs.
“I love being able to create something completely unique for a family, find out a little bit about them, and have something that they can have as an heirloom for a long, long time,” the store’s sales manager said. “I’ve been in interior designing for a long time, and I just adore that. You can go to any furniture store, and you can find all kinds of dining tables, but they’re run of the mill, and it’s hard to find something really unique. And this is something that’s definitely eye-popping.”
The company specializes in native live-edge lumber that makes custom heavy-duty furniture often with cracks in the wood filled with colorful epoxy to create personalized one of a kind pieces. However, the tables are anything but inexpensive.
The owner Jamie Holcomb, a Marine veteran, had a home in Okemo, Vermont where he built live edge tables for his home and for friends. During the pandemic, he sold tables on consignment to furniture stores from Vermont to Rhode Island. LaCasse was working at one of those stores and decided to quit selling couches to work for Holcomb.
“I sold 63 in custom pieces within a couple of months,” said LaCasse. “So he’s like, ‘Hey, let’s talk about doing a gallery.’ So that’s how we started and then we chose Concord because it’s where everybody comes and splits off.”
The biggest sellers are the live edge river tables. These specialty tables are statement pieces for any room and are fully customizable from the wood, size, thickness, table stand, inclusions, and design, LaCasse said. The workers at the manufacturing facility focus on marrying customers’ requests with their artistic vision for each piece.
These can have one or multiple colored rivers running through them filled and layered with resin to create furniture that looks like a landscape from above. At the request of customers the company can make tables matched to real Google Earth locations that replicate the geography of coastlines.
Green Mountain Tableworx, with three locations across New England, offers dozens of designs and different matching pieces that can fit into traditional New England homes, and pay homage to native lumber craftsmanship.
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The wood selection always comes first, but people add personalized touches with insertions of family heirlooms, crafts or collections of random items. The business also does custom commemorative pieces for military service and game tables to diversify its offerings.
“The other thing that’s kind of cool is sometimes people will bring us a collection of something – they have a rock collection or something that means something to them – and we can actually put that in their piece,” said LaCasse. “And it doesn’t have to be a dining table. It could be wall art, or a little coffee table, or a game table to a family, but something that means something to them.”
The price range for Green Mountain’s furniture can vary widely. A standard seven- to eight-foot table with wood selections such as black walnut, cherry or hickory can have around a $5,000 price tag depending on how much customization goes into the piece, and with softer woods the cost can dip to $2,500.
“We fit it into their home around their world, instead of having them configure it to ours,” added LaCasse.
Looking forward, the business continues to expand its shop and selection of items with bureaus, desks and mirrors with customizable features. They currently source wood from 27 different timber mills and expanded to source olive and acacia wood from abroad. The business recently opened a third location in Millis, Mass., and is looking to open more around the state to decorate people’s mountain and lakeside homes.