Our Mission: Building community around our tables
As a company we believe whole heartedly that community and relationships are best built by breaking bread with one another around a table. Our world would tell us that we need to be fast-paced, the most liked, and show only the most flawless versions of our selves. Our goal is to help our customers build intentional, slow, and deep relationships within their community and families. Tables allow vulnerability, intentionality, and more time to truly know and be known by others. So our mission is to build community around our tables.
“Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships”
— Henri Nouwen
Meet the Owners
Cody & Laurel O’Neal
“If you are more fortunate than others. Build a longer table not a taller fence.”
— Unknown
Wood Heritage
Cody is a third generation wood craftsman. From his early years he has been making sawdust and learning all that he can from what he would call his wood heritage.He has learned and inherited his desire for fine woodworking from his father, his step father, maternal grandfather, and paternal grandfather. Here are their stories:
Ron O’Neal, Father, Canadian, Tx
Ron O’Neal was always good with his hands but concentrated more on engines than wood. However, in his 20’s he built a sewing chest, that still stands the test of time. In his 40’s, he had a change of heart from engines and began working with his father in a construction business. He did basic remodeling and learned woodworking from from both Don Cook and Chuck O’Neal.
As children, my brother and I loved to go to the work site with him, watch, and help build or work when it was safe to do so.
Michael Brown, Step-Father, Bentonville, Ar
Michael Brown began working with wood when he started buying and selling houses as a side hustle. Turns out he was incredible good at it, as he has bought and flipped most houses for a profit. He would buy houses and then remodel them usually beginning with the floors. He learned to install engineered flooring, rebuild walls, framing, and many other useful construction feats. He loves to see how the next house will progress, and enjoys spending nights and weekends pouring himself into each of these homes.
Don Cook, Grandfather, Henrietta, Ok
Don Cook had many jobs early in his youth, but found his love of carpentry in his 30’s. He opened a cabinet shop and created specialty cabinets. As he grew older, he went on to teach carpentry to high school students. Safety was his number one priority for his students. His class would build one house a year and he was so proud of all their accomplishments. The greatest one being they built a “round” house. It was the talk of the town.
He continued with construction, but also found that he enjoyed more artistic work and began crafting children’s toys for his grandkids, small bookshelves, ornate doll furniture, and then began scroll work. He spent many hours crafting large scroll works with the Lord’s prayer as the center piece. He in turn, donated these to the churches that had hired him to work in their parsonages. His passion was to work with wood, and he enjoyed this through his adult life.
Chuck O’Neal, Grandfather, Canadian, Tx
Chuck O’Neal worked in the oil fields in his early years, but as he grew older and began to have grand kids, he found a love of crafting toys for them. He crafted banks in various shapes and then expanded to creating wooden semi-trucks with intricate detail. This began as a hobby, but as the oil field slowed down, he decided to start a business building and updating homes and businesses. He was so proud to have the only “all female” team working for him.
His children at different times worked with him, and so he was always proud to call his a family business.