Most of the work that we do here at Cannon Hill is on dining tables — pieces that are meant to be the gathering place for family and friends, a centerpiece around which meals are shared and memories…

The pedestal bases we make here at Cannon Hill Woodworking for any dining table are completely custom. That beings we can draw options for you, or you can provide a photo to match, or you yourself can…

Here at Cannon Hill we have a little tradition of naming component styles after the first clients who incorporate them into a project. It’s both a useful shorthand around the workshop and a way to…

Sometimes our clients come to us with well-determined ideas about how they want their furniture to turn out, and in those cases we’re more than happy to follow the client’s lead. Of course, we’ll lend…

We’ve learned over the years that the best way to make furniture is to allow the material itself to guide the design and building process. Working with a natural product as arresting as the lumber that…

It was quite difficult to source the Bolivian Rosewood (aka Morado) for this project because you can usually only find smaller or thinner pieces. We ended up finding a distributor in Maryland with just…

At first glance, this table might look merely funky, or even slightly off; when we look at it we see the thing that makes us different from other furnituremakers. Our clients on this project…

This stunning table in Claro walnut is now at home in freshly remodeled condo in Malden. When our client came to visit our showroom, he brought along a friend who was himself a woodworker; our client…

Most of the things we build here at Cannon Hill are large dining tables, meant to accommodate large gatherings of family and friends around a…

One of our specialties here at Cannon Hill is a popular style of furniture built from what’s known as “reclaimed” lumber. “Reclaimed” material is lumber that has previously been used, typically in the…

This table is a great example of the functional benefits that our table extension system can offer to our clients. Many, if not most, of our clients want to be able to use their new dining tables for…

The base for this live edge walnut cocktail table was a fun one to build for Cannon Hill's Sam O'Leary. All hand carved. The client came to us with the design for the cocktail table. We happened to…

This table was a surprise 25th wedding anniversary present for the client's wife. We started with several design ideas: A compass rose, a sailboat, and the GPS coordinates of the island where the…

One of our strengths here at Cannon Hill is our ability to work in a wide range of styles. We build trestle tables that have their roots in centuries-old traditions of furniture making and design,…

This was a first for us! The wood for this pine table came straight from the floors of this recently remodeled and historic…

When our client on this project approached us, she started with a few crucial pieces of information: first, that this table was going into a beach house, and that she wanted to keep that beachy feel;…

White Oak is perhaps the most durable of all the domestic hardwoods. This top is 101" x 54"  and made from 8/4 white oak which is 2" thick before we mill into it and end up around 1.625 to 1.75 inches…

When our clients approached us regarding this table, they explained that they needed a live-edge table that would feel at home in their wood-filled Maine home. There were already a number of natural…

One of the unavoidable facts of furnituremaking is that there will be waste in the process. Whether it’s off-cuts from our tables, shavings from our planes, or sawdust from our sanders, we spend our…

The client was looking to upgrade his dining room table in his South End home. He was hoping for an 8' live edge walnut table that could extend to be 10'. This table seats 10 people, and 12 with the…

We build a wide variety of bases here at Cannon Hill in all sorts of designs and from all sorts of materials. This “genre” of single base is one of our favorites and one that’s sure to be an eye-…

This desk and bookcase are both built from mahogany, the former in 8/4 material and the latter in 4/4. Our distributor in New Hampshire has a wide range of wood species in stock, and we hand-select…

The grain of a maple tree slab swirls fluidly, creating unique eye-catching patterns. No two slabs are exactly alike which…

Our client on this project came to us with a fair measure of knowledge, being a woodworker herself, and knew she wanted a substantial walnut slab for her airy Newton Victorian. We landed on the “book…

This project, an eight-foot live-edge walnut dining table paired with a 50-inch round milled walnut coffee table, demonstrates one of our favorite capabilities here at Cannon Hill - the ability to…

This walnut table and bench set is about as "instant classic" as it gets but is a great example of the versatility of walnut. This table is in Southern Mass, in a Cape style home that has been…

A classic farmhouse table! The color blends beautifully into this open and bright space with its grey and blue accents. …

This live edge walnut table slab came from Berkshire Products. It required some shaping on our end to make it more functional as it had a pretty large scoop in it. The brass bowtie inlays were powder…

This client came to us because their family was getting older, and they felt it was time to replace the beat-up old kitchen table they’d used and abused for years as the kids grew up. As the children…

Rather than having conventional legs or a base, this bar-height table features a double waterfall. That is, the tabletop continues seamlessly down to the floor at right angles on each end, like water…

This solid walnut table was commissioned by a designer on behalf of a client who wanted a specific design they'd seen before, in a very specific size for their space, and out of real hardwood walnut (…

This live edge walnut slab is possibly is the most gorgeous slab to ever come through the doors at Cannon Hill Woodworking. It is Bastogne Walnut which is a gorgeous and rare find. The base was made…

This is a classically beautiful walnut top with an oil finish that has quite a statement for a base. The twisting steel pedestal was the idea of the client, and we provided a CAD to get it right, and…

This reclaimed oak coffee table was built custom for a repeat client who sent us a design she was hoping to achieve in a specific size out of reclaimed oak. That's often time how we do things here- we…

This ash table was the brainchild of an architect who designed it on behalf of his friend and client for a newly remodeled condo overlooking Boston Harbor. The top is ash with a brilliant white wash.…

This reclaimed oak table was delivered to the client the day of their move to Pittsburgh (yes we timed it that way). We built the base so that it could come apart in the pieces and be easier to load…

Circular tables that extend from the center, like this one, are an excellent compromise between daily utility and occasional capability. Our clients here were a young family who wanted to make the most…

This walnut dining set was one of our favorite projects to date. There is really only one way for your seating to truly match your table and this is a perfect example. The bench and table have matching…

This king bed and matching nightstand set in the Seaport began as rough, dirty, nail-ridden barn siding and went through a multi-step cleaning process in our shop to remove debris and old paint. It was…

These are seven teak tables we made for a restaurant that is being built in Revere, overlooking the water. Four of the tables are dining height and three are coffee table height. As with many of our…

We love it when the design process for a piece leads us into territory we don’t often visit, and it’s especially gratifying when we can use the techniques and expertise that we bring to bear every day…

This ten-foot maple trestle table lives just steps from the beach in a beautiful, sunny Falmouth home. As these pictures show, the dining area is bathed in stunning natural light and the designer we…

Sturdy 8/4 white oak with a subtle whitewash and spray finish that cuts the tan colors and softens the contrast between the tans and browns of the oak. The white was gives the entire table a softer…

When we’re building custom furniture for an office, like this conference table for a software company here in Boston, a whole host of considerations enter the conversation that aren’t present in our…