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For most, personal style and functionality determine furniture choices for every room in the house. Except the bedroom, which typically falls under the same rules, but with a twist.  When choosing furniture for living and dining areas, we often think about accommodating others: friends, family, gatherings. With the bedroom it’s all about “me.”

For most, personal style and functionality determine furniture choices for every room in the house. Except the bedroom, which typically falls under the same rules, but with a twist.  When choosing furniture for living and dining areas, we often think about accommodating others: friends, family, gatherings. With the bedroom it’s all about “me.”

Good forestry can support many kinds of life. Learn how keeping key habitat features, using small sunny openings, and caring for streams helps biodiversity in hardwood forests.

Gat Creek's new Performance Finish delivers commercial-grade durability, remarkable clarity, and a safer, formaldehyde-free finish; so your furniture stays beautiful no matter what life throws at it.

Gat Creek's new Performance Finish delivers commercial-grade durability, remarkable clarity, and a safer, formaldehyde-free finish; so your furniture stays beautiful no matter what life throws at it.

Discover custom-made dining tables from our new Custom Shop. Choose from ten styles and tailor every detail to suit your space and taste, from material and finish to size and edges. Experience our AR tool to visualize your creation in your home. Craft your perfect dining table with us.

Learn about the durability and restoration potential of solid wood pieces through the eyes of expert restorer John Mark Power. Explore the challenges of modern veneered furniture and the unmatched beauty and resilience of Appalachian hardwoods. This article delves into the art of furniture restoration, showcasing how quality materials and craftsmanship ensure your Gat Creek furniture can be transformed and cherished for generations.

About 90% of the furniture sold in the U.S. is made overseas where lax working and environmental standards make for easier profits. Those economics mean few “experts” see furniture manufacturing ever coming back to America. Of course, if Gat Creek listened to the experts we wouldn’t be here. And we definitely wouldn’t have invested in an expansion that doubles our capacity to create more choices, faster delivery, and a bright future for our employees, our Appalachian Hardwood forests, and our town.

How fortunate we are to wake every morning in the middle of one of the world’s unique treasures. The Appalachian Hardwood forest, wellspring of the finest furniture making material in the world, covers 200,000 square miles of spectacular high country, from New York to Alabama. The story of this ecoregion spans epochs, enfolds massive geological events and, as it has for generations, touches the lives and livelihoods of friends and neighbors. Dive into the history of Appalachian Hardwoods and, like us, be amazed and grateful.