Handmade Kids Furniture, Built by Two Parents in Dayton, Ohio
In 2018 Nick bought a CNC machine — officially so I could make all the silly things I kept pointing at in Home Goods. Turns out it was also a pretty good way to hide an engagement ring purchase on the credit card statement.
Then we bought a house, started making furniture, and somewhere in the middle of all of it I realized I needed to get out of my corporate job before it took everything out of me.
I needed to make a change. I've always wanted to work with my hands and build something of my own.
Nick is an aerospace engineer who taught himself woodworking. I have a business degree and handle everything else — marketing, operations, customer relationships, and the actual manufacturing. We both learned as we went. We still are.
For the first five years we built the business around one table design — a piece that started as a gift for my sister, went viral on TikTok, and grew into something we never expected. That success gave us our commercial shop and the foundation to start building something new.
Then we had our son.
Once he started moving, our living room stopped working for us.
Everything became "don't touch that." I didn't want to send play to another room. I didn't want to redesign our whole house. I just wanted to sit on the floor with my kid without it being a whole thing.
So Nick engineered it and I built it. We put it in our living room. And we couldn't unsee how much better everything felt.
That's the Everyday Set. And it's what Twenty Five and Pine is now.
What we believe.
You shouldn't have to choose between a home you love and a kid who feels at home in it.
Those things aren't opposites.
They just need the right furniture.
Who we are.
Nick designs and engineers every piece. I build everything in our commercial shop in Dayton, Ohio. Frankie supervises from his own table and occasionally sits exactly where we're trying to work.
We're not a big company. We're not a factory. We're two people who built something for our own family and genuinely think it might work for yours too.
Every piece ships from our hands to your home.
— Kristina & Nick