Handmade Furniture, Built by Two People Who Never Stopped Learning
In 2018 Nick bought a CNC machine... officially so he 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.
Nick is an aerospace engineer who taught himself woodworking from nothing. I had a business degree and a corporate job I needed to get out of before it took everything out of me. Neither of us had a real reason to think we could build furniture people would actually want. We just started, and we started by building for the people in front of us.
The first table was for my sister.
Liz needed a side table. We didn't know what we were doing, but we made her one anyway. People saw it and loved it, and that was the moment we started believing we might actually be able to do this, not because we'd mastered anything, but because we'd built something real for someone real, and it worked.
We still make the Liz table today.
Then a wine table changed everything.
That one went viral on TikTok. Suddenly it wasn't just Liz who wanted a table, it was a lot of people we'd never met, who saw something they wanted for their own homes. We didn't know how to run a furniture business any more than we knew how to build one, so we learned that too, out loud, mostly in real time. That table gave us our first real shop.
Then we learned again, for 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 or redesign the whole house. I just wanted to sit with my kid without it being a production.
So Nick engineered something new and I built it, for him specifically, the same way we'd built for Liz. That's the Everyday Set.
That's kind of the whole pattern.
Every piece that's actually worked started the same way: someone specific needed something specific, and we figured out how to make it. Not "here's a nice table," but "here's what Liz needed" or "here's what would actually survive our toddler." We learn by building for someone.
Which is why the next part matters to us: we don't just want to keep building for our own people. We want to help you build for yours whatever that actually looks like in your house, your family, your version of this.
The next thing we're learning.
We just moved from Ohio to Western New York, into a house with a pole barn we're turning into a real shop. We have no idea what we're doing with half of it yet, and we're filming that too, on YouTube: the demo, the mistakes, the parts that don't work the first time.
Alongside that, we're building out a library of CNC files and build plans, so the things we've learned to build for our people are things you can build for yours whether or not you own a CNC.
As heard on
— How I Built This with Guy Raz (Advice Line episode, May 2026)
— De-Stress the Nest, Episode 94, "Boundaries That Every Mom Building a Business Needs"
Who we are
Nick designs and engineers every piece. I handle production, the business side, and now most of what you see on camera. Frankie supervises from his own table and occasionally sits exactly where we're trying to work. There's another one on the way, due this December, so if the posting schedule gets a little unpredictable this winter, that's why.
We're not a big company. We're not experts who started this way. We're two people who kept building for whoever needed something next, and we think that's a better reason to trust us than if we'd started out with a five-year plan.
— Kristina & Nick
Come build with us.
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