01 / Dining
Grenade Table with Skull Chairs
A full dining set built around a grenade carved from stacked timber, with skull-back chairs and a thick glass top that lets the grain read straight through.
Handcrafted wooden furniture
Built by hand.Built to last.
War Wood is a Ukrainian workshop making premium furniture from solid timber. Every table, dresser and chair is drawn for one room, cut once and finished by hand, so the piece that arrives carries warmth, weight and a history nobody else owns.
Made in Ukraine
Made to order
Nothing is stocked and nothing is repeated. Your piece is drawn for your room.
Solid timber
Cut to show the grain rather than hide it, then oiled so it keeps darkening for years.
Military forms in wood
Tanks, helicopters and grenades shaped entirely from timber, then scorched and oiled so the grain stands out.
Workshop built
One team from the first sketch to the day it is carried through your door.
The work
Pieces with a past
and a long future
These are not catalogue items. Each one began as raw timber on the workshop floor and ended as a piece somebody eats at, works at or passes down. Five of them below.
02 / Statement
Base of Tank Table
Made entirely of wood, down to the last track link. Hull, turret, barrel and road wheels are cut and stacked from solid timber, scorched to bring out the grain and topped with a heavy slab.
03 / Sculptural
Helicopter Table
Shaped entirely from timber in the workshop, part furniture and part model, built up panel by panel before finishing.
04 / Made to order
Custom Table
Your length, your timber, your finish, carried on forged ironwork. The piece that starts as a sketch on the workshop wall and ends in your room.
05 / Made to order
Solid Oak Terrarium
Handmade entirely from solid oak: edge-glued panels, a sliding glass front, two lift-up glazed lids and splayed legs that bring it up to viewing height. A proper piece of furniture for the animal that lives in it, built to any size.
Custom furniture
Original designs,
made to order
Tell us the room and we design into it. We take the measurements, talk through how the piece will actually be used, then sketch until the proportions are right. You pick the timber from what is in the rack, you see the joinery before it is glued and you sign off the finish before it goes on.
- Drawings and a fixed price before anything is cut.
- Timber chosen with you, board by board.
- Progress photos from the workshop as the piece goes together.
- Hand finished, cured and delivered by the people who built it.
Fitted interior, built and installed
How it works
Four steps from
idea to delivery
No showroom, no middleman and no surprises at the end. Here is the whole process.
Step 01
Talk it through
You send the room, the rough size and anything you have seen that you like. We come back with questions and a direction, not a sales pitch.
Step 02
Sketch and quote
You get drawings, a timber proposal and a fixed price. Nothing goes on the saw until you are happy with all three.
Step 03
Build by hand
Joinery, carving, shaping and assembly all happen in one workshop, and photos come to you as the piece takes shape.
Step 04
Finish and deliver
Oiled or lacquered by hand, left to cure properly, then wrapped, delivered and set in place.
The material
Wood first, always
The shape gives a piece its shock. The wood is what you actually live with. Even our tanks and helicopters are timber all the way through. We work in solid wood rather than veneer over board, cut so the figure runs where the eye goes, and finish with oils that leave the surface open. It marks, it darkens, it picks up the room it stands in, and that is the point.
Furniture should be heavier than it looks, older every year, and impossible to mistake for anybody else's.
Previous projects
Out of the workshop
How the pieces actually get made: six builds, from bare timber to finished work. Click any photo to see it full size.
01
Helicopter Table, start to finish
Every part of the fuselage, the engines, the rotor hub and the tail boom is cut and stacked from solid timber, then glued and screwed so it will carry a tabletop for decades. Once the frame for the top is fitted, the whole piece is scorched to bring up the grain.
6 photos
02
Base of Tank Table, scorched and lacquered
The tank is assembled track link by track link, scorched with a torch, then sealed with lacquer so the burnt grain turns a deep amber and stays that way.
3 photos
03
Skull Chairs and the Grenade Table
The skull chair backs and the tabletop start as glued pine panels, cut out by hand, sanded and scorched. The grenade base under the glass is wood too, stacked from dozens of end-grain blocks so the rings show on every face.
5 photos
04
High-Back Armchairs
Spartan helmets, grenades and pointed ovals: the backs are cut by hand from glued pine panels and the chairs are built in batches. Each one is assembled raw and checked for fit, then scorched to bring out the grain.
5 photos
05
Dressers, Cabinets and Storage
Carcasses in clamps, raw pine before the stain goes on, finished pieces in the rooms they were built for.
6 photos
06
Outdoor Pavilion
Not everything fits through a door. This open-sided pavilion has a hipped roof, white columns and a ceiling lined with tongue-and-groove pine, divided by white beams, with built-in lights and fans.
5 photos
Charity
Furniture that
gives back
A portion of every sale goes to Ukrainian charities that support orphanages. It becomes holiday gifts, toys, hygiene supplies and the everyday essentials that children in care so often go without. When you commission a piece from War Wood, part of what you pay goes straight back to them.
Part of every piece we sell goes to the children who need it most.
- Holiday gifts and toys
- Soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and hygiene supplies
- Cleaning products and everyday household essentials
Commission
Tell us about
the room
Send the space, the rough size and anything you have seen that you like, a photo is plenty to start. We reply with ideas, timber options and a price. Commissions are taken in order, so the earlier you write, the sooner we can cut.