The Sawdust Sanctuary

The Sawdust Sanctuary Custom furniture & objects, built by hand in Powell, Ohio. Designed for real rooms, daily rituals & lives already happening.

🐾 SHOP SUPERVISOR AVA | EPISODE 24: ON STRIKESome mornings, the supervisor simply does not feel like working.Today was o...
08/30/2026

🐾 SHOP SUPERVISOR AVA | EPISODE 24: ON STRIKE

Some mornings, the supervisor simply does not feel like working.

Today was one of those mornings.

Ava's solution:
Organize labor.
Establish a picket line.
Figure out the demands later.

Kevin briefly considered crossing.

That lasted about three seconds.

By the end of negotiations, management had apparently agreed to everything.

I was not informed there had been negotiations.

Solidarity, I guess. 😂

08/25/2026

Some parts of a build are easier to understand with your hands.

Latitude Rise is about the feel of the edge, the honesty of the wood, and the little decisions that make a finished piece feel right in the room.

08/24/2026

A place for the remotes, the drink, and the little things that somehow end up beside the couch.

This C-table started as a practical idea and turned into a lot of careful routing, handwork, and finishing. Small piece. Plenty of work in it.

🐾 SHOP SUPERVISOR AVA | EPISODE 23: THE INSPECTION FEESmall gap.Minor issue.Probably nobody would ever notice.Unfortunat...
08/23/2026

🐾 SHOP SUPERVISOR AVA | EPISODE 23: THE INSPECTION FEE

Small gap.

Minor issue.

Probably nobody would ever notice.

Unfortunately, somebody did.

Kevin asked if he should write it up.

Ava decided there was no reason to rush into paperwork before exploring... alternative resolutions.

One Greenie later:

INSPECTION RESULT: PASS. ✅

Kevin is learning a lot during this internship.

Mostly things he probably shouldn't. 😂

08/20/2026

The pretty cuts get all the attention, but this is the part that makes them possible. Before Latitude Contour can become furniture, the slab has to give us one reliable reference plane. That means the router sled, a shop full of chips, and pass after pass until the high spots are gone. It is repetitive, loud, dusty work, and it is exactly what gives every clean joint and accurate cut later a fair chance. Not glamorous. Absolutely necessary. This is where the furniture starts behaving.

08/17/2026

Meet Latitude: Rise.

At first glance, the geometry looks a little impossible: the frame was designed with an approximately five-degree lean, while every shelf stays level.

That is the quiet trick for the eye. Four live-edge Western Red Cedar shelves meet solid maple uprights through fitted all-wood joinery. Rear stabilizing feet fit within roughly eight inches of overall depth, giving the piece a surprisingly slender front-to-back profile. No metal hardware holds the structure together.

I wanted it to bring warmth and function into a room without demanding all the attention: quiet enough to belong, strange enough to make your eye come back and ask how it is standing.

Built by hand in Powell, Ohio. Price: $1,195. Powell pickup.

See the Marketplace listing: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2483233862169055/

Wall anchoring can be added for extra security in child-, pet-, or high-traffic spaces.

🐾 Shop Supervisor Ava | Episode 22: Shop SecurityFinally added a little extra security around the shop.Naturally, I chec...
08/16/2026

🐾 Shop Supervisor Ava | Episode 22: Shop Security

Finally added a little extra security around the shop.

Naturally, I checked the footage to see how things were going.

Intruders: 0
Naps: 7
Suspicious cow activity: 1

So technically, the system is working perfectly. 😂

Kevin has declined to comment on the 2:08 AM incident.

08/14/2026

Power tools do the heavy lifting. The last little bit is slower: feel the surface, get into the routed details, and keep refining until the shape reads clean everywhere.

A quick look at what’s been moving through the Powell shop: Latitude Rise across the finish line, Rooted finding its sha...
08/14/2026

A quick look at what’s been moving through the Powell shop: Latitude Rise across the finish line, Rooted finding its shape, everyday keepsakes between the bigger builds, and plenty of routing, fitting, and sawdust along the way.

The finished pieces get the clean photos. Ava supervises everything else from the middle of the lumber pile.

What should I show next—Rise, Rooted, keepsakes, or more real shop life?

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Powell, OH
43065

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+16147383845

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