About Us
It all started with a tree in 2006.
Our Story
Cherrywood Studio is a small custom furniture studio in King, Ontario. We build tables from local hardwood - trees that have reached the end of their life because of storms, disease, or development.
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Most people don’t think twice when a tree comes down.
Steve did.
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He started noticing how often mature hardwood trees were being removed and how much beautiful material was simply being thrown away - chipped, burned, or hauled off to landfill. Instead of watching that happen, he began salvaging the logs himself. He’d mill the slabs, stack them, and wait. Some pieces of wood take up to three years to dry before they’re ready to be worked with.
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It’s slow.
It’s patient.
But that’s the point.
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When a slab finally reaches the studio, the story of that tree is still visible - in every growth ring, grain line, and imperfection. We don’t hide that. We work with it. Because the character of the table doesn’t come from us - it comes from where the tree has been.
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What makes our process different is that you’re part of it. You choose the slab, the size, the finish, the base - the details that make it yours. We just guide the process and build it by hand.
A Cherrywood table doesn’t start in a catalog.
It starts with a tree, a story, and a conversation.
Meet The Maker
Steve Meschino - Founder & Maker
Cherrywood Studio began in 2006, but the story really starts much earlier. In high school, Steve’s friends called him “Cherry,” a nickname that stuck because of the similarity to his last name - Meschino, like maraschino cherry. Years later, when Steve decided to turn his woodworking hobby into a business, those same friends suggested the name Cherrywood, and it fit. Long before it became a studio, Steve was someone who loved working with his hands and had a genuine respect for wood - especially the mature hardwood trees that were being cut down across Ontario due to storms, disease, or development. Instead of watching them get chipped, burned, or discarded, he began salvaging the logs himself. He would mill the lumber, stack and dry the slabs, and slowly turn them into tables for people he knew.
Nothing about that process was fast, and that’s exactly what shaped the business into what it is today. Steve still selects every slab himself. He still mills and dries the wood onsite. He still builds each piece with patience and intention - not for volume, not for production, but because he cares where the wood came from and where it will go next. For Steve, a table is never just furniture. It’s a second life for a tree, and a starting point for the memories that will be made around it.