We welcome the opportunity to be creative.
If you can imagine it, we can build it.
Stark Mountain is a full service custom Vermont woodworking company.
We create elegantly functional and uniquely beautiful products for architects, designers, contractors, and homeowners. Our work ranges from custom cabinetry for homes and offices to furniture and architectural millwork for museums, libraries, and colleges.
Each job that comes into our shop is unique. Some begin as napkin sketches and others arrive as detailed architectural plans. We enjoy every step of the process – from collaborating with clients to get an understanding of their vision, through design and material selection, detailed 2D and 3D shop drawings, fabrication, finishing, final assembly and installation. For us, figuring out how a project will be built, how it will work and how it will look, is both our passion and our business.
Much of our work is for existing clients who have come to know the quality of our products and appreciate our high level of service. We make their jobs easier by anticipating problems and suggesting solutions; by understanding and caring about their entire project, not just the part we own.
Wood is our primary medium.
We never tire of its warmth, beauty and versatility.
We also recognize the value of this renewable, sustainable material, and whenever possible we make use of locally sourced woods. To that end, we have added a bandsaw mill and vacuum kiln to our lineup. This allows us complete control of our material from tree to finish product. A large percentage of the material we use on a daily basis was grown within a 30-mile radius of our facility. Stark Mountain has been FSC-certified since 2001.
Though we favor locally sourced materials, we also enjoy working with exotic woods and veneers, and welcome the opportunity to incorporate metals, glass, resins, and composites. Over the years we have worked with many unusual natural materials including bamboo, straw, cork, leather, shagrine and parchment. We have a full metal shop capable of high-level architectural finishes in a variety of metals including stainless and bronze.
Finishing is one of our key strengths. We produce a broad range of finishes for wood and other materials, ranging from high gloss polyurethane to hand-rubbed French polish.
In a cabinetry shop,
There is no substitute for hands-on experience
Stark Mountain is located in New Haven, Vermont, population 1800. We began as a small two-person operation in 1993 and have gradually expanded to a team of 20+, working in a 24,000 square foot facility.
In a cabinetry shop, there is no substitute for hands-on experience. Yet technology has helped us improve both our processes and our products. We are able to produce high volume custom millwork with exacting tolerances. We use AutoCAD, DataCAD, AlphaCam, and Cabinet Vision to create shop drawings with a high level of detail that become an extension of the design process. With sophisticated design software and extraordinary machinery, we are working smarter and more efficiently, while generating far less waste.
Some of the equipment we use on a daily basis includes a SCMI 3 axis CNC router, Biesse 5 axis CNC router, Weinig 5-Head Moulder, Viet 52” 3 head belt abrasive sander, Biesse Edge Bander, and myriad of supporting equipment. We also have a state-of-the-art finishing room and spray booth.
From start to finish,
Every project that comes into our shop is assigned a team that follows it Through.
Though woodworking is traditionally a solo pursuit, we have found that a team approach results in a better product. Insights often come from unlikely places.
Most of us have been working with wood for our entire lives, and we share a common love of the material and the craft. Our 20-person shop is united around a shared goal: to exceed expectations — for ourselves, for our teams and for our clients.
Inspired by the idea that good planets are hard to find,
We’re committed to keeping our environmental footprint as small as possible.
We installed a 54 KW solar array on a hillside about 10 minutes from our shop and have an additional 34 KW installed on our shop. Between the two arrays we are about 60% toward our goal of being net-zero by 2027.
Our shop and offices are heated with the sawdust and scrap wood that we generate on site. A pelletizer compresses the sawdust into briquettes and we stockpile scrap wood throughout the year. When winter comes, a high efficiency wood furnace keeps us toasty on even the coldest days.
In 2006, we established a bike-to-work initiative to increase the well-being of our staff and reduce the environmental impact of commuting. Since its inception, our employees have logged over 145,000 miles cycling to and from work. Using EPA calculations, this has saved 75 tons of carbon emissions and 295 pounds of volatile organic compounds from being discharged into the atmosphere.
