Today, Stephen C. Staples is focusing on the desires of the discerning buyer who is searching for durable construction in their furniture investment as well as the classic, timeless look, which is in demand today.   Staples Cabinet Makers' furniture has the old country look and feel of yesteryear.   Stephen C. Staples has developed his own style of finishes as well as created a secret milk paint formula that makes the viewer wonder if the paint has adorned the piece for hundreds of years.  Each layer of finish or paint is meticulously applied layer after layer with Stephen's artistic eye for a sense of balance and unity in over-all composition to provide a structured, logical look, subtle yet pleasing, allowing the inherent purity of line and form to speak directly to the viewer.  The gorgeous finishes on his pieces create a comfortable, inviting atmosphere that is irresistible to the eye.

-1999-

Sometimes after a hard day's work... we all just need a rest.  It's just a matter of where we find to be comfortable.

30 years later, Stephen is still as chipper and creative as ever.  Does this guy ever quit?

About the Company

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We make friends, not customers.  You're always greeted with a smile...

Staples Cabinet Makers is a small company located in Plainville, Massachusetts, owned by Stephen and Christine Staples.  Stephen and Christine are devoted to handcrafting high-quality furniture.  Their inspiration to create is given to them by the stories held within the reclaimed lumber removed from the age-old homes and barns throughout New England.  They use this lumber, after careful removal, to create some of the most beautiful pieces of furniture art in the world (at least we like to think so!).

Staples Cabinet Makers pours the distilled knowledge gained from years of restoring fine antiques into their furniture art.  Over the many years of restoring antiques, and studying the methodologies of early New England craftsmen, Stephen and Christine were able to gain unprecedented talent and artistic ability with wood.  The Cabinet Makers here at Staples Cabinet Makers not only know every device employed by those past masters, but have studied their numerous finishing techniques.  Stephen takes extreme pride in giving his knowledge to his craftsmen in order to produce what some may say is "the most beautiful furniture I have ever seen".

Stephen Staples and Chris Parker first met in the 9th grade when they were 15.  They graduated high school in 1969 and were married in 1971.  While Stephen was studying to become a marine engineer and Chris attended Johnson & Wales College to become an executive assistant, they started collecting and restoring antiques for their first apartment. 

In 1973, Stephen decided a life at sea was not for him and Chris quit working as a full-time executive assistant and part-time model.  The couple started a small furniture stripping and refinishing company in Norton, Massachusetts and the rest, well as they say it is "HISTORY"!

 

Photo's circa 1969-1970, before they were married.   Finishing the legs of our first kitchen table.	It all began as a hobby for Chris and Stephen Staples...   Finishing the top.
A final coat of finish.	Attaching the drop leaves.
Attaching the legs.	The finished table.
We proudly show the efforts of our labors.	To Chris, the ideal hope chest was a magnificent old tool box.
Applying the stain.	Chris' hope chest and bureau in her bedroom before our first apartment.
An old cutting oil jug would be their first living room lamp.
Stripping a small table revealed the words "Providence Line", a steamship company running from Fall River to Providence,  on the top of the table.
This table, finished 37 years ago, now holds a printer in Chris' office.
Sanding this bureau shows one heavily painted drawer not yet stripped.	Chris staining bureau top.
Finished bureau in Chris' bedroom.  Notice Stephen's high school picture on top of bureau.
We have grown over the past 34 years into a company that specializes in furniture made from reclaimed wood and recycled materials.    According to "Audubon Magazine's Nov/Dec 2006 issue" Staples Cabinet Makers is part of a budding industry that aims to provide consumers with more sound alternatives to conventional home furniture made from trees logged unsustainably in tropical rainforest."