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Notes from the woodshop in Tilarán — guides on choosing wood, commissioning custom furniture in Costa Rica, and how our pieces are made.

Dining tables

Live-edge dining tables in Costa Rica: what to know

Choosing the slab, how thick a top should be, what the base does, sizing the table by seats, what it costs, and how solid wood behaves in a tropical climate.

Nosara live-edge Guanacaste dining table on a raw-steel V-base, made in Tilarán, Costa Rica

Commissioning

Commissioning custom furniture in Costa Rica: process, cost, and timeline

The five steps of a commission, honest cost ranges from real recent work, what moves the price, and how long a piece really takes.

Costa Rican hardwood slabs stacked in the Bernardo Urbina workshop, Tilarán

Materials

Guanacaste wood: grain, hardness, and how it compares to Teak and Cenizaro

What each wood is — grain, color, hardness, movement — what each does best, and the honest trade-offs we tell every client before they choose.

Guanacaste wood grain on the La Paz single-slab dining table — warm golden brown with a natural live edge