Rural Modern Furniture

Rural Modern Furniture designs are drawn from the timeworn architectural elements and primitive constructions found in and around the old houses, camps and barns across rural Maine. My original handcrafted wood furniture reimagines these features in a distinct style that's fresh, witty, colorful, whimsical, beautiful, useful and one of a kind.

I am Brian Haddock and I am the designer and builder of Rural Modern Furniture. My designs are drawn from memories of my experiences growing up on an old farm in rural Maine combined with my life long interest in architecture and craft and contemporary design. I opened my craft business as a one man shop in 1974 and closed the business in 2020. The business grew over the years to encompass house carpentry, new home construction, old house renovation, historic house preservation, cabinet work, architectural millwork, and furniture design and manufacturing. After a brief rest to catch my breath, I've headed back to the future working in a one man shop designing and building handcrafted wood furniture.

All Rural Modern Furniture is constructed using select grade Eastern White Pine. The furniture is all solid timber. No remanufactured wood materials are used. And no nails. No staples. Eastern White Pine is a strong albeit light wood and is easily worked making it an ideal material to use to construct houses and barns as well as cabinets and furniture. There are many 18th century constructions made with white pine that are still in use today. The natural color of the lumber ranges from a light cream to a light orange. The light orange is called pumpkin pine and is found in older, wider boards. The beauty of the grain patterns in white pine are accentuated when the lumber is finished with the Rural Modern waterborne stains.

No brown furniture here! Enliven your home with colors. The Rural Modern Furniture colors are custom mixed semi-transparent safe water based stains that are applied by hand and then finished with a clear water-based sealer. The color "white pine" is natural white pine finished with a clear sealer without any added stain color. Color samples will vary slightly depending on how the different pine chips absorb the stain. You are able to order sample color chips on the "In Stock" page.