Rearranging Restaurant Furniture
How often do you walk into your favorite restaurant and find they've rearranged? *awkward pause while I anticipate inquisitive looks* Yeah, me either. Everything is in exactly the same place, or there has been a recent [...]
Minimalism and furniture
As with many Americans, I grow tired of clutter, things, and stuff, and I'm enamored with minimalism, though with my Amazon Prime account and 4 kids, I struggle to achieve it. I may not [...]
What’s new in the shop… this year
We love making booths. Our upholstery department has been having a great time with some new custom booths, with some great fabrics and finishes that we all can't help but get excited about! [...]
Christmas 2017 at Minnesota Millwork & Fixtures
On Saturday Randall and Cindy treated us, their employees, to a nice dinner and some fantastic entertainment, celebrating another great year of working together. Having a look back, what a terrific year it's been! We have doubled [...]
Santa visits Minnesota Millwork & Fixtures
Santa made his 2nd annual visit to Minnesota Millwork and Fixtures on Saturday to visit our employees' families. Few if any warnings for behavior were issued; it appeared everyone who came made the nice list this [...]
What’s new in the shop…
Booths! Our upholstery team is hard at it with some fantastic seating in the works. They have turned out some beautiful pieces lately! These ladies (and [...]
Employee Bowling Outing
All work and no play... well you fill in the blank. Our guys have been giving it all lately, October was a busy month for us and our team pushed it. To thank them, we organized a [...]
Lumber sale!
We've got a surplus of lumber for building•home improvement•craft•burning! Priced to move, approximately $50-200 per bundle. Also some table tops and misc. One day only: Saturday, November 4, 8-11AM. Loading dock area. 823 Industrial Park Drive [...]
Minnesota Millwork goes Global
Having worked for restaurants in every state in the union, Canada and Puerto Rico, we've shipped to some far off places. Now shipping, of all places, to Guam. In case you're wondering, it's a [...]
Bar Building
We've been making beautiful (oops, not supposed to say that about your own work. Well it's true.) back bars for years. Just one example that we've made several variations of for the Olive Garden: [...]
New booth design!
We love designing custom pieces for our customers. So when we had the opportunity to work with the design team for one of our favorite repeat customers on a new booth design we were thrilled to make them [...]
It’s official!
One year ago, Randall Rivers purchased R&L Woodcraft from Randy and Lori Stangler. It's been a great year! Business is good, we're enjoying our work, we're growing and placing an emphasis on building our team. It's [...]
Happy Birthday Minnesota Millwork & Fixtures!
Next week marks the one year anniversary of the sale of R&L Woodcraft from Randy and Lori Stangler to Randall and Cindy Rivers. While we've been planning the name change all year, it is also the day [...]
Project Complete: Apres Rental
When I first met Andrea & Kimi from Apres Rental they "warned" me that they get attached to people, so I'd better follow through and call them back. I knew right then we'd hit it off. [...]
Project Completed: Harry’s Cafe
Harry's opened in Lakeville 19 years ago, and has been a local favorite ever since. They have a large menu, and serve a large menu very well. Harry and his staff were terrific [...]
Project Complete: New Booth Cushions for Teahouse Restaurant
If it isn't broken, don't fix it. The owner of the Teahouse Chinese Restaurant in Plymouth contacted us about the booths in their restaurant. We took a look and agreed that their booths had seen better days, [...]