Three ways to work with Mark

Most furniture is built to fit a showroom floor and shipped in a flat box. Mark builds furniture to fit your actual room — your ceiling height, your existing pieces, the way your family lives. If the dimensions on the tag don't work for you, that's what custom is for.

Every project starts with a conversation: what you need, what wood you have in mind (or what Mark recommends for the job), and how it needs to function. Then comes a firm quote — no vague estimates, no surprise invoices. Once you approve it, Mark gets to work.

The joinery is real. Mortise & tenon connections, dovetails where they belong, proper wood movement accommodations. These aren't decorative choices — they're the reason a Borman piece will outlast the house it goes into.

Mark teaches woodworking the way he learned it — by doing. Classes are kept small (never more than six students) so everyone gets real hands-on time with the tools and the material. You're not watching a demonstration; you're building something.

The focus is on fundamentals that most hobbyists skip: how to read grain direction, how to get a truly flat surface, how to cut a clean mortise by hand. These are the skills that separate furniture that holds for fifty years from furniture that warps and splits in five.

No experience required. If you've never picked up a hand plane, Mark will start from the beginning. If you have some experience and want to go deeper on joinery, he can work at that level too. Every class ends with a finished project you take home.

The same attention that goes into a $2,000 dining table goes into a $60 cutting board. Mark shapes each piece by hand from the same quality hardwoods — no imported blanks, no mass-produced shapes. Every board is food-safe finished and built to improve with use.

These make remarkable gifts. People who wouldn't spend $1,500 on a custom dresser will use a well-made wooden spoon every single day for twenty years. That's its own kind of legacy.

Kitchen pieces are generally available much faster than furniture — many are ready in one to two weeks. Custom engraving and personalization are available for gifts.