Distinctly Montana Magazine

w w w . d i s t i n c t l y m o n t a n a . c o m 69 "The process is as simple or detailed as required to accomplish our clients' wishes," Todd adds. "It is very exciting when we work together in finishing and furnishing an entire home. The quality of our furniture and the wide variety of styles and custom possibilities makes a home very personal, whether mod- ern or traditional." Speaking of your entire home, you can easily get everything done with Todd and his team. In addition to the standard selection of household furniture, Black Timber also crafts vanities, countertops, barn doors, built-in cabinetry, and barn doors. If you can imagine it, they can con- jure it into existence from the raw wood. Even if you're just looking to freshen up an existing space, a few custom bookcases, a bar cabinet, or an entry-seated coat rack will do wonders for an existing home that needs some new style to make it feel fresh again. Black Timber employs the finest crafts- men, and the quality is evident in everything they put their minds and callused Montanan hands to crafting. Though based in southwest Montana, Black Timber has placed tables, beds, desks, chest of drawers, and everything in between in homes, hotels, banks, resorts, lodges, com- mercial offices, and universities throughout the nation, and they're beginning to get the recognition that their work deserves. For all that, they're still very much a Mon- tana company which means that buying a piece of furniture from Black Timber Furni- ture is buying local. There are obvious ben- efits to buying local, like keeping money in the state and helping to support Montana's working families. Buying Black Timber Fur- niture also means buying from a Veteran Owned small business and supporting mil- itary veteran craftsmen, and that's about as Distinctly Montana as anything can be. There are also plenty of practical reasons to buy local, including greatly reduced lead times and no long and frustrating delivery. Finally, as an alternative to the Swedish metaphysical hell of Ikea—you don't have to put it together yourself only to have it col- lapse in a heap about a year later. Here's to local, veteran-owned Montana businesses and furniture that'll still be here for centuries. Or, as Todd says, "Our core business derives from creating furniture col- lections that stand the test of time." a s s o l i d a n d m i g h t y a s o n e o f t h e i r l e g e n d a r y c h e r r y w o o d b a r n d o o r s . photos by TOM RATH

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