About Ovelatee

Modern Rustic Handcrafted Wood Tables — Established 2024

Craft & Vision

Homes feel warmer when the objects inside are made with intention. At Ovelatee, we design modern rustic tables with honest lines, comfortable proportions, and finishes that let the wood speak for itself. Guided by everyday living, our makers turn solid materials into calm, lasting forms that settle naturally into your space—from coffee tables and dining tables to console and side tables.

Nature & Sustainability

What we use matters. We build with responsibly sourced, kiln-dried hardwoods and select softwoods, favoring traceable supply chains and low-VOC, wood-safe finishes. The idea is simple: create tables that look beautiful, feel good to live with, and treat the environment with care.

Functional Beauty, Every Day

We like design that quietly earns its place. Each table is made to invite gathering and stand up to daily use—hosting meals, holding books and laptops, and framing conversation. Surfaces are easy to care for, joinery is engineered for stability, and finishes protect while highlighting the grain. The goal is furniture that pleases the eye—and the hand—over time.

Who We Are

Founded in 2024, Ovelatee is a small studio of designers and craftspeople who love working with natural materials. From our workshop in Naples, Florida, we build and ship directly to our customers, keeping pricing sensible, quality consistent, and communication personal. Our team collaborates across design, fabrication, finishing, and client care so that every table feels considered at every step.

What We Make

Ovelatee centers its craft on modern rustic, handcrafted wood tables—coffee, dining, side, and console—built for daily use and quiet character. We work primarily in white oak, black walnut, hard maple, and ash, with occasional lots of cherry for warmer tones. For a small studio, scale matters: we typically purchase 350–700 board feet of kiln-dried lumber per month in mixed species, arriving at 6–8% moisture content and acclimated in our shop for 7–10 days before milling. Boards average 8–12 inches wide and 8–12 feet long, allowing us to compose tops from 2–4 matched planks rather than many narrow staves, which preserves the wood’s larger, more natural figure.

Each table is available ready-to-ship in our core sizes, or made-to-order with tailored dimensions, edge profiles, base styles, and finishes. Coffee tables commonly range from 42–54 inches long, dining tables from 72–96 inches, and console tables from 48–72 inches, with tops typically 1.0–1.25 inches thick for coffee and side tables and 1.25–1.5 inches for dining. Frames and aprons are engineered for strength and seasonal movement: we use elongated fastener slots, floating buttons, or Z-clips so tops expand and contract naturally, and we proportion rails to keep spans stiff without visual heaviness. For steel bases, we partner with local metal fabricators using A500 structural tubing and A36 plate, finished in powder coat for durability; wooden bases are laminated and oriented for grain strength at joints to resist racking.

Surfaces receive protective oil or lacquer finishes that are safe for everyday living. Our standard film builds to 3–5 mils for lacquered tops, while oil-finished tops receive two to three coats with a light wax burnish. With simple care—soft-cloth dusting, prompt spill cleanup, and avoiding prolonged direct sun or standing moisture—Ovelatee tables remain sturdy, stable, and gracefully age for years, developing a natural sheen where hands and objects meet the surface most.

Key suppliers we work with include Weyerhaeuser, Baillie Lumber Co., Rex Lumber, Baird Brothers Fine Hardwoods, and Bell Forest Products for kiln-dried hardwoods; McMaster-Carr and Häfele for hardware and fasteners; General Finishes, Rubio Monocoat, and Osmo for finishes; and Titebond III for adhesive work. These names matter because consistent input quality lets a small shop like ours produce tables that feel calm to the eye and confident under daily use.

How We Build — From Raw Wood to Refined Form

Everything begins with the boards themselves. We select stock for balanced moisture, straight, stable grain, and structural clarity—rejecting pieces with hidden checks or twist beyond what jointing can safely remove. Typical incoming lots are 100–250 board feet per species, enough to match color and figure across a build cycle without forcing pattern compromises. Once acclimated, we joint, plane, and sticker components to rest again overnight so internal stresses settle before glue-up.

Precision comes from CNC routing and careful milling, but the character comes from the hand. We use CNC for mortises, joinery pockets, alignment keys, and repeatable parts on tops and bases, holding dimensional tolerances to ±0.25 mm on critical joints and flatness within 1.5 mm per meter after final surfacing. Edges and profiles are then hand-refined: arrises are eased to a comfortable radius, chamfers are tuned by eye so they catch light softly, and transitions where hands meet wood—table edges, underside grips, and leg corners—are shaped until they feel naturally “quiet” to the touch.

Our surface workflow is progressive sanding through 120 → 150 → 180 → 220 grit (and 320 on oil finishes), with grain-raising and a light resand to keep fibers from standing up after finishing. We apply penetrating oils for open-pored species that benefit from depth and warmth, or catalyzed lacquer where a tougher film is desired—always aiming for clarity that highlights the grain rather than obscures it. Oils cure in 24–48 hours per coat depending on ambient humidity; lacquer schedules are built around light, even passes with sufficient flash time to avoid witness lines.

Before a table leaves our shop, we run a multi-point quality check: we verify top flatness, ensure joinery is tight without telegraphing, confirm hardware torque, inspect finish clarity under raking light, and test stability on a calibrated surface plate. For dining tables, we stress-check racking resistance by applying lateral pressure at opposing corners; for larger spans, we confirm deflection under a distributed 50–75 kg test load stays within our internal spec. These are small-shop numbers designed to mirror the way furniture is actually used at home.

Custom work is a conversation. We begin with measurements, photos, and a short brief, then move to sketches or CAD drawings to dial in size, overhangs, leg placement, knee clearance, and chair spacing. Wood selection is done from photographed board sets so you can choose the figure and tone that will live with you for years. We share finish samples on the actual species, and we update you at **key milestones—lumber selection, dry fit, finish approval—**so the final table reflects your space and our craft. Typical custom builds use 60–120 board feet depending on size and base type, and move from first cut to packing in a 3–6 week window, aligning with curing and QA steps rather than rushing them.

When it’s time to ship, we pack for distance, not just appearance. Tops and bases are isolated in foam, corners are crush-protected, hardware is bagged and labeled, and surfaces are wrapped in a breathable barrier so finishes can continue to outgas safely. We include clear setup instructions and the small tools you’ll need. If anything arrives short of expectation, our team will diagnose promptly and coordinate repair, replacement, or refund in line with our policies—because the journey from raw wood to refined form isn’t complete until the table is in your home and feels right.

How We Work With You

We keep things straightforward: secure checkout (SSL), transparent timelines, and responsive support. We ship through UPS, FedEx, and DHL with tracking, pack every table for safe transit and easy setup, and aim to reply within 24 business hours. If something arrives not as expected, we’ll make it right—whether that’s a repair, replacement, or refund aligned with our policies.