A joiner in a canvas apron hand-planing a walnut board on an old oak workbench in the OAK & ADZE workshop, with an oak cabinet behind him

Joinery workshop · Baabdat, Metn

Cut to your walls.
Built to outlive them.

Kitchens, wardrobes, shelving, doors and stairs, drawn to the millimetre and made by hand in our Metn workshop. Draw yours now and see a price range before anyone visits.

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2009Workshop opened in Baabdat

1,140Pieces fitted across Lebanon

72 hEvery board settles before it is cut

10 yrsGuarantee on joinery and carcasses

№ 01

Start with a drawing.

Pick what you are building. Change the size, wood and handles, and the elevation, cut list and price redraw as you go.

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From board to built-in.

Chapter I

Choose the board.

Every job starts at the timber rack, not on a screen. You pick the boards, we chalk your name on them and let them settle for 72 hours.

A fan of oak, walnut, beech and cherry samples on a workbench

Chapter II

Plane it true.

Rough-sawn stock is flattened, thicknessed and squared. Machines do the heavy cuts; the last pass is a hand plane, because you can feel the difference.

Chapter III

Join, don’t screw.

Dovetails, mortise and tenon, and dominoes where they belong. Screws are for hinges. Every carcass is dry-fitted in the workshop before it is finished.

Chisels, a hand plane and sash clamps on a workbench covered in shavings

Chapter IV

Fit to the millimetre.

Two fitters, one or two days, dust sheets down. Scribed to your walls, levelled to your floor, and adjusted again three months later.

Oak bedroom built-ins around a bed with storage headboard

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Seven trades, one workshop.

All services

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Recent work, measured and fitted.

All projects

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Four woods, four characters.

Species guide

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Six steps from brief to fitted.

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What clients tell us.

Sample reviews

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Questions, answered straight.

Workshop hours

Main road, Baabdat, Metn. Showroom corner by the timber rack.

Site visits

Free in Metn. Fees are taken off your deposit if you go ahead.

Tell us about your walls. We will bring the tape.

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Services

Seven trades under one roof.

From a single floating shelf to a full kitchen and staircase. Everything is drawn, cut, joined and finished in Baabdat, then fitted by the people who made it.

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Work

Measured, made and fitted.

Every project here started as a tape measure and a phone photo. Open one to see the photo and the shop drawing we built it from.

Made-to-measure configurator

Draw it. Price it. Build it.

Drag the tape or type your sizes. The drawing, cut list and price range redraw from the same rates we quote with.

Elevation

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Cut list

Price range, made and fitted

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How it adds up

Indicative, from the same board, hardware and workshop rates we quote with. Excludes VAT (11%) and appliances. The site survey confirms walls, floors and access.

Saved designs

Species guide

Know your wood.

Four materials cover nine jobs in ten. Here is how they look raw, oiled and lacquered, how hard they are, how much they move, and what they cost in your configurator.

Fan of wood samples in oak, walnut, beech and cherry on a workbench

Compare

Side by side, honestly.

Finishes

What goes on top.

Hard-wax oil

Soaks in, leaves the grain open and feels like wood. Scratches can be spot-repaired with a cloth. Our default for tables, stairs and oak fronts.

Re-oil every 2–3 years

Water-based lacquer

A thin, clear, matt film that shrugs off water rings and kitchen splashes. Barely changes the colour of the wood.

Kitchens and bathrooms

2K pigmented lacquer

Sprayed in our booth over MDF in any colour you bring in, matt or satin. Hard enough for handleless push-to-open fronts.

Adds one week for curing

The workshop

A workshop, not a showroom.

OAK & ADZE started in 2009 with one bench in a Baabdat garage. Today fourteen of us cut, join, finish and fit from a 640 m² workshop on the main road, and we still answer the phone ourselves.

Chisels, a hand plane and sash clamps on a dog-holed workbench covered in oak shavings

Why we work this way

Machines for the heavy cuts. Hands for the rest.

A panel saw and CNC give us accuracy you can measure in tenths of a millimetre. But a drawer that slides like it is on air, or a door that closes with one finger after a mountain winter, comes from fitting by hand.

We build every carcass as its own box, so a unit can be lifted out, repaired or moved to your next home. We seal every face, including the ones you will never see.

640 m²Workshop and timber store in Baabdat

14Joiners, finishers and fitters

72 hEvery board acclimatises before cutting

3 moFree adjustment visit after fitting

Process

Six steps, no surprises.

People

The hands behind it.

Guarantees

In writing, on every job.

10 years

On joinery and carcasses. If a joint opens or a panel moves, we come back and fix it.

2 years

On hinges, runners, sliding gear and handles. Replaced on site, parts and labour included.

3 months

After fitting we visit again to adjust doors and drawers once the wood has settled into your home.

Where we work

From Jbeil to Saida, out of Metn.

Quote & site visit

Tell us about your walls.

We reply within one working day. Book a site survey below and Lina will confirm it on your preferred channel.

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Workshop inbox.

Every quote request, configurator drawing and WhatsApp chat from the site lands here. Ten sample leads are included so you can see it working.

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