Stories from Fayetteville, Arkansas
The White River Journal
Design deep dives from our project portfolio, a look inside the shop and the people who run it, and profiles of the products architects and builders reach for most.
Design Deep Dives
Real projects, from a Fort Smith residence to the Baccarat Hotel, and how a design intention becomes built millwork.
Inside White River
The founders, the machines, and the people behind every order, fifty years in the making.
Product Profiles
One product at a time: what it is, how it is made, and how to choose and specify it well.
Featured · Design Deep Dive
Castle Dromborg: A Fortress Built Around Its Millwork
A stone castle in the Ozark hills, built by our founders as a proving ground for the company’s own craft, and imagined as though it had grown over centuries.
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Millwork as Architecture: A Private Residence in Fort Smith
A new Arkansas home where the woodwork was treated as structure rather than decoration.
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Hand-Carved White Oak for the Baccarat Hotel
Hundreds of large-scale carvings, drawn and cut by hand for a landmark New York hotel.
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A Classical Office, Contemporary in Its Ornament
An executive office with Nobu Archi Design of Japan, classical depth with a lighter hand.
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Design Deep Dive
From Framing to Finish: A Private Residence in Texas
Long galleries, paneled arches, and built-ins, followed from bare framing to completion.
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Design Deep Dive
Before and After: The Work of Transformation
The distance a room can travel, from a framed opening to a finished interior.
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Inside White River
A Fireside Chat with Joan Johnson
Our founder and senior designer on listening, proportion, and fifty years of turning dreams into wood.
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Inside White River
The Machines Behind the Millwork
The Weinig molder, the oversized CNC, and the know-how that turns lumber into detail.
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Inside White River
Meet the Team: Zach Manicom
Receiving, fulfillment, and shipping all run through one person, and your order shows up because of him.
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Inside White River
From a Root Cellar to a Landmark
Two people, a truck full of lumber, no running water, and the company that grew out of it.
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Inside White River
One Profile, from Lumber to Living Room
Follow a single moulding through the shop, from rough board to finished wall.
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Inside White River
Meet the Team: Stacy Schlemmer
Our National Sales Manager on relationships, the road, and growth that comes from taking care of people.
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Product Profile
The Double Bead Tambour
The tambour profile everyone is asking for, and how to choose the right width for the room.
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Product Profile
MDF Radius Corners
Smooth, consistent curved corners without custom millwork on every job, made only by White River in the USA.
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Product Profile
Plaster Ceiling Medallions
The oldest way to give a ceiling a center, cast in real plaster with real depth.
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Product Profile
Mon Reale Dentil Moulding
A motif thousands of years old, delivered as a crisp overlay on solid poplar.
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