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2026 Best Woodwork Restoration

Staack Moore Woodworking

This region’s old housing stock has gorgeous woodwork loaded with character — and a century’s worth of dents, scratches, paint layers, and questionable repairs. Enter Staack Moore. The Port Richmond shop gets raves for high-end custom projects; historic restorations; and bespoke furniture commissioned for luxury homes, grand churches, and even the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Whether re-creating a lost architectural detail, building a dream kitchen, or saving battered mahogany pocket doors, the craftsmanship is the same: meticulous. Read More »

2810-28 East Victoria Street, Philadelphia, PA | 215-425-4345 | Website

2023 Best Place to Learn How to Be Your Own Carpenter

Philadelphia Furniture Workshop

Looking for a new hobby that makes you feel like you’ve actually accomplished something? Try a beginner class at this Germantown nonprofit. The workshop starts small — like, pencil-case small — but the skills acquired are applicable across the woodworking spectrum. From there, take a learning-series course to master the craft’s tools and techniques; you’ll be making your own furniture in no time. (Okay, it will probably take a long time.) Read More »

5212 Pulaski Avenue, Philadelphia, PA Website

2021 Best Custom Woodworking

Tiny WPA

Children and power tools: a classic­ combination. Tiny WPA teaches kids and teens the ins and outs of woodworking, then supervises the construction of desks, benches, seesaws, and anything else you can make out of chopped-down trees. Got a custom­ project you need done? The adults of Tiny WPA will work on that, too. Read More »

3021 West Stiles Street, Philadelphia, PA Website