Modern Designer Furniture

Our workshop, Modern Designer Furniture, is over on Station Road in Halisahar. We are very close to the down platform at the Jetia stop. You can hear the announcements for the trains all day long. Whenever a train pulls in, you see a crowd of people walking past our front door. The air inside always smells like fresh wood and saw dust. We have piles of timber stacked up in the back and half-finished chairs and tables scattered around the floor. It is a bit messy, but that’s how a furniture place usually looks when people are actually working. We use a lot of hand tools and some older machines that make a lot of noise. The floors are covered in shavings and we sweep them out every evening. We don't have a fancy display window. People just walk in and see what we are currently building. Sometimes a customer will sit on a stool that doesn't have a back yet just to see if it’s comfortable. We drink tea from the stall across the street near the station. North 24 Parganas gets very humid, so the wood needs time to settle. We take our time with the joints and the sanding. It’s hard work on the back and the hands, but it’s what we do. The location near the platform means we are never lonely.