Long Creek Cabinetry

Amish-built · Osceola, Iowa

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Custom cabinets & furniture · Osceola, Iowa

Beautiful furniture, built by quality Amish hands

Long Creek Cabinetry builds beautiful, custom-built furniture and cabinetry — made by hand, in solid wood, by quality Amish hands. This is not just cabinetry. It is furniture made for your home, your size, and your wood.

Photograph inside the woodworking shop showing a table saw in the middle of the room, lumber stacked on wooden racks, shelves of tools and supplies, and a shaped wooden piece at the edge of the room
Inside the shop: their work area The real shop — tools, lumber, and work in progress. No finished piece is shown here; this is their work area, where the work is done.

Not just cabinetry.

Long Creek Cabinetry is Amish-built, through and through. The work is done by quality Amish hands — careful hands, steady hands, hands that know wood. What comes out of the shop is beautiful custom-built furniture: pieces made one at a time, for the home they are going to live in.

It is not one-size-fits-all. You choose the wood. You choose the size. The piece is built to fit your room and your life.

  • Any type of wood you want Choose the wood you love, and your piece is built in that wood.
  • Any size — big or small A small side table or a long family table. Big or small, it is built to your size.

Custom Kitchen Cabinetry — Crafted with Care

From beautiful cabinetry and thoughtful storage to custom-built appliance surrounds, every detail reflects a dedication to quality woodworking.

Design visualizations featuring Long Creek cabinetry. Appliances, countertops, and sink were added digitally.

Kitchen design visualization with a microwave, oven, warm wood cabinetry, countertops, and farmhouse sink.
Custom Kitchen CabinetryKitchen design visualization with a microwave, oven, warm wood cabinetry, countertops, and farmhouse sink.
Kitchen design visualization featuring a built-in refrigerator surround and matching cabinetry.
Refrigerator & Custom StorageKitchen design visualization featuring a built-in refrigerator surround and matching cabinetry.

A family woodworking tradition · Chris Keim

Where It All Began

My story began in Montana in 2002, where I grew up surrounded by the sights, sounds, and smells of my dad's little furniture shop. While other kids were out playing, I could often be found wandering between stacks of lumber, watching sawdust fly, and learning that a simple piece of wood could become something beautiful with a little patience and a lot of hard work.

My dad has been in the woodworking business for as long as I can remember, and somewhere along the way, his passion became mine. What started as a childhood spent underfoot in the workshop grew into a lifelong love of woodworking.

Today, I've taken on much of the family business, building a workshop of my own with tools I've acquired over the years. But these aren't the modern electric machines you might expect. Our workshop still operates using traditional, non-electric woodworking equipment, carrying forward the methods and craftsmanship of generations past.

Long Creek Cabinetry remains family-owned and operated, rooted in the same values I grew up with.

Good craftsmanship, honest work, and a little sawdust along the way.

Inside the shop: their work area

These are photographs of their work area — the real shop, taken inside it. No people, and no finished furniture — just the tools, the wood, and work in progress, in the shop where every piece is built by hand.

The Amish craftsmen at Long Creek Cabinetry live without electricity or telephones in their homes. They utilize a shared community telephone to communicate with customers and conduct business, while continuing to live without many of today's modern conveniences — which makes the beautiful craftsmanship they create by hand, right here in their work area, even more incredible.

  • Photograph inside the shop showing a large green sanding machine and a planer, with dust-collection hoses and belts overhead
    The sander Inside the shop — the large sander, and the planer beside it.
  • Photograph inside the shop showing a long woodworking machine by a window, with a wide light-colored wood slab in the foreground
    Wood, ready to work Inside the shop — a long machine by the window, with a wide wood slab in front.
  • Photograph inside the shop showing a table saw with a roller table in the foreground, a jointer behind it, and shelves of tools and supplies along the wall
    The table saw Inside the shop — the table saw, the jointer, shelves, and tools.
  • Photograph inside the shop showing workbenches under a window, clamps and tools along the wall, and a wide wood slab with a natural edge in the foreground
    Workbenches and wood Inside the shop — workbenches by the window, with a wood slab in front.
  • Photograph inside the shop showing the large green sanding machine and the planer beside it, with overhead belts and dust-collection hoses
    Inside the shop The green sander and planer, in their work area inside the shop.

Doors and drawers, made to fit the piece

Cabinet doors and drawers are built in the same wood, to the same care, as the cabinet or furniture they belong to — so the whole piece looks and feels like it was made together, because it was.

New doors and drawers for a new build, or doors and drawers made to fit what you already have. Tell the shop what you have in mind, and it will build what fits.

Photograph inside the shop showing a shaped wooden board in progress on the sander, with another shaped wooden board leaning against the wall nearby
A shaped board in progress, in their work area inside the shop.

What we build

The cut list below is the work of the shop. Custom furniture leads the list — because that is the heart of it — followed by cabinets, doors, drawers, and the rest.

Photograph of a large wooden secretary cabinet built by Chris Keim, with upper double doors, small drawers, a slanted writing-desk front, and lower drawers
One secretary cabinet, built by Chris Keim The closed view of one custom-built secretary cabinet by Chris Keim — upper double doors, small drawers, a slanted writing-desk front, and lower drawers, in solid wood.

Custom-built furniture · Built by Chris Keim

Built by Chris Keim, made for a home

This secretary cabinet is custom-built furniture by Chris Keim — upper double doors, small drawers, a slanted writing-desk front, and lower drawers below, all in solid wood, built by quality Amish hands.

The photographs show one cabinet, closed and open: the closed view, plus four open views of the same cabinet — the full front view with its doors open and its desk down, an angled open view, a close look inside the desk, and a side open view.

It is the kind of piece the shop builds one at a time: any type of wood you want, any size — big or small — made to fit the home it is going to live in.

Photograph of the same wooden secretary cabinet built by Chris Keim, with its upper double doors open, the writing desk down, shelves above, and small drawers and pigeonholes inside
The same cabinet, open — full front view Doors open and the desk down, showing the shelves above and the small drawers and pigeonholes inside.
Photograph of the same wooden secretary cabinet built by Chris Keim, seen at an angle with its upper double doors open, the writing desk down, shelves above, and small drawers and pigeonholes inside
The same cabinet, open — at an angle Seen at an angle, with the doors open and the desk down, showing the shelves and the inside drawers.
Close-up photograph of the inside of the secretary cabinet desk built by Chris Keim, showing pigeonholes and small drawers
A close look inside the desk The pigeonholes and small drawers inside the desk, in the same secretary cabinet.
Photograph of the same wooden secretary cabinet built by Chris Keim, seen from the side with its upper doors open, the writing desk down, and the lower drawers below
The same cabinet, open — from the side Seen from the side, with the doors open, the desk down, and the side of the cabinet in view.
Photograph of one convertible wooden item built by Chris Keim, set up as a highchair, with a raised seat, a back, and a front rail
Highchair — the same one piece Set this way, it is a highchair, with a raised seat, a back, and a front rail. This is the first of the three pictures of the same one piece.

Custom-built furniture · Built by Chris Keim

One piece that switches around — three ways

This is one piece, not three different pieces. Set it one way and it is a highchair. Turn it around and it becomes a little rocking horse. Turn it again and it becomes a seated desk to work from.

The three photographs with this piece show the same one item, three ways, so you can tell what you are actually looking at in each picture. It is built in solid wood, by quality Amish hands.

Write to the shop about the piece you have in mind — any type of wood you want, any size, big or small.

One piece · Three ways

How this one piece switches around

These are not three pieces of furniture. They are the same one piece, shown three ways. Look for the same wood and the same shape, set a different way in each picture:

  1. Highchair Set it this way, and it is a highchair. This is the first picture, above.
  2. Little rocking horse Turn it around, and the same piece becomes a little rocking horse, with its curved rockers underneath. This is the second picture, below.
  3. Seated desk Turn it again, and the same piece becomes a seated desk to work from. This is the third picture, below.
Photograph of the same convertible wooden item built by Chris Keim, turned over as a little rocking horse, with curved rockers underneath
Little rocking horse — the same one piece Turned around, the same piece becomes a little rocking horse, with its curved rockers underneath. This is the second of the three pictures of the same one piece.
Photograph of the same convertible wooden item built by Chris Keim, set up as a seated desk to work from
Seated desk — the same one piece Turned again, the same piece becomes a seated desk to work from. This is the third of the three pictures of the same one piece.
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    Custom furniture

    Beautiful custom-built furniture — tables, chairs, sideboards, and more — in any type of wood you want, and any size, big or small.

    Built by quality Amish hands
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    Custom cabinets

    Cabinets built to your space and your needs, in the wood you choose.

    Made to fit your room
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    Cabinet doors and drawers

    Doors and drawers built to fit — for a new build, or made to match what you already have.

    Same wood, same care
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    Built-ins and shelving

    Built-in storage and shelving, fitted to the wall and the room it belongs in.

    Fitted to your home
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    Trim and finish work

    Trim and finishing touches that complete a room in solid wood.

    The finishing touches
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    Wooden parts, frames, mounts, and bases

    Wooden parts built to attach to something else — frames, mounts, and bases, made to measure.

    Made to measure