Fine Furniture/Joinery Trades Foundation

If you love woodworking and want a career that requires creativity and an eye for detail, the Fine Furniture/Joinery program is for you.

The Fine Furniture/Joinery program is a full-time, 10-month program offered at the Interurban campus, starting in September each year. Classroom theory is combined with intensive hands-on experience, so you can develop relevant skills and knowledge for employment. At the end of the program, each student will design and build a final project that will be showcased in a public gallery.

Graduates of this program will have knowledge and skills necessary for initial entry into the Cabinet making and Millwork trades, as well as the Furniture Design, Construction and Finishing/Refinishing industries.  Classroom work and practical shop projects emphasize the skills required for success in a small-scale shop or self-employment situation.

What You’ll Learn

• Use creative problem solving to come to innovative yet practical solutions in the design and building of fine furniture.
• Understand how furniture history and principles and elements of design inform contemporary fine furniture construction.
• Work effectively as part of a team or group in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and achievement of goals.
• Use the materials, tools and equipment required for fine furniture construction and finishing in a safe, effective manner.
• Present self to the external world as a creative, skilled, business-like beginning woodworker.