our commitment to bringing people together goes beyond just a tagline.

In 2015, Josh and Laura Scheutzow were longing to grow their family of four.

While they had been blessed with two biological sons, they were hopeful to have more faces around their table in the future. The difficult struggle of having children eventually led them to pursue adoption, and that journey turned into a redemptive story of family, community, and the unexpected birth of a thriving business.

Armed with nothing more than an Instagram account and a passion for woodworking, they got to work on funding their domestic adoption through online sales and community support. What began as a small Etsy shop selling cutting boards and furniture soon exploded by word of mouth and social media. Working with local agency Choice Network, the Scheutzows were able to bring home their third son in December of 2023. Since that time, their family has continued to grow to a total of four precious boys. 

Josh honed his skills over the next few years, growing his team to include talented furniture makers and finishers, allowing the company to flourish.

The Scheutzows’ continued passion for people and a commitment to the highest quality of craftsmanship has propelled ACS from cutting boards to heirloom furniture, and establishing a reputation of excellence in furniture making across the United States.

Our Timeline

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2015
2015

A Carpenter’s Son Design Co. was born when founders Josh and Laura Scheutzow began using woodworking to raise funds for their domestic adoption. They sold over 500 Ohio-shaped cutting boards, and their son was born that Christmas.

2016
2016

Focusing primarily on tables and bar tops, Josh (and a few dear friends) decided to dip their toes into the world of furniture making. Sharing a 900-square-foot shop with Urbn Timber, ACS completed their first commercial projects in 2016: Surehouse Coffee, Rockmill Tavern, and TENFOLD. Keeping it in the family, Josh’s father, Paul, would drive from Cleveland to help with all of the big projects. 

2017
2017

Leaving his job in the construction industry, Josh decided to take the leap and pursue ACS full-time. Opportunities arose to collaborate with several other small businesses in the Central Ohio area. In 2017, ACS built furniture for local favorites Hot Chicken Takeover, Native Cold Pressed, and The Rail Burger.

2018
2018

While renovating an 1830s farmhouse in Sunbury, Ohio, the Scheutzow family began building a 2,500 square-foot workshop in the backyard. The first proper home of ACS was born. The team continued to grow as the fourth full-time team member was added, and later that year, ACS became COhatch's official furniture partner.

2019
2019

ACS expanded its community involvement, hosting farmers' markets and backyard concerts. In the shop, ACS worked on unique Airbnb projects like The Box Hop, Dunlap Hollow, The Cliffs, and The Dwell Box Treehouse Village, as well as built furniture for dozens of families across Ohio and beyond. In collaboration with TENFOLD, ACS built furniture for the Crew Experience Center, providing fans a sneak peek at the new soccer stadium coming to Columbus.

2020
2020

The team expanded to eleven talented furniture makers and finishers as ACS navigated the pandemic. Doing its best to care for clients and team, every Friday was spent sitting around a fire behind the shop celebrating the week's successes and enjoying the camaraderie of a small team.

2021
2021

The hard decision was made to leave the backyard shop and move the business back to Columbus. To give the team the resources they needed to do their best work, ACS expanded to a 10,000 square-foot shop in Worthington. During that year, ACS had the privilege of crafting over 240 pieces of furniture at Lower.com Stadium, the new home of the Columbus Crew.

2022
2022

ACS is lucky to have many great partners, and in 2022, the team celebrated building and installing furniture for the twentieth COhatch location. In the shop, the furniture makers tested their skills with more vanities, credenzas, and sideboards than ever before in company history. 

2023
2023

A professional furniture designer joined ACS and began challenging the team with unique designs and new techniques. With its reach extending, ACS contributed to large hospitality projects across the nation. Locally, ACS built and installed some of the largest boardroom tables the team has ever produced.

Our Values

  • At ACS care deeply about our clients and their experience. That’s why our primary focus is to communicate well, hit deadlines, collaboratively problem solve, and build furniture that will last. We care just as deeply about our team members and their families, and that’s why we prioritize a culture of positivity and work-life balance.

  • Integrity is the foundation for everything we do. We uphold a reputation of respect for our commitment to honesty, trust, and transparency. We do the right thing, no matter the cost.

  • You trust us to build furniture that lasts a lifetime, a charge we take seriously. Our team uses the best methods and materials, finds solutions, and delivers exceptional results. We hold each other accountable. No one person carries the standard for quality, it is shared by the entire team.

  • We never stop learning and growing as a team and as individuals. We invest in skills and education that makes us the best at our craft. We take responsibility when we make mistakes, and learn from them without placing blame. We never become complacent. Yesterday's best becomes today's standard. Tomorrow, we’ll be even better.

  • Negativity has no place in our organization. Problems will arise, but our greatest strength is in solving them collaboratively as a team and delivering to our clients. We encourage and support one another as we strive to do our best work, and that attitude shines through in a positive client experience.

Meet The Team

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Michael Brereton
Michael Brereton

Michael, or Lodge as he’s known in the motherland, hails from England but we’ve been lucky enough to have him here in the US for the last 15 years or so.

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Em Neighbarger
Em Neighbarger

Em joined our team in 2022 as our logistics coordinator. They’ve been helping out with our daily logistics, installs, procuring our unique materials and learning some furniture building skills in the shop.

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Luke Egan
Luke Egan

It’s hard to get a proper picture of Luke because he never stops moving! Luke has been a woodworker for years, learning through building furniture for his own family and renovating his home.

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Rich Holtz
Rich Holtz

When ACS owner Josh first met Rich, he asked him what he considered himself to be good at. Rich responded nonchalantly, “I can do anything you need!”

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Cain Lackey
Cain Lackey

Cain has been with ACS since 2020 and dove headfirst into every challenge that’s been presented to him. In the fall of 2021, he was promoted to our shop manager, in addition to being our lead craftsman and 3x winner of the Cain Lackey Employee of the Week Award.

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Brad Hosfeld
Brad Hosfeld

Brad has been a valued part of the ACS family for many years as a friend, and officially joined our team in early 2023. With a background in architecture spanning a decade, his passion for furniture design has led him to become our esteemed Lead Designer.

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Josh Scheutzow
Josh Scheutzow

Josh Scheutzow is the founder of A Carpenter’s Son, which began with him slinging cutting boards and t-shirts out of his garage with the goal to raise some extra money for his son’s adoption.

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