Wood Doors, Custom Furniture

You Have Probably Heard - The “Rich” Get Richer And The “Poor” Get Poorer

Ever wonder why? Studies show it has very little to do with how much money a family earns. It has more to do with having an investment state of mind. The ability to decern the difference between an expense and a long term investment. Most Americans are focused on how cheap each item can be purchased on sale prices with little attention given to true value. While this works well for expense purchases on commodities such as food, clothing, cars, computers etc. this never works well on long term big ticket purchases such as your home, building products or home furnishings etc. The reason is, your home should be an investment and as it gets older it appreciates in value with the exception of things that have to be replaced because they are worn out or become out of date.

The so called Rich “never purchase” low quality homes, building products or home furnishings that have to be replaced. Maybe as you were growing up your mom and dad or grand parents might have said something to the effect that they would rather save up for one good item that will last and they could be proud to own, rather than purchase many cheap low quality items just to fill the room. For Example: Solid wood hand made furniture, cabinets, counter tops or floor materials made from genuine solid wood, marble, stone, or granite verses man made plywood, veneered particle boards, tile, formica or corian etc.

Solid wood furniture, cabinets, and genuine stone will never need to be replaced and will age with grace and become more valuable over time. “The Rich Get Richer” The man made furniture with fake backs, plywood’s, veneers, tile, faux stone, corian or formica will have to be replaced over and over again. “The Poor Get Poorer”

When you purchase investment quality furnishings, doors, lighting and hardware they will appreciate and keep up with inflation or exceed most other investments. For this reason, becoming wealthy has very little to do with a higher education or having a lot of extra money. It is truly making wise decisions and a state of mind that allows for you to pay once for a good value and continue to grow wealth while enjoying living in your investment. Not to mention this type of investing has many other benefits, such as priceless family heirlooms that have meaning and the ability to pass on your legacy to future generations.

Throughout our American history, no matter the economic conditions investing in your self, your home and your legacy has always paid off. This is the big secret to building true wealth. Simply declare your self worthy of the best, invest in it and enjoy.

A Ferrari And A Yugo Are Both Cars, And A Diamond Or A Cubic Zirconia Set In Fine Gold Look Almost The Same; The Fake Is An Expense - The Genuine Is An Investment

We are trying to get your attention. In the market place today the copying of American and European handmade custom investment quality furniture, doors, lighting, cabinets and hardware designs is running ramped.

The use of high tech machines and cheap foreign labor make it possible to make paste board and veneers look like quality products. There is no investment value in these items and they do not compare to handmade investment quality furnishings built to stand the test of time. In fact, many of the famous name brands we all grew up believing were high quality furnishings have now sold out in the name of profit to cheap foreign production manufacturing, mostly due to current government trade policy and corporate greed.

Scottsdale Art Factory Will Never Sell Out Its Family Heritage To Cheap Foreign Mass Production Manufacturers For Any Reason.

Custom Handmade For Less Money Than Production Copies

It has been our experience that custom built investment quality furnishing, doors, gates, lighting and hardware do not particularly cost more than the mass production copies, this is because many of the dealers work on markups that often reach over 400%. Also keep in mind, most mass production items never become more valuable over time, and usually end up as garage sale items. This results is the true loss of your investment and the subsequent need to re-spend, setting up a cycle of financial loss that never ends.

Direct Factory- No Middle Men- No Over Seas Shipping- Always A Better Value

How Can Handmade In The USA To Investment Quality Be Less than name brand production furnishings, doors, lighting, etc? the answer is simple, We Are The Factory! When you purchase from us directly there is no middle man, no shipping from over seas, no box’s, no freight, no distributors, and no unnecessary markups. This means you get the best value on each and every purchase. This also means there is only one price from the factory and when you are purchasing an investment quality furnishing, door, lighting etc. you are investing in an item that will become more valuable over time. These benefits combined with your pride of ownership of a truly custom one of a kind piece especially designed for you, creates a wining combination for any consumer.

We Guarantee Our Price To Be Less

Bring Us Any Major Big Name Brand Designer Furnishings, Manufacturers or Retailers Price on Furniture, Doors, Cabinets, Gates, Lighting, Or Hardware in writing and we will beat the price! This quote can be from any reputable manufacturer or retailer, such as Ralph Lauren, American Drew, Bernhardt, Baker, Century, Drexel Heritage, Hancock, Lane, Thomasville, Vanguard, Robb and Stuckys, Ladlows, Broyhill, Ethan Allen, Stickily, just to mention a few, or any other comparable custom handmade manufacturer worldwide. We Will Beat their Price, Guaranteed! In addition we will deliver our much higher investment quality product, custom made to our standards, designed for you just the way your want it.

Note: Since we produce products in our industry that are comparable to a Ferrari this offer does not include off brands made in China, and other cheap labor force foreign land manufacturers. this includes wholesalers, retailers or discounters of substandard products which have no regard for value or human health including imported furnishings, doors, cabinets, gates, lighting or hardware that are made from compositions, core fillers, faux casted copies, faux fabrics, low quality machine split and re-polished leathers, veneered wood products or stone over particle boards made with formaldehyde resin or lead paint finishes etc.

Memory is such an interesting tool. We can, given the right stimulus, recall with clarity a moment in time, long past. There are times, when moving through a crowd when I catch a scent and will be catapulted back in time to my Grandmother’s house on Clear Lake on a Saturday morning. Sometimes it’s just a simple smell, like fresh berries,cut grass or fried fish that brings back vivid memories of my childhood.

At Grandma’s house we would begin our day by looking out at the lake and consider the possibilities. My Mother and Uncles would all be getting ready to water ski, fish or pick black berries. Sometimes all I have to do is look at Grandma’s old hand carved cedar chest where she kept, what she called, the most important things.

One of my most vivid memories was when Grandma decided she needed a new front door. The entrance to her home was always unremarkable so we all chimed in and encouraged her to get something unique. Then the question, “what would make it special?” We began on-line and stumbled upon a wonderful website artfactory.com. We then chose a style that reflected the ambiance of the lake home and its surroundings. With all the possibilities they offered we then all agreed that it should reflect our lifestyle and the things we all enjoyed doing while we were together. We got out a lot of our old photos of fishing, the woods and all the moments we loved when Grandpa and Grandma were together.

We were excited to work with Scottsdale Art Factory because of their reputation and their ability to use our family photographs in the hand carvings on the door. Grandma was so pleased with her new custom door! The rest is history (see the photo included of our door of memories). It has been several years and Grandma is no longer with us but every time we get together at the lake house warm memories overwhelm me.

It has been said that all we ever really have in life is our memories. If that is the case then I suggest we make memories that last. I once heard that it’s better to be looked over than overlooked and in the context of making lasting memories I believe this to be true. Why go through life in beige if chartreuse will linger in the memory? Why opt for basic black if tangerine will seal the moment? Why be boring if bold will cause you to stand out and be noticed?

Moroccan Door: Morocco wooden doors, Moorish double doors, wood Morocco gateways and Moorish carved doors! Moroccans say a beautiful house is known by its beautiful door. We offer a wide range of Moroccan style doors, a unique art of Moroccan living, which makes it possible to recreate the warmth of hospitality and the cultural elegance of Mediterranean design right for your own home or office!


Scottsdale Art Factory: Offers Anglo Indian style doors with large bases in unique original design. Indian carving with European influence. Antique style door from the once French enclave in India, Pandacheri. Perfect for wine cellar or to give character to any house. Fine flower carvings on frame sides and over and under lintel. South India. Gujarat temple style doors, carved in solid cedar, inset with iron or copper plaques are avaliable. We can make you a pair of doors with massive carved frame ideal for your wine cellar. Spectacularly deep carved framed door. You may order huge hand forged iron hinges. Install these on your guest house and “Shahrazad” will come.


Berbers: The early Berbers were unmoved by the colonizing Phoenicians, and even the Romans did little to upset the Berber way of life after the sack of Carthage in 146 BC. All the same, the Romans ushered in a long period of peace during which many cities were founded, and the Berbers of the coastal plains became city dwellers. Christianity turned up in the 3rd century AD, and again the Berbers asserted their traditional dislike of centralized authority by following Donatus (a Christian sect leader who claimed that the Donatists alone constituted the true church).

Morocco officially Kingdom of Morocco, Arabic Al-Maghrib, or Al-Mamlakah al-MaghribYyah country of northwestern North Africa that lies directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain. It borders Algeria to the east and southeast, Western Sahara to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. It is the only African country with coastal exposure to both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. With the Western Sahara’s 97,344 square miles (252,120 square km), Morocco occupies a total area of 274,461 square miles (710,850 square km). Casablanca is the largest city, primary seaport, and commercial and industrial hub. Rabat is the capital and the country’s second largest city.


Because of its lack of natural harbors, its rugged mountainous interior, and its distance throughout its history from imperial centers in the east, Morocco remained relatively free from foreign invasion until the early 20th century. This enabled it to preserve a proud traditional character, which is a rich blend of Berber, Arab-Islamic, Iberian, and African cultural influences. Those traits were joined by an infusion of European cultural elements during the colonial period when Morocco was a protectorate of both France and Spain.


Brief History: Unlike other North African nations, Morocco has been largely occupied by one group of people for as long as recorded history can recall. The Berbers, or Imazighen (men of the land), settled in the area thousands of years ago and at one time controlled all of the land between Morocco and Egypt. Divided into clans and tribes, they have always jealously guarded their independence. It’s this fierce spirit that has helped preserve one of Africa’s most fascinating cultures.

This church entrance for Stillingfleet Church in Yorkshire dates from 1185. The solid wood door is famous for its Viking ironwork and representations of a viking ship and other signs meant to act as charms. The exterior door is 4″ thick solid cedar and is “still” being used today.

Scottsdale Art Factory builds exterior doors today in the very same way they did in the 12th. century. We harvest from the North wood’s tall stands of Northern cedar. We air dry all of our timber naturally on the desert floor for a year or more prior to the final milling of your exterior door or interior door project. Once you have placed your order, we mill again to final dimensions required by your custom interior door or exterior door order. After this final milling we let it cure dry again. This is to insure that when we join and press these solid wood planks together they never warp, bow or split after the door has been joined together to make a solid wood door slab or blade.

Most materials used today are fast kiln dried. This is performed by force drying the material to a percentage of humidity level then joining. The rest of the drying time occurs after the product is delivered to your home. Usually warping and bowing and always shrinking all in the name of production speed and profit.

We at Scottsdale Art Factory (also known as scottsdaledoorfactory.com) do not rush anything we produce in the name of profit. We have the attitude that our reputation is on the line with each product produced so we simply build the old fashioned way, much like this historic exterior wood door that was built in the 12th century. By using the finest materials, the best master craftsman, along with methods and technology not much different from when the Vikings built this entry door has stood in working order for some 800 or so years. Proving as we always say, “if you build it right with pride of craftsmanship it will never need a warranty and will stand the test of time.”

We at Scottsdale Art Factory “guarantee all of our products forever” - no questions asked. All backed by our over nine decades of fine craftsmanship. We also have on staff some of the worlds best blacksmiths. Using these same techniques as the Vikings did on this door hardware. We still hand make fine hardware in any style. All finishes are patinas not faux or paint. See hundreds of interior and exterior door examples and our blacksmiths at work using hammer, anvil and forge all built to these specifications.