Valencia, CA is where DeMejico has been building furniture for over 33 years. Not assembling. Not finishing. Building, from raw solid wood, by hand, the same way it was done in 16th century Mexico.
Our 30,000 square foot showroom sits here in Valencia because this is where we work. The shop floor and the showroom are connected. When you walk in, you are near the place where the pieces are made.
The showroom is not a retail floor stocked with imported pieces. It is a working operation. The craftsmen who build the furniture are here. The wood selection happens here. When a piece is finished, it moves from the workshop to the floor, sometimes within the same building.
What “Handcrafted” Actually Means
A lot of furniture companies use the word handcrafted. Most mean something like hand-assembled, or hand-finished, or hand-something at the last step.
At DeMejico, it means the joinery is done by hand. Mortise and tenon construction, not staples or bracket hardware. The iron clavos hammered in one at a time. The leather tooled by a person at a workbench. Each piece of mesquite or alder or reclaimed pine hand-selected for its grain, its character, its weight.
You can feel the difference when you sit in one of these chairs. The wood doesn’t flex in ways furniture shouldn’t flex.
Spanish Colonial and Mexican Rustic Styles
Both traditions are represented in the showroom. Spanish Colonial furniture is more refined. Think carved ornamental details, dark finishes, iron hardware with intentional form. It suits formal dining rooms and entryways where you want the furniture to make a statement without announcing itself.
Mexican rustic furniture works differently. The irregularities are the point. Knots, cracks, grain variation, natural edge lines. Reclaimed wood carries a century of its own story before it ever becomes a table or a headboard. We source wood that has aged naturally, sometimes salvaged from structures that are no longer standing.
These are not two styles trying to split the difference. They are distinct traditions, and DeMejico has been building both since the early 1990s.
Rustic Furniture: Why It Endures
Rustic furniture has been one of the most searched categories in home design for years. That interest is not a trend — it reflects something people are looking for that mass production cannot deliver: materials with a visible history.
The rustic pieces DeMejico builds are made from reclaimed and old-growth woods that have already aged. Mesquite with deep grain variations. Reclaimed pine showing decades of character. Alder with natural color shifts across the board. None of it is manufactured to look rustic. It is rustic because of what the wood is and where it came from.
Many manufacturers produce rustic-looking furniture using new wood finished to appear aged. The difference is obvious once you have seen the real thing side by side. The weight is different. The grain depth is different. The surface tells a different story.
Handcrafted Doors and Wrought Iron Lighting
Furniture is the core, but it is not the only thing we make. Hand-carved exterior doors, solid wood interior doors, and wrought iron lighting have been part of the offering for decades.
The doors are built the same way as the furniture. Solid wood, mortise and tenon construction, iron hardware forged to match. An exterior door is something you interact with every day, and a well-built one from real wood behaves differently from a fiberglass or engineered wood replacement.
Wrought iron lighting is hand-forged, which means each piece has minor variations that production hardware does not have. Those variations are not imperfections. They are evidence of how it was made.
Work We Have Done for Valencia and the Region
Over 33 years, the projects have ranged from single dining tables for private homes to full commercial installations for restaurants and hotels. Each one is built in the same shop, by the same craftsmen, using the same techniques.
Homeowners in Valencia and the surrounding area have come to the showroom to furnish living rooms, dining rooms, and master bedrooms. Designers have sourced pieces for renovation projects across Southern California. Restaurants and hotels have worked with us on custom furniture programs when the off-the-shelf options did not fit the space or the concept.
Visiting the Showroom
The Valencia showroom is open and worth seeing in person. Photographs of furniture are useful but they do not communicate weight, grain detail, or the hand-feel of a carved surface. The showroom has over 30,000 square feet of pieces you can sit in, pull open, and examine at close range.
DeMejico is located in Valencia, CA, a short drive from most of Los Angeles and all of the Santa Clarita Valley. We work with homeowners, interior designers, and commercial clients. Restaurants and hotels that want furniture that reads as real rather than themed.
If you are looking for Mexican or Spanish furniture made by hand using age-old techniques, this is where to start.
