The DeMejico furniture catalog spans five rooms and three decades of handcraft. Dining tables built from solid mesquite. Bedroom sets carved from old-growth reclaimed wood. Living room seating with genuine leather and hand-forged iron. Every piece in the collection comes from the same place: a 30,000 square foot workshop in Valencia, CA where artisans have been working wood and iron by hand since 1993.
This guide walks through the full collection, room by room. What each category includes, how the pieces are made, and what to look for when you’re choosing something meant to last.
Dining Room Furniture
The dining room is where most people start. A solid wood dining table is the center of a Spanish Colonial home, and the catalog reflects that. DeMejico builds dining tables from several different materials depending on the style: solid mesquite for Colonial and rustic pieces, old-growth reclaimed wood for the most characterful finishes, and rosa morada for the Coastal line.
Mesquite is the workhorse. It is dense, heavy, and develops deep color variation as it ages. A mesquite table has natural movement in it, subtle warping and grain shifts that come from decades of growth, and those characteristics do not disappear when the wood is milled. They stay in the finished piece. That is the point.
Old-growth reclaimed wood is different. This is wood recovered from fallen structures, beams, and old construction, material that has already been aging for fifty to a hundred years before it ever comes into the shop. The knots are pronounced. The cracks are real. Some pieces show split lines that run the full length of the top. These are not defects. They are the evidence of age, and they are what separates a reclaimed piece from anything you’ll find in a production catalog.
Chairs follow the same philosophy. The dining chair collection includes leather-wrapped seating with iron nail-head trim, ladder-back hacienda styles in mesquite, and upholstered options for longer table use. Every chair in the catalog is built with mortise and tenon joints, not staples or corner brackets.
Living Room Furniture
The living room catalog covers benches, sofas, coffee tables, end tables, consoles, armoires, and entertainment centers. Most of the seating is built more like bench furniture than upholstered sofas: solid wood frames with leather cushions, iron hardware, and exposed joinery. These pieces are heavier than they look and are built to be used, not preserved.
Armoires are one of the strongest categories in the living room collection. The Armario Girasol and Armario Antigua are two of the most-seen pieces. Both are built from solid wood, one from mesquite and one from old wood, with double-door fronts and carved panel details. They function as wardrobes, TV storage, or general storage, and they work in both bedrooms and living rooms depending on what the space needs.
Coffee tables and end tables in this collection tend toward the rustic. Thick-topped mesquite, iron stretcher bases, hand-pounded clavos. Some pieces pair travertine stone tops with wrought iron bases, a combination that reads as Colonial without being heavy. The contrast between natural stone and hand-forged metal is one that shows up throughout Spanish design, and it translates well in a Southern California home.
Bedroom Furniture
The bedroom catalog is built around the bed frame, and the headboard is where most of the craft is concentrated. DeMejico’s Colonial-style headboards are carved from solid mesquite with raised panel detailing and arch tops. The carving is done by hand, using the same techniques that Spanish Colonial furniture makers used in the 16th century. There is no machine router work on the decorative elements. Each carved section is done individually.
Dressers, nightstands, and armoires fill out the bedroom collection. The San Felipe dresser is one of the more detailed pieces, with carved panel fronts and hand-forged iron pull hardware. The Portugues nightstand, built from solid mesquite, appears in both a single-drawer and a double-door cabinet version, and both have been in the catalog for years. These are not trend-driven designs. They are based on forms that have worked for four centuries.
What separates the DeMejico bedroom pieces from production bedroom sets is the material. Mass-produced bedroom furniture uses veneers over particleboard for drawer fronts and hidden panels. The finished surfaces look fine when new, but they do not hold up. DeMejico uses solid wood throughout, including the hidden panels, the drawer boxes, and the structural frame. You only discover this when you move the piece, because it weighs considerably more than you expect.
The Craft Behind Every Room
The thing that holds the catalog together is not style. It is construction method. Every piece, regardless of category, is built with mortise and tenon joints. The tenon is a projection cut on the end of one piece of wood. The mortise is the slot cut into the adjacent piece. The two fit together and are glued and pegged. This joint has been used in furniture construction for thousands of years because it creates a mechanical connection, not just an adhesive one. It resists racking, it holds under load, and it can be repaired if it ever fails.
The iron hardware throughout the collection is hand-forged. Clavos, hinges, straps, pulls, and decorative elements are all made in the shop, not ordered from a hardware supplier. Hand-pounded iron has a texture and surface variation that cast iron does not. Under the right light, you can see the hammer marks. That is not a flaw. That is evidence of the process.
Thirty-three years is a long time to build furniture the same way. Most manufacturers change with the market. DeMejico has not changed the construction method because there is no better way to build a piece of furniture that will last generations. The catalog has grown. The craft has not changed.
What the Furniture Catalog Covers
The full catalog includes:
- Dining room: Tables in mesquite, old wood, and rosa morada. Chairs in leather, fabric, and carved wood. Buffets, servers, and bar carts.
- Living room: Coffee tables, end tables, consoles, benches, sofas, armoires, entertainment centers, and bar furniture.
- Bedroom: Bed frames in full, queen, and king. Headboards in Colonial and rustic styles. Dressers, nightstands, armoires, and vanities.
- Office: Desks, bookcases, and cabinets built to the same standard as the residential furniture.
- Bar: Full bar units, bar stools, and serving pieces for home entertainment spaces.
The showroom in Valencia carries a selection of in-stock pieces across all categories. Custom orders are also available. Most pieces in the catalog can be built to different dimensions, different stain finishes, and with different hardware options. The wood species determines the character of the piece, and some species are only available for certain designs, so it is worth asking when you visit.
Most of what sells from the catalog goes to homeowners and interior designers working on Spanish Colonial, hacienda, or Old World style homes in Southern California. The scale of a 30,000 square foot showroom means you can see most of the collection in person before you buy, which matters when you are choosing furniture that will be in your home for decades.
