About Furnliv: Solid Wood Makers in Jodhpur
Who we are
Furnliv is a working furniture workshop in Tanavada Industrial Area, Jodhpur — the city that supplies most of India's solid wood furniture. Most brands here design in one city and place orders with workshops in another. We skipped a step and sell what we make.
We buy our timber as planks from Jodhpur's market, season it to 8–12% moisture before a board is cut, and joint our frames rather than screwing them. That means we can tell you exactly which wood is in your dining table and how the joints hold — and it means you aren't paying the three markups between a workshop floor and a showroom.
Everything is solid hardwood: Sheesham, Acacia and Mango. No veneer, no particle board. Made to order in about four weeks, shipped free anywhere in India. If you're in Jodhpur, the workshop is open — come and watch your furniture being made.
We don't design furniture and buy it in. We make it.
Furnliv is a working solid wood workshop in Jodhpur — the city that supplies most of India's furniture. We cut it, joint it, finish it, and ship it straight to your home. Nobody stands in between.
Why direct costs less
The same table. The same hands. Four fewer people to pay.
Most furniture brands in India are not manufacturers. They design and sell, and they place orders with workshops in clusters like Jodhpur. Every stop between that workshop and your dining room adds a margin — each one earned by someone doing real work. They just accumulate.
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Nothing was compromised to get there. Fewer people needed paying along the way.
See our pricesThe three woods we work in
We'd rather talk you into the cheaper wood than take a return.
Almost every solid wood listing in India is one of these three, and almost none of them explain the difference — because the difference sometimes argues against the sale. Here's the honest version.
Sheesham — Indian rosewood, Dalbergia sissoo
Dense, hard, and interlocked in the grain, which is why it resists both denting and warping. It holds a joint better than anything else we cut — and for a dining table or a bed that has to stay rigid under load for twenty years, that matters more than any other property. The colour deepens with age rather than fading.
The trade-off: the most expensive of the three, usually by a wide margin. It's heavy — a solid Sheesham six-seater is genuinely hard to move. And matching the pronounced grain across a wide top takes board selection, which is part of the cost.
Shop Sheesham dining tables- Hardness
- Cost
- Grain
- Rich, dark, interlocked
- Colour
- Golden → deep chocolate
- Weight
- Heavy
- Buy it for
- Dining tables, beds, wardrobes
Acacia — the one that varies
Close behind Sheesham on hardness, and it does something visually that neither of the others do. A single Acacia top can run from pale honey to reddish brown across its width, with strong figure and occasional dark mineral streaks. Some people see that and want it immediately. Others see it and think the boards don't match. Both reactions are correct.
The trade-off: the piece you receive will not look exactly like the photograph, because no two Acacia boards do. It's the single most common reason an Acacia piece gets returned. If you like uniformity, this is not your wood.
Shop Acacia statement pieces- Hardness
- Cost
- Grain
- Dramatic, highly variable
- Colour
- Honey → red-brown
- Weight
- Heavy
- Buy it for
- Coffee tables, sideboards, consoles
Mango — the honest budget hardwood
It gets unfairly dismissed. It comes from trees that have stopped fruiting, so it's a genuine by-product rather than timber grown for felling, and it is a real hardwood — not a softwood, not engineered board. Fine even grain, pale gold, and it takes stain beautifully; a walnut-finished Mango sideboard is hard to tell from something far more expensive.
The trade-off: softer than Sheesham, so it dents. Put a Mango dining table in a house with three children and it will show its history within a couple of years. It also wants a stable indoor spot — it's more sensitive to prolonged damp.
The comparison that actually matters: most people aren't choosing Sheesham vs Mango. They're choosing solid wood vs particle board with a wood-look laminate at a similar price. Mango outlives that by fifteen years, can be sanded and refinished, and holds a screw when a handle works loose. If budget is the constraint, drop to Mango before you drop to MDF.
Shop Mango storage & TV units- Hardness
- Cost
- Grain
- Fine, even
- Colour
- Pale gold, stains well
- Weight
- Moderate
- Buy it for
- Bedsides, chests, TV units, bookcases
How a piece gets made
Five steps. The second one is where most furniture goes wrong.
Sheesham, Acacia and Mango, bought as planks from Jodhpur's timber market — a few kilometres from the workshop. We reject anything with unstable grain or excessive sapwood before it enters the yard, because a bad board costs far more to discover after it's a tabletop.
Before you order
Buying from a workshop is slower. Here's the whole trade.
We make to order, so delivery is typically four weeks rather than four days. There's no same-week gratification, and you can't walk into a showroom in your city and sit on the exact chair. For a bedside table, that might not be worth it. For a dining table you intend to keep for twenty years, four weeks is not a long time.
Call us first — +91 91 66 76 0900- You get answers, not relayed claims We can tell you which timber lot your table came from and how long it seasoned, because we bought it and dried it. A brand reselling finished stock is passing along what its supplier said.
- Changes are a conversation, not a special order The piece is made after you order it, so a different length, height or finish is a phone call. Most changes cost nothing. Length changes are priced on request.
- If a joint fails in year three, it fails on our name Same floor, same people. There's nobody for us to point at.
- Sheesham moves about 2mm across its width between monsoon and winter That's the wood breathing, not a fault — and we'd rather tell you now than after it arrives.
Come and see
The workshop is open. There is sawdust, and it is loud.
If you're in Jodhpur, walk the floor and watch your furniture being made. If you're not, start with a room — everything ships free, anywhere in India, in about four weeks.
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