Doors
Solid-core entry and interior doors, hand-finished for a grain that matches room to room.
Est. in a one-room workshop
Premium custom furniture, doors, windows, wardrobes, and interior woodwork designed with precision and craftsmanship.
20+Years of joinery
Our Story
Every plank that enters our workshop is chosen before it's cut — for grain, for weight, for the way it will age. At Sivabalan Wood Works, that habit of looking twice has shaped four decades of doors, wardrobes, and interiors built to outlast the trends they were designed around.
We work in solid timber and select veneers, joined by hand wherever hand-joinery holds better than a machine ever could. Every commission starts with a conversation about how a room is actually used, not just how it should look in a photograph — and ends with furniture that fits the space, the client, and the years ahead.
What We Build
Twelve disciplines, one workshop — every piece cut, joined, and finished under the same roof.
Solid-core entry and interior doors, hand-finished for a grain that matches room to room.
Weather-ready timber window frames built to hold their seal through monsoon and summer alike.
Louvered and paneled shutters that control light without closing off the view.
Entryway and garden benches joined to carry weight for decades, not seasons.
Solid wood bed frames sized to your mattress and your room, not a factory template.
Vanity units with considered storage and mirror placement, built around how you get ready.
Sliding, hinged, or walk-in wardrobes fitted to the exact dimensions of your room.
Media consoles with cable management built in from the first sketch, not added after.
Moisture-resistant cabinetry engineered for daily use, not just the showroom photo.
Desks, shelving, and storage that hold up to a full working day, every day.
One-off pieces built from your sketch, your reference photo, or a conversation on-site.
Full-room woodwork — panelling, ceilings, partitions — planned as one cohesive space.
From the Workshop
A small selection from recent commissions — each piece built to order, none of it off a shelf.
Solid timber doors with hand-carved detailing, built to a room's exact frame.
Clean-lined storage with interiors planned around what you actually own.
Cot frames finished to a furniture-grade polish, sized to the mattress you own.
Vanity units that treat mirror height and drawer depth as design decisions.
Entryway and veranda seating joined for decades of daily use.
Timber-framed windows sealed and finished for long seasons of sun and rain.
Storage cabinetry fitted to the centimetre, not the nearest standard size.
Media units with cable routing and ventilation solved before the wood is cut.
Why Sivabalan
We select and season timber ourselves — no shortcuts on the material that outlasts everything else.
Every piece starts as a conversation about your space, not a catalogue number.
Joinery passed down and refined across generations in the workshop.
Sanded, sealed, and polished in stages — the difference shows in five years, not five days.
Transparent quotes with no charges added after the work has started.
A schedule you're told upfront, and one we hold ourselves to.
How We Work
We visit your space, or you visit ours, to talk through what you need and what the room allows.
Measurements, sketches, and material options, refined until the plan matches the brief.
You see and approve the actual timber before a single cut is made.
Joinery, shaping, and assembly, done by hand where hand-joinery serves the piece better.
Every joint, hinge, and surface inspected before it leaves the workshop.
Fitted on-site by the team that built it, finished and cleaned before we leave.
Get in Touch
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