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At Smith & Vallee, production for our cabinets, furniture, mill and kiln happens within a triad of industrial buildings and a lumber yard here in the north end of Edison. Owners Wes Smith and Andrew Vallee both live within walking distance of work, and several of our employees were born and raised here, settling back in the Skagit Valley. Sustainability has been one of our ethos since our inception in 1997.  At that time we became one of the first woodshops in Washington state to be FSC...

Here’s a sneak peak of the Monogram Modern Home. It’s on its way to the South Lake Union Market in Seattle to kick off the tour. Stop by this Saturday and check out the Smith & Vallee kitchen. We’ve partnered with Method Homes and Dwell Magazine to help create the Monogram Modern Home: a 600 square foot moving home that will be on tour to 7 cities around the country. The tour features GE’s Monogram appliance line and is presented by Dwell Magazine. For more information visit...

Smith & Vallee Woodworks is fabricating cabinets for approximately 20 homes, destined for the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. We are so excited to be working on a collaboration with Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and Method Homes to bring safe, healthy and solid LEED certified homes to the Fort Peck Reservation. It feels good to be working on a project that helps to provide low-income housing in an area with high need of shelter.  The designs are very modern and sustainably built....

The holiday season always reminds us why we love our town of Edison, Washington. The Edison Women's Society, who are also in charge of the street light system in the town and run an annual bingo fundraiser, put up hand painted snowmen, candy canes, and Christmas trees throughout all of our main streets. Local residents and businesses deck their halls with lights and lush garlands. Not a place to miss during this time of year and the perfect place to take visitors and out of town holiday...

Every year both exits from Edison are barricaded to call traffic and hundreds of Edison Elementary school students parade around the heart of the town collecting candy from many (many) parents and onlookers. So Long! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Okay, not really. BUT, Wes Smith was featured for an ad for an Intuit credit card iPhone app. Check out some of the shoot that took place in Andrew's Edison kitchen. Coming soon, the real deal.

Happy Earth Day! We would like to reflect on working sustainably by revisiting The Tree Project. Wesley Smith and Andrew Vallee sought to see how many pieces of furniture one tree could yield and in the tracked the history of the tree and subsequently the history of ...the Northwest. Although it was eight years ago to the date, it is still a museum exhibition that is fresh in our minds every day. Thanks for sharing it with us.