The aroma of freshly cut wood immediately greets anyone who walks into Woods & Company furniture and home decor store. Owners and sisters Val Langan and Nettie Goldstein are not lumberjacks, but experts in painting, staining and decorating unfinished real wood furniture.
Woods & Company has been voted Best Furniture Store and Best Store for Home Decor in the Best of the Abingtons Readers’ Contest, sponsored by the Abington Journal, a publication of the Times Leader Media Group.
Located at Village Centre, 639 Northern Blvd. in South Abington Twp. for the last 10 years, Woods & Company has been in business since 2003 but the sisters started much earlier.
Langan and Goldstein got into the business under the Naked Furniture franchise before branching out on their own.
“We have unfinished furniture we order from around the United States from different manufacturers and we’ll finish it for the customer,” Langan said. “We’ll order it finished, coming in finished, they’ll come in and pick out colors, paints and stains. We’ll hand-paint it or antique it or distress it.”
“It’s all wood; we don’t sell anything that is not real wood,” Goldstein added. Woods & Company sells strictly USA products and has a large assortment of paint and stain samples to suit a customer’s needs for any décor.
Langan freely admits Nettie is very creative and artistic and was doing do-it-yourself projects before they became mainstream.
“Not so much with furniture,” Goldstein said of her creativity and design work at first, admitting it wasn’t until the sisters purchased Naked Furniture that she adapted her skills to furniture.
Both women had jobs as pharmaceutical sales representatives before venturing into the furniture and home decor business.
“We’ve always wanted to own our own business,” Goldstein said.
In addition to selling and finishing wood furniture, Woods & Company also sells home accent products and accessories and custom window treatments.
If you would like to redecorate your home and need help, Woods & Company can help.
“We do interior consultations,” Goldstein said. “If someone needs ideas with help with one room or a whole house, we come up with a color scheme and we work together with what the customer likes and we have thousands of fabrics.” Woods & Company also offers reupholstering services.
Goldstein said, even though the sisters offer design, the “meat and potatoes” of their business is wood furniture.
“We’re also known for our great décor,” Langan said. “We really have unique things like clocks and prints and lamps. We always have new things coming in.”
For as much as the duo enjoys selling home décor and furniture, both women believe in giving back to the community.
“We are very community-minded so we have a lot of connections within the community and volunteer for a lot of organizations and give back to our community,” Langan said. “We donate things to organizations such as St. Joe’s, Women’s Resource Center, Marley’s Mission, the Waverly Community House, the local PTAs and many more. People know we care about our community.”
“We work well with the customers and we’re honest with them,” Goldstein said. “We want to make them happy.”
Woods & Company will present and host “Art in the Woods” June 7 and 8, featuring an exhibit of artists, husband and wife Bill Teitsworth and Renée Emanuel, who specialize in water color and acrylic.
The exhibit is open Friday, June 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
“This is a chance for the community to come and purchase art,” Goldstein said.
For further information about Woods & Company, log onto www.woodsandcompany.com or call 570-585-5685. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
