Hiemstra’s Woodworking — Family-Run Custom Cabinet Shop in Aylmer, Elgin County, ON since 1967
Hiemstra’s Woodworking is a family-run custom cabinet shop at 136 South Street West in Aylmer, Ontario (N5H 1S1), founded by Wytze Hiemstra in 1967 and now operated by Charlie Hiemstra and Ryan Hiemstra as the only two employees. Continuously operating for 58+ years, this is one of the directory’s longest-tenured listings and the first Elgin County cabinet shop on the directory. As a two-person shop, every job is personally drafted, built, and installed by the Hiemstra family — there is no project-management layer between the customer and the people doing the work.
Services
- Custom kitchen cabinets, designed and built in-shop
- Bathroom vanities, built-ins, and millwork
- Solid wood and Mennonite-tradition furniture pieces
- Custom finish carpentry to homeowner spec
- Hand-finishing and on-site cabinet installation
Service Area
Aylmer, St. Thomas, Tillsonburg, Port Burwell, Springfield, and the surrounding Elgin County corridor along Highway 3 / Highway 73 — with the South Street West shop functioning as the primary client-meeting and showroom point.
Why it’s on home.renovation.reviews
Hiemstra’s earns a place in the directory on tenure alone: 1967 places this firm on the long-running-firm shortlist alongside Pat Noble Lumber Gore Bay (1949), Goderich Electric (1957), Sunvale Homes (3-generation Collingwood), and L. Patten & Sons (Collingwood, since 1958). The Mennonite woodworking tradition in the Aylmer area is a documented part of Elgin County’s tourism and craft economy, and Hiemstra’s is one of the named representatives of that tradition. As a tiny family shop, the public footprint is light by design — a Yellow Pages listing, a Facebook page, and a Houzz profile rather than a mass-marketing site. We’ve kept this profile honest about that scope rather than padding it with boilerplate.
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