Ingrained Style is a family business that makes and sells its own brand of quality, handcrafted country style furniture. Based in Calgary, Canada, Ingrained Style’s retail store is in the heart of the Kensington shopping district and provides furnishings for the bedroom, dining and living room. Focused on quality and character, Ingrained Style’s furniture is based on antique Canadiana and Shaker styles with special attention to design, materials and construction standards. To maintain quality and uniqueness, local Canadian artisans handcraft most of the other offerings in the store, such as mattresses, accessories, lamps, rugs and accent pieces.


Family History

The owner of Ingrained Style is Michael Dopf, who learned how to handcraft fine furniture from his father Franz. Mike’s mission is to provide excellent quality, fine furniture at a reasonable price while allowing the customer to individualize their piece by choosing the stain and finishing style.

Incorporated in 1996 as The Pine Shop, Ingrained Style has over 3000 sq ft of retail space to showcase almost all the catalogue products, as well as several custom pieces. The Craftsmen Workshop, also in Calgary, has over 9360 sq ft of building and inventory space. This allows Ingrained Style to carry most catalogue items in inventory to minimize wait times.

Ingrained Style also has a Custom Workshop to cater to our clients who want to see their dream furniture become reality.


Craftsmanship

In this age of mass-production and warehouse stores, Ingrained Style stands out against the grain. Our furniture starts out as raw wood from select Western white pine that is kiln dried to 7% humidity to minimize warping, shrinkage and cracking. Our Rustic Log Home collection is made from Lodge Pole Pine that we harvest, dry and hand peel ourselves.

Ingrained Style craftsmen have over 85 years of combined experience and make each piece from start to finish to the standards set out by Michael. There are no assembly lines or mass machinery at Ingrained Style, which allows us to maintain strict construction standards such as dovetail joints, floating raised panel doors, and mortise and tenon door frames.

To see our entire line of furniture, please visit the Home Furniture section of our web site, request a paper catalogue, or visit our showroom.