Tom Lavy’s Stonewood Creators

Just picked up our custom, «house divided» bench from Tom’s shop. He is an absolute pleasure to work with. We probably had 5 calls and several visits to his shop to discuss what we wanted to do before ever placing the order. He’s always there to answer questions, and his trusty sidekick (yellow lab) is usually there to greet you as well. :) He gave us guidance on how to prolong the life of the bench, how to give it a weathered look, how to repair it if anything ever was to happen to it, etc. The shop has a ton of custom, «country» looking accessories to decorate your home/​office, all at very reasonable rates. I also liked the small town approach of refusing to take any money for our bench until we had seen it and were pleased with it… something that I doubt he would ever be able to sell to another customer. But he was that confident that we’d like it and he was correct!

While enjoying the Dickens of a Christmas festival, I walked in to Tom Lavy’s to browse. This is a pretty cool shop.
Outside were custom cement benches with various logos, designs, etc. (See photos). The benches were around $ 200. Inside the store were various cast iron decorative items, including some in the shape of Texas.
This would be a great shop to visit to find some items to hang in an office, Texas themed room or «man cave».
The shop is small, but the items were fairly priced and there were plenty of them. It would be nice if the shop had a website so I could ship items to Louisiana. I wold imagine shipping on a bench could get expensive.
This shop is definitely worth a trip.

A lot of the businesses in downtown McKinney don’t have web sites. This one is the most frustrating because I love the stuff in this shop. I would love to shoot a link to a friend and say, «Hey, look at this», but, no. Argghh!
This shop makes custom concrete benches for the garden and lots of neat little accent pieces for the home that are commonly described as rustic. It’s just a little shop but he always has half a dozen different benches (they are the kind embellished with designs made out of bits of colorful ceramic tile). When you go in, you’ll see tons of little wrought iron knick knacks — wall hangers, crosses, candle holders, etc. He does work in wood and metal and barbed wire. You just have to see it (it kind of defies description) but I could throw a dart in this place and hit something cool. I have a wonderful wrought iron candle lantern from here that I just love and makes a wonderful centerpiece.
Something else that is cool is that he has a workshop in the back behind the counter. When the door is open, you can see him working on his next piece. He even has a dog back there with him! Sometimes we walk by and see him having a meal on a table out on the sidewalk with either family or friends (we don’t know who he is dining with but we are assuming he does). You just can’t find this kind of store just anywhere.