Inside the workshop. How a garage gets made.
From a sheet of birch plywood to a child’s name carved into the wood — the process, without the sales language.
The starting point
Most toy garages are made in factories. Ours are made one at a time.
There is a reason it takes three to seven working days to make a garage. It is not bureaucracy. It is not shipping delay. It is the time it actually takes to cut, sand, assemble, paint, wire, and engrave a single piece of furniture by hand in a Warsaw workshop.
This is what that process looks like. Not as a marketing claim — as a description of what happens between the moment an order arrives and the moment a box leaves.
The process
Four stages, in the order they actually happen.
Every garage goes through the same sequence. The steps do not get skipped when the workshop is busy. They do not get compressed to meet a deadline that was set without understanding what the work requires.
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Material selection and cutting.
We use birch plywood — specifically, the grade used in furniture and cabinetry rather than construction. It is denser, smoother, and more consistent than the plywood used in mass-market toys. Each sheet is checked before cutting. Boards with knots, delaminations, or surface irregularities do not make it into a garage. The CNC cuts the structural components to tolerance. The hand work starts immediately after.
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Sanding, assembly, and finishing.
Every edge that a child will touch gets sanded. Not once — in sequence, through progressively finer grits, until the surface is smooth enough that running a hand along it finds nothing. The components are then assembled and checked for alignment before the finish goes on. We use water-based paint throughout — it is more forgiving to work with than solvent-based finishes and produces a cleaner surface on birch. The finish is what gives each colour its character. Olive reads differently from Mint, Wine differently from Graphite — the paint decisions are intentional.
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LED wiring and mechanical fitting.
The LED systems go in after the finish is dry. Every garage gets its LEDs run, connected, and tested before the piece moves forward. On the 94-slot, this means two separate systems — one for the main garage, one for the car wash bay — each checked independently. A garage that leaves the workshop with a dead LED does not come back from the customer in the same condition it left in. The test at this stage catches problems while they are still straightforward to fix. The ramps, barriers, and mechanical elements are fitted at this stage too — everything that moves or slides is tested under load before the piece is considered complete.
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The nameplate.
This is the last step, and the one that makes the piece specific to one child. The name is carved into the wood — not printed, not applied as a sticker, carved. The depth is enough that it will not wear away with handling. The font has been chosen to be legible at the size it appears on the front of the garage while still reading as something crafted rather than produced. We check the spelling against the order before cutting. An incorrectly engraved nameplate cannot be fixed — the piece would need to be remade. This check has saved more than one birthday from a very avoidable problem.
The nameplate goes on last. By that point the garage has already been built, finished, wired, and tested. The name is not a feature. It is the moment the piece becomes specific to one person.
— A note from the workshop
What made to order actually means
The difference between a product and a piece.
Made to order means the garage does not exist until someone orders it. There is no warehouse of finished pieces waiting to be shipped. When an order arrives, the workshop builds that specific garage for that specific child. The name has to be on it because there is no version of the piece that does not have a name on it — every garage is made for someone.
This is not a boutique affectation. It is the only model that makes sense for a product where every piece is slightly different — different name, sometimes different colour, always different customer. A warehouse of pre-built, unnamed garages would be a warehouse of generic objects. The made-to-order model is what makes personalization possible at this level of quality.
The lead time is a consequence of this. Three to seven working days is what the process actually takes when it is done properly. It is not padding. On weeks when the workshop is busy, the work takes longer — and the lead time estimate reflects that honestly rather than promising something faster than is possible.
Every garage that leaves Warsaw has been touched by the same hands at every stage — the cutting, the sanding, the finishing, the wiring, and the name at the end. There is no step that happens somewhere else.
A note from the workshop
What we have learned from making thousands of them.
The most consistent piece of feedback we get is about weight. Parents pick up the garage when it arrives and comment on how heavy it is. They expected something lighter — toy-weight rather than furniture-weight. The birch plywood is denser than they anticipated, and the assembled piece feels like something that will still be in the room in five years rather than something that will flex and crack after a season of use.
The second piece of feedback is about the nameplate specifically. Parents say the child’s reaction to seeing their name on the front is different from their reaction to any other feature — different from the LEDs, different from the car wash, different from the number of slots. It is the detail that makes the garage theirs rather than a garage. We have been making nameplates long enough to know that this response is consistent across ages, across languages, across every name we have ever carved.
The third thing we have learned is about the ready-to-ship pieces. They are the same craftsmanship — same plywood, same finishing process, same LED testing — with the only difference being that they were built without a specific name in mind. The personalisation for a ready-to-ship piece goes on the gift card rather than the wood. For parents whose deadline is the day after tomorrow, this is the right answer. For everyone else, the made-to-order piece is worth the wait.
What comes out of the workshop
Three garages. One process.
Each one built the same way — birch, water-based paint, hand-sanded edges, carved nameplate, LED-tested before it ships.
Stage 02 · Ages 4–6
91-Slot Personalized Garage
The first garage. Built to order, named, LED-tested, shipped.
Stage 03 · Ages 6–9
94-Slot Garage with Car Wash
Two LED systems, working car wash. Both tested before the box closes.
Stage 04 · Ages 9+
Kronus Garage with Drawers
Display on top, three drawers below. The most complex build in the range.
Made in Warsaw. Shipped across the EU.
Every piece built to order, every name carved by hand. Three to seven working days in the workshop, one to four in transit. Order ten to fourteen days before the date.
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