FURNITURE & CABINET MAKER

Career Outlook

Your New Career
As a Furniture and Cabinet Maker, you'll enjoy the creativity of building a structure with your own hands and the satisfaction that goes along with doing an important job, and doing it well.

• Earn your Career Diploma at home in as little as six months by studying just an hour a day for your new career.
• Work for a furniture dealer or at a repair shop or manufacturer crafting quality furniture and cabinets.
• Start your own business. Work part-time from home or open a full-time custom furniture and cabinet shop of your own.

Apply the skills you learn in your training program for a successful and secure future.

Your New Skills
You'll learn every important part of being a Furniture and Cabinet Maker.

• The basics. Introduction to fine woodworking, layout techniques, basic joinery, selecting and preparing a finish, marketing your woodworking shop.
• Design techniques. Learn how cabinets are designed for a kitchen.
• Cabinet and furniture construction. Case and drawer construction, finishing and refacing.

Program Overview

Train for a career in Furniture and Cabinet Making — at home, at your own pace, with the Continuing Education Center.

There are certain skills you need to begin a career in Furniture and Cabinet Making.The Continuing Education Center Furniture and Cabinet Maker Program helps you learn them quickly and conveniently. Learn woodworking techniques and create beautiful pieces of furniture in just a few months!

You'll learn about:

• Fine woodworking, woodworking specialties, and wood processing
• Setting up your workplace, woodworking tools and materials.
• Joinery, box making basics, hardware fasteners, finishing wood Cabinet design, construction, refinishing
  and refacing.
• Marketing your woodworking shop

And you'll learn it all at home — no classroom needed!

Start a creative, moneymaking career in Furniture and Cabinet Making.
Why complete a training program to work in Furniture and Cabinet Making or woodworking? With the right credentials, techniques, and training, you can:

• Work for a furniture retail store or furniture and cabinet repair shop.
• Work at a home improvement store or for a cabinet manufacturer.
• Start your own woodworking shop and specialize in custom furniture and cabinet making.

Woodworkers are needed by furniture and cabinet manufacturers, repair shops, and suppliers. Opportunity is everywhere!

Contact the Continuing Education Center Today.

Find out more about complete Furniture and Cabinet Making training that includes:

• All the books, lessons, equipment, and learning aids you need
• Professional-quality tools and equipment for your woodworking shop
• Instructions and supplies for hands-on projects
• Toll-free instructional support
• Access to student services by website, phone, and mail

Program Outline

Instruction Sets
Your program consists of eight Instruction Sets written to take you step-by-step through the techniques and skills you'll use in your new career.

Here's how it works
Your first Instruction Set will be sent immediately after your enrollment has been accepted. Other Instruction Sets will follow as you complete your exams, so that you will always have training materials to work with.

You will need access to a Microsoft® Windows®-based computer (running Windows Vista or later) and the Internet in order to complete your program with the Continuing Education Center.

Here is an overview of what you'll learn and the order in which you'll receive your lessons.

Online Library and Librarian
Students in the Continuing Education Center have access to an online library for use during their studies. Students can use this library to do the required research in the courses they complete or can use it for general reference and links to valuable resources. The library contains helpful research assistance, articles, databases, books, and Web links. A librarian is available to answer questions on general research-related topics via email and to assist students in research activities during their studies with the Continuing Education Center.

We reserve the right to change program content and materials when it becomes necessary.