About Hemlock & Heather

We are Kris and Kelley Denby, a husband and wife team living and creating in Austin, Texas. We started Hemlock & Heather began as a way to make ends meet while Kris finished his degree. At first, we were rehabbing old furniture that we found on the side of the road or in second hand shops, but we quickly realized that was not for us. We shifted gears to stripping desks and coffee tables off their tops and using the frames as a base for mosaic panels that we designed and built from scratch. This was our first foray into the world of wood art, and it felt right. When tragedy struck Kelley’s small home town of West, Texas in the Spring of 2013, she asked me to build something “Texas-y” for a benefit she and friend had planned to raise money for the town. I tend to take things very literally, so I went into the garage and made a Texas cut out from some of the old wood I had lying around my shop. The piece was a hit, and a few months later we were selling our Texas Wall Hangings in West Elm. We’ve built murals for West Elm and Lululemon, and shipped thousands of state-shaped wall hangings, panels, and our ornaments all over the country. Our work has been featured in Fast Company, HGTV Magazine, Texas Monthly, Austin Monthly, Austin Home, and Tribeza. We take pride in every piece we make and ship. And we try to honor the spirit of that first piece by donating pieces every year to different charities.Read their story