Look around you, you are bound to see several products made from wood. Yet there are still many people who question, what is joinery? Joinery is a skilled trade which involves constructing furniture, houses, ships, offices, shops. This usually involves materials such as wood and timber but can often incorporate other materials such as plastics and cement boards.

Joinery can either be simple or complicated, it can either involve two pieces of wood being nailed or glued together or it can involve intricate joining of two pieces of wood. Although the primary purpose of joinery is to hold wood together strongly and securely, yet it can also be used in a decorative manner too.

Joinery is an important part of woodworking and is found almost everywhere you look in furniture, windows, doors and flooring. It is a specialist area of carpentry where you would get a specialist joiner or cabinetmaker to do the work, rather than a general carpenter.