The Level 2 Diploma in Furniture Making is a practical, employer focused course that builds accurate setting out, safe tool and machinery use, and the manufacture of high quality furniture components.  

You will learn to read drawings, create cutting lists, select and prepare timber and panel products, and produce frames, carcasses, doors, and drawers using core joints and reliable assembly methods. Training develops confident hand skills—sawing, planing, chiselling, scraping, and fine fitting—alongside approved machine operations such as saws, planers, thicknessers, routers, and sanders with correct guards and extraction.  

You will practise laminating and basic veneering, install fittings and ironmongery, and achieve consistent surface preparation and finishing to commercial tolerances. Teaching takes place in well equipped workshops with industry experienced tutors on structured, portfolio worthy projects.  

Assessment combines online or written knowledge tests, observed practical tasks, and a synoptic assignment where you plan, set out, manufacture, assemble, and finish a complete piece to specification and deadline.  

On completion, you can progress to a Level 3 programme, an Apprenticeship, or step into employment as a trainee cabinet maker or bench joiner.