About us

Hello! We are Phil and Gabbi Kellermann, husband and wife, craftsman and secretary. We started Saint Louis Tables in 2020; although, originally it was more of a Phil-thing than a Gabbi-thing…but teamwork makes the dreamwork!

For Phil, the journey to Saint Louis Tables has been a winding one. We’ll give the cliff notes version. Upon graduating from Truman State University with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Master’s in Secondary History Education, he took a hard right and worked in the personal wealth management world for three years. Then after growing weary of the office setting, he left his desk job and took the leap to pursue a career working with his hands. The move was a surprise to friends and family, but he immediately loved the change. After a few different gigs in construction and carpentry, it was undeniable that he found his calling…and that he would prefer to be his own boss.

Fast forward to March of 2020 and that little thing called a pandemic. Faced with a fork in the road, Gabbi asked the ultimate question, “Why don’t you build tables?” And voila, Saint Louis Tables was born! Well, not really. The idea was born, but it took a while to put it into practice. In hindsight, the first few months of the business consisted of Phil “investing” in woodworking equipment and converting our two-car garage into a woodshop. It went slowly, but it did happen, and later that year he sold his first table (an hourglass trestle-style table, if you’re curious).

Over the next year, he continued building—and learning—in the 450 square-foot woodshop that used to have two cars inside it. We knew the garage would never be permanent home to the business and by June of 2021, he had outgrown it. And Gabbi had had enough of the sawdust and noise. After looking at a few different options we settled on the beautifully utilitarian workshop we continue to occupy today.

By early 2022, he had a real shop, had gotten pretty good at making tables, and steady business was coming through the doors; but what he didn’t have was somebody to keep a lid on things—he needed a secretary. As luck would have it, the answer was hiding right before his eyes. After all, who better to man the administrative-helm than the very person who had the idea for the business in the first place: Gabbi! So there you go! Gabbi works from home in Ballwin while wrangling our four kiddos and keeping the dream alive.