Before it is a room,
it is a tree.
Every cabinet in every house we finish began as a rough board on a rack in our shop. Which board, and why, is the first real decision of a project — and the one clients almost never get to make anywhere else.
Choose a species.
Five hardwoods we keep on the rack. Choose one to see the grain up close, and what it will do once it is living in your house.
White Oak
Quercus alba
It all starts here.
Not on a showroom floor. In a room with a rack of rough boards, a bench, and a drawing taped to the wall above it. Doors are hung and adjusted here first, so that the day we arrive at your house is a quiet one.
It is the least glamorous room in the business and the only reason the finished ones look the way they do.
From rough stock to hung door.
Select
Boards are pulled and laid out so grain runs continuously across a bank of doors, not randomly.
Mill
Stock is jointed, planed, and cut to the drawing. Reveals are set here, not corrected on site.
Join
Carcasses and doors are assembled and dry-fitted, then adjusted until every gap matches its neighbour.
Finish
Sealed and hand-rubbed in stages, with samples checked against the room's actual light before committing.
A cabinet door is a small thing. It is also the thing a family will touch ten thousand times a year.
See the grain in your own light.
We bring finished samples to the house, where you can hold them against your floors, your stone, and the light the room actually gets. It settles most of the material conversation in one sitting.
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