This kitchen was a fun project and has so many cool details. It was a great project to design and build.

The corner sink design is a main focal point for this kitchen. It makes the most of the corner windows that look out into the private garden.

On top of that this kitchen has an island, a built in pantry, a hutch, and a built in table with seating area.

The walk in pantry is hidden next to the fridge. We also made the pantry walls into small cabinets. They are perfect for can storage and other small items.

This is another modern shaker style kitchen which uses frameless cabinets with shaker panels and 1/8” reveals.

Materials:

• Walnut Butcher Block

• Rubio Monocrat Clear for Walnut Finish

• Puck lighting

• Sherwin Williams Oil Base Paint

• Blum Blumotion Softclose Hardware for Door and Drawer Slides

• 3/4” Purebond Maple Plywood for cabinet construction

• 5/8” Baltic Birch Plywood for drawer boxes

This art library has some really unique features and was a lot of fun to b uild. The top of the display case is glass and reveals the displayed artwork in a fully functioning drawer.

For the Richlite we went with a honed finish to give it a leather type of look. There are so many other cool details in this build like the lighting hidden in the top of the walnut display case.

Materials:

• 1 1/2”, 3/4” and 1/2” Walnut Hardwood

• 3/4” Baltic Birch

• 5/8” Baltic Birch

• 1/4” Richlite

• Tempered Glass

• Rubio Monocoat for Walnut and Richlite Finish

• Sherwin Williams Emerald Urethane Paint

Designed by Shipley Architects

This project features some unique design elements that make it a truly unique space. It was a great project to work on and in the end all the finished and the design make this a truly great kitchen.

The floating island is just one of the key features that seem to just pull you into the space. The island has two different levels which is a great way to separate the dining area from the kitchen.

Designed by Architect - Tony Jeffry

So what makes a shaker kitchen modern? I define it as a frameless kitchen with 1/8” reveals. It is a really cool look.

There are so many details in this kitchen I hope I don’t leave any out. All of the painted cabinets are made out of maple plywood and maple hardwood. All of the stained cabinets are made out of white oak hardwood and plywood.

The island wainscoting is made out of white oak hardwood and plywood. The columns for the island are also white oak hardwood.

This was a really fun kitchen to build that was really well thought out. I like that we decided to make the drawer boxes out of white oak. It really ties the white oak island and the white painted cabinets together.

Materials used - white oak hardwood, maple hardwood, white oak plywood, maple plywood.

Adding this island to this kitchen really made the space a lot more functional. We added a space for the microwave, a storage drawer, a recycling and trash drawer, plus seating for two.

This was a fun project to work on and I really like how the walnut countertop enhances an already well designed kitchen. Grain matching the waterfall edge for the countertop captures everything in a neat way.

Materials:

• Walnut Butcher Block

• Rubio Monocrat Clear for Walnut Finsh

• PPG Breakthrough for paint

• Blum Blumotion Softclose Hardware for Door and Drawer Slides

• 3/4” Purebond Maple Plywood for cabinet construction

• 5/8” Baltic Birch Plywood for drawer boxes

This kitchen is such a great design and was a fun project to work on. I really like how the maple interior looks against the white exterior.

This kitchen is in a 50’s pier and beam house. The homeowner wanted to have a nice clean design that would also fit in with the age and style of the house.

It is such a great looking kitchen and was a fun project to work on!

Floor to ceiling wainscoting with a hidden door on this wall.

The homeowners asked me to build them a reclaimed vanity for their bathroom. These pictures represent the finished product that we came up with.

I wanted to have a modern design for the cabinet and drawers and use the reclaimed wood on the exterior to give it that reclaimed look.

The wood for the exterior is made from 200 year old oak that was removed from a barn in Germany. The wood itself is beautiful and really completes the whole project.

Part of the puzzle for building this vanity was how to incorporate the plumbing into the cabinet in a way that would allow access but will still look good. I wanted the plumbing to be hidden and for everything to be finished on the inside, so when you open a drawer it just looks like a piece of furniture.

The solution was to build a box inside a box, or to be more exact two drawer boxes inside the bigger vanity box. I have done similar things like this in other furniture builds but this was my first time trying it out on a vanity.

The two drawer boxes inside are separated by a small push to open door. The drawer boxes come out giving you full access to the plumbing.

I also wanted the interior of the box to be all white, to match the trim color they homeowners have in the rest of their house. I wanted the interior to be bright and clean looking. To not be what you may have expected it to look like from the outside.

The contrast of the white on the interior and the 200 year oak for the exterior look great and will make the vanity much more useable over the years.

Materials:

• 200 Year Old Oak

• Rubio Monocrat Clear for Oak Finish

• Benjamin Moore Command for Interior Paint

• Blum Blumotion Soft-close Drawer Slides

• 3/4” Pure-bond Maple Plywood for Cabinet Construction

Floor to ceiling wainscoting throughout this bathroom.

Master Bath Vanity made out of white oak.

The radiused floating vanity is the focal point in this bathroom. I really like the design aesthetic of using curves in cabinetry.

Materials used - white oak hardwood, veneer, and plywood.

We took the sunroom on this 1940’s home and turned it into a full bath with a custom walk in shower. It was a fun project to work on and the finished result fits the home perfectly.

This was part of a bigger project where we also added on this bathroom and a laundry room with built in cabinets.

Check out the 1940’s Laundry Room Addition to see the whole project.

This is a built in walnut couch and bar area that we did in this custom house. Really fun build and collaboration with the home owners.

This was a laundry room addition that we added on to a 1940’s house near University Park.

It was a really fun project to work on. It was part of a bigger project in which we added this laundry room and a full bathroom.

Check out the 1940’s Bathroom Addition page as well.

We took these photos of this walk in closet before we had a chance to put all the shelves in place. It was a great design and a fun closet to build.

Adding this 19’ White Oak bench with storage to this family room really made a big difference in the room. This room went from having no storage to having nineteen feet of it neatly tucked away under a bench.

Figuring out how to get this long of a bench into this 2nd story family room was a bit of a challenge. It was too long to glue it up beforehand and carry it in so we decided to assemble and glue it up in the room.

This added a little bit of complexity to a normally not complicated process. Gluing it up in the room meant we had to cut it, scribe it to the wall, and sand it all in the same room.

The finished product looks great and we really had fun working with homeowner on this one.

Materials:

• White Oak for Bench

• Rubio Monocrat clear for Oak Finish

• PPG Breakthrough for Paint

This was a great design that the customer and I came up with. They already had a great idea of what they wanted and it turned out really nice.

This was a fun project that we did for a tech company down in Deep Ellum. They were wanting a help desk to meet with customers who come in for support.

After a few different design ideas we came up with this raw steel countertop and cedar combination. It turned out great and is a wonderful addition to their office.

The cold rolled steel waterfall countertop is one of the main focal points for the bar area. Designing the bar top so that it could support the weight of the steel countertop and also be welded tougher was a fun challenge.

I decided to build it in pieces and then bring it to their office and assemble the pieces… like a big lego set. One of the reason I split it up was I didn’t want welding going on inside their office unless it was absolutely necessary.

I separated the countertop and frame into one section and then the cabinets, doors, and drawers into another section.

I also had to consider the weight of the pieces since the install for this was on a second floor with no elevators… so I had to build it in a way that wouldn’t be too heavy to carry up the stairs.

When lifting heavy things having lots of people around to help makes easy work of it. The guys from the tech company helped us carry the bar/countertop area up the stairs which was a great help.

It was a pretty easy install… once everything was built in the shop, loaded in a trailer, driven twenty miles away to their office, unloaded from a narrow one way street into the first floor of the office, rolled on dollies to the stairs, and then carried up the stairs.. once all that was done it was an easy install.

Materials Used - Cedar with Rubio Monocoat Pure Oil, 18 Guage Cold Rolled Steel, Raw Steel Pulls, Blum Soft Close Door Hinges, Blum Soft Close Drawer Glides, Purebond Birch Plywood, Maple Hardwood for Cabinet Edging.

In this project we were adding a small home office in the kitchen. We matched the cabinets to the shaker style that they already had in the rest of their house. It turned out great and made a great work area!

The desk area incorporates a hidden door to hide all of the plugs and electronic devices.