No. 02 — Division
Kitchen
and Bath.
Crafted spaces for how you live. We build kitchens and baths we'd be proud of in twenty years — which means good bones, careful proportions, and the kind of finish work most contractors skip.
The approach
Built to last
twenty years.
Most kitchens get renovated every twelve to fifteen years. We try to build kitchens that don't need to be. That doesn't mean trend-proof — it means structurally sound, well-proportioned, and finished with materials that look better at year fifteen than they did the day we left.
Cabinets we'd put in our own homes. Cabinets that open square in year one, year five, and year fifteen. Hardware that doesn't pit. Counters with the right edge profile for the room. Tile work you can read at six inches — straight grout lines, clean miters, no shortcuts at the inside corners. Plumbing rough-ins set for the fixture you actually want, not the one that fits the existing rough-in. The trim returned, the casing mitered, the baseboard scribed to the floor — the things that turn a renovation into a room.
We don't do the work fast and we don't do the work cheap, but we do it on schedule and we do it once. Most full kitchens take eight to twelve weeks. Most primary baths take four to six. Most homeowners can stay in the house the entire time — we set up temporary kitchens and we keep one bath operational through the project.
What we believe
Four things we
don't compromise on.
A kitchen or bath that lasts twenty years isn't built by accident. It's built by four specific habits — applied to every project, on every estimate, regardless of budget.
Cabinets you can lean on.
Solid wood face frames. Plywood box construction, no MDF. Soft-close hardware that's rated for a hundred thousand cycles. Drawer slides that hold a hundred pounds without sagging. Hinges that don't loosen. Hardware you can actually replace in 2046 if you decide to.
Tile work read at six inches.
Tile is the finish work that betrays the most about how a project was built. Lippage means rushed work. A bad inside corner means the tile setter wasn't paying attention. We set every tile with full mortar coverage, with even grout joints, and with mitered edges at every corner where the spec calls for it.
Plumbing for the fixture you want.
Most remodels reuse the existing plumbing rough-in, which means the fixture has to fit the wall. We rough in for the fixture you actually chose. Faucet eight inches off the wall. Toilet flange precisely centered. Tub drain located before the tile goes down, not after.
Finish work that returns.
Cabinet trim returned to the wall. Crown molding mitered, not coped at the corners where it doesn't belong. Baseboard scribed to settled floors. Casing that meets the cabinet, not a caulk line. The details that take an extra day and last another decade.
Recent work
A 1908 kitchen,
returned to working order.
A Cherokee Triangle Victorian whose kitchen had been renovated twice — once in 1978, once in 2001 — and never properly. The original butler's pantry had been drywalled over. The footprint was right; nothing else was. We took it back to studs and built it again.
How we work
Design.
Select.
Build.
A full kitchen takes eight to twelve weeks. A bath takes four to six. The reason we hit the schedule is that we don't start swinging hammers until every decision has been made on paper.
Visit & concept
A founder visits, measures, listens. Within two weeks we send back a concept document — what we'd do with the space, why, with reference imagery and a rough budget range. No design fee for the first round.
Design & selection
Working drawings, cabinet specifications, material selections, fixture spec, lighting plan. We narrow down options together at our shop. Every decision documented before any demolition.
Build
The same crew start to finish. A project manager you can text. Daily site cleanup. Weekly photos and a Friday status email. Temporary kitchen set up for full kitchen projects.
Walkthrough & punch
Mike walks the project room by room before any final invoice. Anything that's off goes on a punch list and gets done that week. The final check follows the punch list — not the other way around.
"Mike spent forty-five minutes on the inside corner of one piece of trim. I asked him what he was doing. He said: 'I'm building this so I'd be okay with my name on it.' Six years later, that trim still looks the way it did the day they finished."
Kitchen & Bath
Tell us about
the room.
What it is now, what you wish it were, what's been driving you slowly out of your mind. A founder visits within a week and you'll have a concept document inside fourteen days.