Built-Ins and Wall Units designed, built and installed for Los Angeles — houses with strong architectural identities, on streets that are hard to deliver to. Our Los Angeles showroom is on South Spring Street downtown.
California built-ins tend to be low, horizontal and continuous, because that is what suits both the mid-century stock and most contemporary building here. The discipline is restraint — a long, quiet run with a considered reveal reads better in these houses than a tall storage wall. Where the joinery meets glazing, and it usually does, the reveal between the two has to be drawn rather than left to the site.
Hillside properties are an access problem. Narrow streets, long stair runs from the kerb and no staging area mean cabinets are sized to be carried by hand and delivered in sequence rather than all at once.
Seismic requirements mean tall cabinetry and heavy runs are anchored properly. That is straightforward when it is planned and awkward when it is not.
Los Angeles housing is stylistically specific in a way most markets are not. A Spanish Colonial in Hancock Park and a mid-century in Silver Lake want genuinely different cabinetry, and the fastest way to get a house wrong is to apply one language to both.
None of this changes by location. It is the standard every built-ins & wall unit leaves the shop to, Los Angeles included.
Built-in joinery is what makes a room feel finished rather than furnished. A media wall, a library, a bar, a window seat, a home office — each one turns an awkward wall or an unused alcove into something the room needs, and each one has to be set out to the architecture rather than dropped in front of it.
Shelf spacing, panel widths and reveals are drawn to the wall's real dimensions and to what is going on the shelves.
Power, data, ventilation and cable routes are designed into the joinery, not chased in afterwards.
In an older property the profiles are matched to what is already there; in a contemporary one the reveals do the work instead.
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We work throughout Los Angeles, including Hancock Park, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Brentwood and Venice. The housing here is Spanish Colonial and Craftsman houses, mid-century hillside homes, and a steady flow of contemporary rebuilds, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Los Angeles showroom is at 506 S Spring St. Bring the plans, or send them over and we will itemise the cabinetry by room before you visit.
Every project is photographed room by room with the materials and the detailing listed, so you can see how a job like this is actually put together before you commit to one.
See the built-ins & wall units we have built
You can also search every finish we specify and every appliance we design around.
One shop draws, finishes and installs all of it, which is why the closet matches the kitchen and there is one number to call when something needs adjusting.
Book a free 30-minute consultation with a designer who works in Los Angeles every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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