Built-Ins and Wall Units designed, built and installed for Newport Beach — tiny harbour lots with nowhere to stage and salt air on every elevation. Our Los Angeles showroom serves Orange County; Newport projects are scheduled as full-day site visits.
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.
This is a boating and waterfront market, so salt exposure is constant and outdoor living is used year round. Aluminium rather than stainless is the right answer for exterior cabinetry here.
Coastal building rules apply near the water, and anything affecting an exterior should have its approvals confirmed before it is fabricated.
Balboa and Lido lots are famously small, with houses built to the line and streets barely wide enough for a delivery truck. Cabinetry is sized to be walked in, and installs are sequenced tightly because there is nowhere to stage material.
The specification below is the same whether the job is in Newport Beach or anywhere else we work — it is how we build, not what we build for the market.
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.
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.
Shelf spacing, panel widths and reveals are drawn to the wall's real dimensions and to what is going on the shelves.
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We work throughout Newport Beach, including Balboa Island, Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, Lido Isle and Harbor Island. The housing here is harbour-front houses on small island lots, larger estates in Newport Coast, and a dense stock of 1970s and 1980s homes being rebuilt, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Los Angeles showroom serves Orange County; Newport projects are scheduled as full-day site visits. The 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 Newport Beach every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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