Custom Kitchens designed, built and installed for Santa Monica — century-old bungalows a mile from salt air, on streets with nowhere to park. Our Los Angeles showroom downtown serves the Westside daily.
California kitchens tend to open to the outside more completely than anywhere else we build — full sliders, pass-throughs to a terrace, indoor and outdoor cooking treated as one room. That puts interior cabinetry in reach of direct sun and, near the coast, marine air, so finishes and hardware are chosen for the exposure the room actually gets. The architecture is also unusually specific here, and a kitchen that ignores whether the house is Spanish Colonial, mid-century or contemporary will always look imported.
Ocean air reaches most of the city, and it is closer to a marine environment than people expect a mile inland. Hardware and finishes are specified accordingly rather than as though this were a dry inland market.
The bungalow stock is small-roomed and full of original detail. The usual project takes one wall out and then works hard to make the new cabinetry belong to a house built a century ago.
Streets are dense and parking is genuinely difficult. Deliveries are booked, permitted where required, and kept short.
What follows applies to every custom kitchen we make, in Santa Monica and everywhere else.
A custom kitchen is not a better-made version of a stock one — it is a different process. The plan is drawn around how the room is actually used and what appliances are going in it, and the cabinetry is then made to that drawing. Nothing is sized to a catalogue module, which is why a custom kitchen fits a room that stock cabinetry can only approximate.
The grain match approved on a sample is the grain match delivered, because the same shop sprays every panel in the run.
Every cutout, clearance and ventilation run comes from the appliance list, so we ask for it at the first meeting rather than at the end.
Cabinet widths follow the plan. There are no filler panels covering the difference between a catalogue size and the wall.
More on how we approach this → Custom Kitchens
We work throughout Santa Monica, including North of Montana, Ocean Park, Sunset Park and Wilshire-Montana. The housing here is Craftsman and Spanish bungalows, 1920s and 1930s apartment buildings, and contemporary rebuilds north of Montana, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Los Angeles showroom downtown serves the Westside daily. The showroom is at 506 S Spring St. Visit when it suits, or start by sending the plans and we will come back with a number per room.
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 custom kitchens 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 Santa Monica every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
Book Your Consultation