Built-Ins and Wall Units designed, built and installed for Brooklyn — rowhouses with sloping floors, narrow stairs and mouldings worth keeping. Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway, in the middle of the borough.
In New York, built-ins are how an apartment gets storage it does not otherwise have. A wall of joinery in a pre-war living room replaces a room's worth of furniture and gives back the floor, and in a rowhouse the alcoves either side of a chimney breast are usually the only place a library can go. All of it is set out to walls that are not straight, and detailed to sit with mouldings that are a century old.
Landmarked districts control the exterior and, in some cases, more than that. Interiors are generally unrestricted, but it is worth establishing which district a house sits in before anything touching a window or a facade is drawn.
These houses move. Floors slope, walls bow, and a 12-foot run can lose an inch end to end. Scribes and site templating are standard, not contingency.
The brownstone is the defining problem and the defining opportunity. Long narrow floors, a kitchen usually at garden level, original mouldings worth keeping, and stairs that decide what can physically get in. Cabinetry is built to be carried up a rowhouse stair.
What follows applies to every built-ins & wall unit we make, in Brooklyn and everywhere else.
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 Brooklyn, including Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg and Fort Greene. The housing here is brownstones and limestone rowhouses, converted industrial buildings, and new condominium along the waterfront, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway, in the middle of the borough. The showroom is at 1200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. 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 Brooklyn every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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