Custom Kitchens 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.
Almost every New York kitchen is a fitting problem before it is a design one. The room is smaller than the brief, the building is older than the plan assumes, and the walls are neither square nor plumb. That is why nothing here is fabricated from a drawing alone — the run is templated on site, scribes are drawn in from the start, and tall units are engineered so they can physically be carried into the room. Getting the appliances agreed early matters more here than anywhere, because in a space this tight a change of oven can move the whole run.
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.
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.
What follows applies to every custom kitchen we make, in Brooklyn 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.
Cabinet widths follow the plan. There are no filler panels covering the difference between a catalogue size and the wall.
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.
More on how we approach this → Custom Kitchens
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 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 Brooklyn every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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