Wall Paneling 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, panelling earns its place twice over. It gives a room the proportion that pre-war architecture assumed and later renovations stripped out, and it hides the fact that the wall behind it is neither flat nor plumb. It can also carry storage and jib doors inside a single continuous surface, which in an apartment where every inch counts is the most useful thing joinery can do.
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.
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.
What follows applies to every wall paneling we make, in Brooklyn and everywhere else.
Panelling is the quietest thing we make and the one that changes a room most. It gives a wall proportion, hides the joins where a house is not square, and carries doors, storage and lighting inside a single continuous surface — but only if it is set out properly, because a panel grid that misses its openings is worse than a plain wall.
Jib doors, cupboards and services can disappear into the panelling so the wall reads as one surface.
Three different registers for three different rooms — the choice is made against the architecture, not against a trend.
Panel joints are planned to land on door openings, corners and switch positions rather than wherever the module falls.
More on how we approach this → Wall Paneling
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 wall paneling 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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