Built-Ins and Wall Units designed, built and installed for Manhattan — pre-war buildings that are never square and boards that decide the schedule. Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, a straightforward run from anywhere in 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.
Everything has to fit a passenger or service lift and turn in a pre-war corridor. Cabinets are sized to be carried, and anything that will not fit is engineered to assemble on site.
Pre-war apartments are out of square, out of plumb and rarely level. Every run is templated on site, scribes are drawn in from the start, and nothing is fabricated off a plan alone.
Co-op and condo boards run the job. Alteration agreements, insurance certificates, approved contractors, permitted work hours, elevator bookings and a building engineer signing off — all of it precedes the first delivery, and none of it is negotiable. We build the schedule around the building's rules.
This is the constant. Wherever the job is, a built-ins & wall unit from us is put together this way.
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.
Shelf spacing, panel widths and reveals are drawn to the wall's real dimensions and to what is going on the shelves.
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.
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We work throughout Manhattan, including the Upper East Side, Tribeca, the West Village, the Upper West Side and Chelsea. The housing here is pre-war co-ops and condominiums, converted loft buildings downtown, and townhouses across the older districts, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, a straightforward run from anywhere in the borough. The showroom is at 1200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. Come and see the materials in person, or send the drawings and we will price the job room by 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 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 Manhattan every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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