Built-Ins and Wall Units designed, built and installed for Westchester — big formal houses where the job is a kitchen, a pantry, a mudroom and a laundry. Our New York showroom in Brooklyn serves the county; most projects there are drawn on site.
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.
Four real seasons mean genuine humidity swings between summer and a heated winter. Solid timber elements are sized and detailed to move, because they will.
Older houses here often have plaster over lath, uneven floors and radiators in inconvenient places. Every one of those affects how a run is set out.
Westchester houses are big and formal, and the kitchen is usually the room that was last to be modernised. A butler's pantry, a mudroom and a real laundry are as much a part of the brief as the kitchen itself — the cabinetry job is rarely one room.
The specification below is the same whether the job is in Westchester or anywhere else we work — it is how we build, not what we build for the market.
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.
More on how we approach this → Built-Ins & Wall Units
We work throughout Westchester, including Scarsdale, Rye, Bronxville, Chappaqua and Larchmont. The housing here is large colonials and Tudors on generous lots, many of them pre-war and on their third or fourth kitchen, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our New York showroom in Brooklyn serves the county; most projects there are drawn on site. The showroom is at 1200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. 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 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 Westchester every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
Book Your Consultation