Custom cabinetry and millwork, built to verified field measurements and one written standard. Odd widths are normal. Filler strips are not.
Every cabinet is built to the same written construction standard. It is not an upgrade and it is not optional. What changes from job to job is the room and the selections, never how the box is made.
Every run is sized to the verified wall. No filler strips added to make stock widths work.
3/4" veneer-core plywood throughout, including a 3/4" back. Dadoed and glued. No MDF, no particleboard, no staples.
Solid hardwood, 3/4" thick, 1 1/2" stiles and rails.
Inset is the default, with a 3/32" reveal all round. Full and partial overlay by selection. Soft-close hinges.
Solid hard maple, dovetailed, on undermount soft-close slides.
Lock-mitered to the face-frame stile, every time. Plain, door-panel or drawer-and-door, per end.
Integral. The sides run to the floor and the cabinet is shimmed level at install. No plastic leveling legs.
Sprayed catalyzed finish. Every color mixed for the job, approved on a signed sample door before production.
Melamine interiors. Thin backs. Frameless boxes. Glazing or distressing. Ready-to-assemble. Pulls bored at the shop — hardware is drilled in the field, on the installed cabinet.
There is no good-better-best. The standard is fixed. You choose the look, and one optional package.
How every cabinet is built. No opt-out, no upcharge.
What the room is made of.
One package per job, taken whole.
Pet stations, hamper pullouts, arched valances, shallow end caps — anything outside the catalog goes to the shop as a full drawing set: plan, section, elevation and 3D views. Every assumption is flagged before a board is cut.
The order, the construction standard, the verified field measurements and a drawing set for every custom piece.
Any dimension not given by the designer is marked and listed under Confirm Before Cutting.
Each custom piece joins the catalog, so the next one starts from a drawing that has already been built.
Most commissions come to us through an interior designer or builder. If you don't have one, our design partner at 80 South Collective can draw the room with you.
Your designer's drawings, or ours through 80 South.
Every wall measured on site and signed off before ordering.
Shop drawings for every piece the catalog doesn't cover.
A finished sample door, signed off before production.
Built to the standard by a guild shop, marked and signed.
Set, scribed and shimmed. Hardware drilled in place.
Two staves, one tenon through both. The seal is the joint the name comes from — and it goes on every cabinet we sell.
The Stave & Tenon seal is branded into the top drawer box by the shop, in raw wood, before finish.
A maker's tag on the back of the top drawer front: designer, homeowner, builder and date.
The builder signs the inside of the back in pencil. Every cabinet has a name on it.
The trade has a vocabulary. We use it, and we teach it, so you know exactly what you are being sold.
We work mainly through the trade. Send your drawings and notes — elevations, a 2020 file, a sketch with dimensions — and we return a priced Stave & Tenon order with anything custom detailed for the shop. You keep the client.
Need the cabinetry drawn? Cabinet design, renderings and order support are available through our design partner, 80 South Collective.