Design-build

One contract for the drawing and the building.

The drawings, the cabinetry and the construction are ours. There is nobody to point at when something does not line up.

A fluted deep green kitchen island with a thick marble waterfall top — Kirkland/*Island milled in our own shop*

The usual way to renovate a house is to hire two companies who have never met and hope they agree.

An architect draws it. A general contractor prices it, finds the drawings do not survive contact with the building, and issues change orders. A cabinet company measures late and delivers doors that are close. Everyone is competent and the project still costs more and takes longer, because the seams between them are where the money leaks.

The difference, concretely

01
Priced off finished drawings

We do not bid a sketch. The number comes after the plans and elevations are done, which is why it holds.
02
The person who drew it is on site

When the wall opens and the framing is not where the 1926 plans said, the decision gets made that morning, not in a two-week email chain.
03
The cabinets are measured last

Because we mill them, they are cut to the room as built, not to the room as drawn. That is why door gaps stay even across a whole run.
04
One warranty

If the cabinetmaking moves or the tile lifts, there is no argument about whose scope it was.