Questions we get every week.

For a full kitchen in painted maple with inset doors, most of our projects land between $28,000 and $62,000 installed, depending on the number of boxes, the species and the hardware. A single built-in bookcase wall typically runs $4,200–$9,500. We give you a fixed written number before any work begins, and the estimate itself is free.

Our shop calendar usually books six to nine weeks out. Once your job starts, a kitchen takes about four weeks in the shop and two to four days to install. Small built-ins are often finished in three weeks total. We tell you the real date, not the optimistic one.

Yes. We regularly work in Royal Oak, Ferndale, Birmingham, Grosse Pointe, Dearborn, Northville, Plymouth and Ann Arbor. Site measures are free within 35 miles of the shop on Nash Street; beyond that we charge a modest travel fee that we credit back if you hire us.

Yes — 40% to reserve a bench slot and buy material, 40% when the casework leaves the finish booth, and the final 20% after the walkthrough. We accept check, ACH and card. Nothing is due at the first meeting.

Usually. Bring us a salvaged piece of casing or base and we will have shaper knives ground to the profile. We have reproduced profiles from homes built between 1908 and 1961 across Detroit and the inner-ring suburbs.

Kiln-dried white oak (plain and rift), red oak, hard maple, poplar for paint grade, black walnut, cherry and ash. Anything else — sapele, hickory, reclaimed heart pine — we source through two Michigan yards, usually within a week.

We spray low-VOC water-based and conversion finishes in a dedicated booth, and everything is fully cured before it reaches your house. That means no solvent smell in the rooms your family sleeps in.

Five years on workmanship and joinery, plus the manufacturer warranty on hardware (Blum drawer runners and hinges carry a limited lifetime warranty). Details are on our Warranty page.

Often we prefer it. We read shop-ready drawings, attend site meetings, and coordinate with electricians and countertop fabricators on template day. Trade pricing is available for design firms with three or more projects a year.

Selectively. Dining tables, benches, desks and console pieces that share the language of an installed millwork package. We do not sell one-off furniture through catalogues or online storefronts.