Cabinetry part of a full remodel by Otto Custom Craftsman, finishing a basement as an office-cum-bar. We advised changes to the original bar design: replacing a vertical wine fridge with horizontal under-counter units, and nixing a taller pantry cabinet to allow for a continuous, unbroken top along the entire run.

To keep things as sleek and continuous as possible, we constructed a door with false drawer and door fronts for the kegerator to match the adjacent sink facings.

Originally slated for painted tops, we pushed for walnut tops to contrast and compliment the dark cabinet color and polished brass hardware.

For the desk wrapping the corner, a giant "stepped" half-lap joint is drawbored with turned walnut pegs.

Tops are finished with conversion varnish.

A botched remodel was completely remodeled ("threemodeled") after being abdicated by the architect; the upside was a great deal of creative freedom to redesign the trim and cabinetry.

The previous work was so poor that correcting much of it presented some interesting challenges—structural and aesthetic—but also created opportunities to turn defects and eccentricities into organic, stylish focal points redounding to a warm, cohesive space.
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Originally finished with drywall, the bay window bump-out was so badly (and strangely) framed—so far out of level and plumb—that short of removing the window and reframing the entire wall, attempting to simply replace the drywall was a deeply unappetizing prospect, with a dubious result; instead, a plywood carcass received applied mouldings and faux paneling, concealing most of the eccentricities around the bump-out, window and adjacent walls.
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The corner bookcase was designed as an eye-catching and functional use of what had been a hastily made drywall bump-out, resulting in a tremendous amount of dead space behind an otherwise garish and capricious intrusion into the room. Rather than simply putting an errant cabinet door on an otherwise inexplicable cavity in the drywall as was done previously, we turned the entire area into a bookcase, with adjustable shelves on traditional "sawtooth" standards and applied mouldings and faux-paneling to match the bay window.

Box-joined drawer boxes are hard maple/shop-built; all doors are poplar, built on site.

Hardware from deVOL.