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BUILT-INS

Part of the room.

Built-ins drawn around walls, openings and proportions already in the house.

Permanent pieces made to read as part of the architecture.

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BUILT INTO PLACE

It doesn’t move.

A built-in has no other room to go to.

Its dimensions, lines and details come from the architecture around it.

WALLOPENINGPROPORTION

Navy built-in shelving beside an oak library ladder

THE WORK

Built around the walls.

Built-ins take different forms because the rooms around them do.

Open shelving in a built-in cabinet against a patterned stone back panel

SHELVING

Fitted, not placed.

Storage and display fitted into the architecture instead of placed in front of it.

Wall-to-wall built-in library in painted blue-grey cabinetry, open shelves above shaker base doors

PANELS

A wall with structure.

Millwork that gives a wall structure, depth and continuity.

Built-in pantry cabinet in green painted millwork with glass doors and open shelving, fitted between two walls

FITTED FURNITURE

Made to stay in the room.

Permanent pieces shaped around the room and the way it needs to work.

THE FIT

The edges matter.

Walls are not drawings. Corners move. Openings differ. Old houses carry their own proportions.

The work has to meet what is actually there.

  • WALLS
  • CORNERS
  • OPENINGS
  • TRIM
  • PROPORTION
Grid wall panel millwork meeting at the corners
Glass cabinet door with divided panes, meeting the wall and the ceiling molding
Close view where the staircase meets fitted panel millwork at a landing
Fitted range hood and glass-front cabinet meeting the crown molding
Open shelving in a built-in cabinet against a patterned stone back panel

WHERE THE WORK MEETS THE HOUSE

SELECTED WORK

Made into the house.

A selection of built-ins and fitted millwork completed in Massachusetts.

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THE PROCESS

Start with what’s there.

We begin with the space, what needs to live there and how the room is already built.

From there, the piece takes shape around the house.

Wall-to-wall built-in library in painted blue-grey cabinetry, open shelves above shaker base doors

  1. 01 ◆

    Room

    Understand the wall, opening and proportions around the work.

  2. 02 ◆

    Use

    Define what the piece needs to hold, organize or support.

  3. 03 ◆

    Shape

    The work is developed around both the room and its use.

  4. 04 ◆

    Fit

    The finished piece takes its place in the architecture.

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EXISTING ARCHITECTURE

Work with what remains.

Many rooms already have a language before new millwork enters them.

Proportion, trim, openings and existing details give the new work something to answer to.

Kitchen with white shaker cabinetry, a stone-top island and a fitted wine cabinet
White custom kitchen cabinetry with a marble-top island, paneled refrigerator surround and a fitted range hood ROOM TO ROOM Some work starts inside. When storage and function move from the wall into kitchens, bathrooms and closets, the work becomes custom cabinetry. EXPLORE CABINETRY Straight staircase with a white paneled newel post, turned balusters and a stained oak handrail, rising along raised panel wainscoting ANOTHER FIXED LINE The stair stays too. Fine staircase work carries the same relationship with architecture: permanent, fitted and seen every day. EXPLORE STAIRCASES

BUILT-INS ◆ MASSACHUSETTS

What should live there?

Planning built-ins or fitted millwork in Massachusetts?

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White kitchen cabinetry with a fitted hood surround, range and wall ovens