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Past craft work

A decade of carpentry and remodeling in the Coachella Valley.

From the Coachella Valley: past craft work

Before the focus on residential tech, this was the work behind the standard: carpentry, cabinetry, millwork and remodels. Client names and addresses are always kept private.

Kitchen & carpentry

A Coachella Valley Kitchen Refresh & Hallway Reframe

It started in the shop: hardwood pieces shaped on the bench and a wooden box built on a Kreg table before a single cabinet came off the wall. With the work zone sealed in plastic to keep dust out of a lived-in home, the kitchen became a bright white space: grey marble counter, subway-tile backsplash, open floating shelves, black bar pulls, a built-in microwave drawer, and a softly curved counter end. Every drawer got organizers. Then we moved down the hall, reframing doorways with new bucks and headers and numbering each floor tile before it was laid so the pattern landed right.

Finished white kitchen with grey marble counters, open shelves and black bar pulls
Finished white kitchen
Shop-built wooden box on the bench before the kitchen work began
Shop-built box on the Kreg table

Coachella Valley, CA

Garage & whole home

The Garage That Became a Gym, Plus Whole-Home Upgrades

A bare concrete garage stacked with boxes became a home gym: interlocking orange-and-grey floor tiles, a black cabinet wall, a custom cabinet run, and hexagonal acoustic panels planned on screen, dry-fitted, then installed around a mirror and whiteboard. Over the same stretch the home also got a teal accent wall, a modern stair wall, a laser-leveled outdoor patio TV, a wood-look tile bathroom with floating shelves and frameless glass, and custom entry cubbies and hallway shelving.

After: finished garage floor with an orange and grey tile border
Before: bare concrete garage stacked with moving boxes
BeforeAfter
Before and after: the same garage, from moving boxes to a finished gym floor.
Finished garage gym seen from the driveway: orange and grey tile floor, hexagon acoustic wall and cabinets
Finished garage gym
Upper balcony with modern railing on a desert home
Another project at the same home.
Hexagon acoustic panel wall in teal, orange and black around a mirror opening
Hexagon acoustic wall
Wall mirror framed by teal, orange and black hexagon acoustic panels
Mirror set into the acoustic wall

Coachella Valley, CA

Fine cabinetry

Custom Cabinetry in a Coachella Valley Desert Estate

In a curved modern home in a gated community, we installed a light-oak island with black interiors and tops, drawer stacks, a pull-out bin, open shelving, and a sink base plumbed for a disposal. High-end homes leave no room for gaps or scratches, so the work was measured and fitted with care.

Cabinet installer fitting the kitchen island
Light-oak island
Light-oak cabinet with black interior and pull-out
Black interior and pull-out

Coachella Valley, CA

Structural & glass

Opening Up a Desert-Modern Home

The goal was light and flow. We shored up the structure, cut open exterior walls, pulled the old sliders, and set big new headers for multi-panel glass doors that open onto the lawn. Inside, a vaulted great room was framed with arched windows and a built-in fireplace and media niche; outside, scaffolding went up for new stucco on the entry. A cedar sauna and shop-built panels rounded it out. Structural work like this is where we bring in trusted specialists.

White desert-modern home with new glass doors opening onto the lawn
Multi-panel glass doors
New framing and headers for a wall of glass doors
Vaulted great room framing

Coachella Valley, CA

Custom millwork

Hand-Shaped Wave Headers to Match Existing Art

A poolside home had a one-of-a-kind white wave-relief header, and the owners wanted more of it over new windows and doors. There's no catalog for that, so we shaped it by hand: a flap disc on a grinder working a flowing wave into long boards, then sealing and finishing them to blend with the original under the dark beams and tan stucco.

Finished white wave-relief header above a door
Finished wave header
Hand-shaped wave pattern carved into a header board
Shaping the wave by hand

Coachella Valley, CA

Planning & layout

Designing the Garage Floor Before Laying It

Before a single tile went down in the garage, the orange-and-grey hexagon pattern was laid out digitally on a laptop, so the layout was settled on screen first.

Orange and grey floor tile pattern planned on a laptop
Square tile layout on the laptop
Alternate checkerboard tile layout on screen
Tile layout in progress

Coachella Valley, CA

Art & installation

Hanging Art Installations

Some walls take more than a nail and a level. These were multi-piece art installations hung precisely: a grid of round pieces climbing a two-story stair wall, a large canvas and a set of round pieces over a living-room seating group, geometric wall shelves centered over furniture, and small framed pieces arranged around an entry. Each layout is planned before anything goes on the wall so the spacing stays even and every piece sits level.

Grid of round wall art pieces climbing a two-story stair wall
Stair wall grid
Living room with a large canvas and round wall pieces hung over the seating
Living room canvas and round pieces
Living room with a teal accent wall and a large canvas hung over the fireplace side
Teal accent wall with canvas
Geometric wood wall shelf centered above a console with art pieces
Geometric shelf over a console
Black hexagon wall shelf hung level on a white wall
Hexagon wall shelf
Entry wall with small framed pieces arranged around a door
Framed pieces around an entry
Past work · California · not currently offered

Lorex Security Camera System Install

A Lorex wired camera system: bullet cameras mounted under ceiling ledges and on outdoor pergola beams, with home-run cabling back to the recorder and the recorder patched into the modem/router.

Lorex bullet camera on a wall mount
Lorex camera on mount
Security camera mounted on an outdoor pergola beam
Pergola cameras

Coachella Valley, CA

Also available

General handyman services we have offered: drywall repair, painting, faucets and minor plumbing, doors and trim, decks and fences, furniture assembly, pressure washing, punch lists and finish updates. Text a photo to ask. Security camera work shown here is past work only and is not currently offered.