White desert-modern home with new glass doors opening onto the lawn
Hillsides LLC · Handyman & Craft · Knoxville, TN

Tennessee roots. California standards.Knoxville handyman & craft.

Born and raised in Tennessee, sharpened by 10 years of high-end handyman work in California's Coachella Valley, and now back home serving Knoxville.

  • Tennessee born and raised
  • 10 years of high-end handyman work
  • Clear plans and clean job sites
  • Shows up when he said he would
  • Call, text or email; text a photo for a quick quote

Services in Knoxville

Typical projects, big and small. Not sure if your job fits? Just ask.

Drywall Repair

Holes, cracks, water damage, and seamless texture matching.

Interior & Exterior Painting

Clean lines, proper prep, low-VOC options.

Caulk, Grout & Weatherstripping

Fresh caulk lines, grout repair, drafty doors sealed.

Faucets & Minor Plumbing

Faucets, disposals, toilets, small leak repairs.

Doors & Trim

Hanging, adjusting, hardware, baseboard and casing.

TV & Shelf Mounting

Secure mounting with tidy cable management.

Decks & Fences

Repairs, boards, gates, staining and sealing.

Art, Mirrors & Shelving

Planned layouts, hung level and evenly spaced.

Furniture Assembly

Flat-pack furniture, beds, desks, storage.

Pressure Washing

Driveways, decks, siding, patios.

Punch Lists & Move-In Fixes

That list of small jobs for your new house, done in one visit.

Modern Finishes & Updates

Hardware, backsplash and paint updates for a clean, current look.

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Born in Tennessee. Trained in the desert. Back home in Knoxville.

I'm Tennessee born and raised. I spent my first 30 years here, learning to fix what was broken and build what was needed, the way East Tennessee does it.

Then I spent ten years in California's Coachella Valley working as a handyman in Palm Springs, Indian Wells and the towns around them. I set custom cabinetry in a high-end estate, hand-shaped wave headers to match a home's one-of-a-kind artwork, opened up a desert-modern house with new structural headers and walls of glass, turned a cluttered garage into a full gym, repaired a luxury spa's hydrotherapy bed, and set up home networks. Desert homes taught me California standards: precision with stucco, heat and glass, and clients who expect it done right.

Now I'm back home in Knoxville, bringing both together: Tennessee roots and a decade of California craft. If you've moved here from California, you'll recognize the standard. If you're from here, you'll know you're working with one of your own.

More about Hillsides LLC

The Sunsphere in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, framed by autumn treesHome: Knoxville, TN
Photo: “Sunsphere in Autumn” by David Ratledge, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized with a green tint.

Featured work

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Finished white kitchen with grey marble counters, open shelves and black bar pulls
Finished white kitchen
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.

Coachella Valley, CA

Cabinet installer fitting the kitchen island
Light-oak island
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.

Coachella Valley, CA

Finished white wave-relief header above a door
Finished wave header
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.

Coachella Valley, CA

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How it works

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  3. The work gets done right and the site is left clean

Service areas

Based in Knoxville and serving nearby communities:

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