From the Coachella Valley and Beyond: Twelve Projects
Past work: the projects behind the standard, most from a decade in California’s Coachella Valley, before the move home to Knoxville. 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 kitchenShop-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.
BeforeAfter
Before and after: the same garage, from moving boxes to a finished gym floor.
Finished garage gymAnother project at the same home.Hexagon acoustic wallMirror 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.
Light-oak islandBlack 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.
Multi-panel glass doorsVaulted 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 wave headerShaping the wave by hand
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.
Stair wall gridLiving room canvas and round piecesTeal accent wall with canvasGeometric shelf over a consoleHexagon wall shelfFramed pieces around an entry
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.
Square tile layout on the laptopTile layout in progress
Coachella Valley, CA
Equipment troubleshooting
Hydrotherapy Spa Bed Repair at a Luxury Spa in Indian Wells
A high-end treatment bed at a working spa needed repair. We opened the panels, traced the pump, control boxes and wiring, and got its color-changing lights cycling green, purple and red again.
Spa bed lights cycling againLit in purple
Coachella Valley, CA
Bench work
Custom Guitar Rewire
Not every job is a house. A cherry-sunburst Les Paul-style guitar came apart on the bench (neck, body, routed cavities) and got fresh pots and wiring in the control cavity before going back together. The same patience we bring to a cabinet joint, at guitar scale.
Guitar on the benchNew pots and wiring
Coachella Valley, CA
Engineering background
Electron Microscopy
Part of my background is engineering. I worked as an electrical engineer on electron microscopes, helping service STEM and SEM instruments with my father’s business, MicroFix Service. Work on these instruments is careful and methodical: understand the system, find the real fault, and put everything back exactly right. That habit comes with me to every job, whether it’s a bench repair, a home network or a cabinet that has to fit just so.
Instrument on its standInside the chamberOn the job
Networking
Network Setup & System Configuration
On one past job, the network side meant patching into the modem/router with ethernet runs and setting up the recorder's network settings on a monitor.
Modem/router with ethernetRecorder network settings
Coachella Valley, CA
Past work · 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. This is shown as past work only; security camera installs are not currently offered.
