Project Description
A Working Island, Built In-House
This island runs nearly the full length of the kitchen: prep space along one side, seating at the end, and storage the whole way down.
Our crew built and installed the cabinetry, the paneling, and the trim that ties it into the rest of the house. The casework came out of our own shop.
The countertop is honed soapstone, set in slabs with tight seams and an eased edge. The doors are frame-and-panel with V-groove centers, hung inset so the faces sit flush with the frames. The drawer bank graduates in depth toward the floor.
The end panel and the back are paneled to match, so the island reads as a single piece of furniture from every side, not a run of boxes with one finished face. The butcher block drops flush into the stone. The outlets are let into the paneling where they are reachable but out of the way.
None of that is complicated on its own. It comes down to getting the layout right before anything is cut, then holding the reveals consistent across the whole length of the casework.
Six of our eight employees have been together for more than a decade, four of them for two decades. That is the reason work like this goes in without drama. The same hands have been building it, and each other’s work, for years.
