This blog features pictures and information from a recent design, build, and installation of built-in cabinetry, for a client in Reston, VA.
Built-In Cabinetry Entertainment Center
This custom set of built-in cabinets is 14' wide and almost 10' tall, and was custom painted by R.K.Morris Painting Company.
Some of the features of this built-in cabinetry project include: The casework of the cabinets is solid 3/4" maple veneer plywood with poplar wood facings (stiles & rails), the doors are an 1/2" overlay design using reverse flat recessed panels, concealed soft closing "Blum" brand hinges & all solid maple wood construction. This homeowner wanted to have glass shelves in the open bookcase sections, that will get accent lighting. All the wood shelves in the storage sections are adjustable. This built-in project has 5" wide stiles with 3" fluted pilasters on both the upper cabinetry and the base cabinetry, with plinth blocks and rosettes. This client wanted the rosettes to be plain with no circular cutouts. The straight valances on the upper bookcases have applied panels... with the center valance having an integrated wood vent to accommodate an existing AC vent. This built-in entertainment center has a 65" wide space for the television screen. This cabinetry features recessed side panels in both the upper and lower cabinetry on the exposed right side.
This blog entry features a built-in cabinetry project we just completed awhile back for a Fairfax, VA homeowner. These custom bookcases and cabinetry were designed, fabricated, and installed by Mitre Contracting, Inc.
Some of the features of these painted built-ins include:
Solid 3/4" maple veneer plywood casework
Solid poplar wood facings (stiles & rails)
Recessed paneled sides throughout
Recessed paneled doors, overlay design, all maple construction
Adjustable shelves throughout with 1.5" beaded front edgings
File drawers of 5/8" dovetailed finished maple on 200lb. tracks
Straight valances and plain stiles, both with cabinet beading details
Concealed "Blum" brand clip on adjustable hinges
These built-ins and bookcases were hand painted after the installation by R.K.M. Painting Company.
The built-in counter tops are made from 3/4" maple veneer plywood with 1.5" wood edgings with a bead profile. The built-in base cabinetry storage units are a flush toekick design wrapped with a baseboard that matches the baseboard in the home. See the picture below for a close up view of the built-in cabinetry base unit's recessed paneled sides.
This next picture shows the custom built-in file drawers, showing the dovetailed construction and the 200 lbs full extension slides. These will hold either legal or letter sized files in a lateral position. The drawer boxes are constructed from a solid 5/8" maple and come with a nice lacquered finish. They come with matching all maple recessed panel drawer fronts.
This next picture shows a close up view of the custom built-in cabinetry base unit's interior. This base cabinet comes with one full depth adjustable shelf and overlay solid maple recessed panel doors. These base unit cabinets can also come with inset style doors, raised panels, arched panels...etc. if desired.
The interiors get a couple coats of a clear polyurethane finish. The doors also come with "Blum" brand euro style hinges that clip on style and are fully adjustable.
The next two pictures below show close up views of the upper bookcase shelving units. Here you can see the built-in cabinetry's recessed panel sides, adjustable shelves, plain stiles with cabinet beading, the straight valances and crown moulding at the ceiling.
I originally designed these built-in cabinets with a shelving unit over the seating desk area, but this homeowner wanted to hang some artwork and deleted the middle section of shelves from the original design.
This next picture shows the units right after the installation before they have been painted.
The full height bookcase built-in units feature all adjustable shelves, straight valances, plain stiles, and a flush toe kick design. The bookcases are trimmed out in baseboard and crown moulding that match the homes mouldings.
Please contact us anytime if you would like a free quote on any type of built-in cabinetry project for your home or office. We can design, fabricate and install any type of built-in entertainment centers, office bookcases, office built-in cabinetry with storage, laundry room cubbies with beadboard... etc., etc.
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Here we feature several pictures showing off our finish carpentry we completed for a custom homebuilder in Northern Virginia. We completed this finish carpentry interior trim project in 2014
We start off with custom cased arched openings with fluted & paneled columns, two piece chair railing with shadowbox moulding wainscoting
This finish carpentry interior trim work project was installed for Quaker Custom Homes in Northern Virginia. All the mouldings & millwork was provided by Accent Millwork. You can see more pictures of this custom home on Quaker Homes facebook page HERE ... they are a lot better quality than mine are!
The baseboards are WM-163E fjp, The windows are trimmed out with wood jambs, wood sills and WM-445 fjp casing. The 2 piece chair railing consist of a LWM-304 backer with a LWM-302 chair rail. The 3 piece crown molding is made up from a WM-49 fjp crown mould on a WM-753 beaded backer with a Wm-167 neck moulding. In the Dining room, Foyer and Hallway we installed a shadowbox panel moulding of LWP-184 under all the chair railing. The custom cased openings are MDF construction with arched headers, fluted above the chair rail and applied panels under the chair to match the shadowbox wainscoting.
The stair railings are an (over-the-post) & (post-to-post) system consisting of 6010 oak railings, 4010PT & 4010MT red oak newel posts, with wrought iron balusters featuring an alternating layout of single baskets and double knuckles in semi-gloss black.
Just a short blog to show some pictures of a custom stair railing installation we completed last year 2014 for Quaker Custom Homes in Northern Virginia. This stair railing features painted boxed newel posts and painted square balusters with a stained oak handrail.
This stair rail installation was part of a whole house interior trim finish caprentry project for a custom built home.
This first picture shows the main staircase looking up from the foyer to the second floor. Here you can see the painted boxed newel posts with square tops and square mouldings, the stained oak 6010 style railings, and the painted 5060 style square balusters.
Custom Craftsman Style Stair Railing
Here is another view looking down to the foyer from the upper hallway:
Upper Hall Stair Railing with painted balusters & newel posts
And yet another view of the upper hallway:
Upper hallway stair railings
Here I have attached several close up pictures showing several different details of this installation
Close up view of stair railing corner with boxed newel posts
All these particular boxed newel posts were custom fabricated for us by Mike Hart out of Springfield, VA. They feature solid wood construction... no veneers over junk filler wood, and a nice square profile on the wrap around mouldings. You can see more of his work and custom turnings and rail fittings over at American Turnings
Starting newel post with upeasing fitting
Curved Overlook Stair Railing
All the newel posts are installed using the "suretight" newel bolting system... a 1/2" x 12" long bolt that gets bolted into the floor joist and then tightened down with a 3/4" wrench. This makes for an exceptionally strong installation.
All the balusters also get bolted into each tread and all the lander plate using a 1/4" x 2" double ended bolt. This proceedure adds time and extra cost to the installation but again it makes for a very strong and time tested install. See these pictures for installation details... CLICK TO ENLARGE
Newel Post Installation
Baluster installation using bolts
We have been installing stair railings for over 30 years, and during that time have tried pretty much every type of installation method we could think of, and this system beats them all hands down. Have been using them for years and years and never had a callback because a newel post came loose.
Very important to check with your contractor to verify how they plan to secure the newel posts and balusters on your stair railings! Those little brackets the big box stores sell for newel post installation are toys compared to using a 12" long 1/2" thick bolt.
This stair railing installation was completed in 2014 in Manassas, VA, in Northern Virginia. Along ,with Mitre doing the stair railing installation we also installed all the other finish carpentry for the house. This included installing all the interior doors and casings, the window sills, aprons and casings, baseboards, crown mouldings, char railings... etc. Mitre also installed all the kitchen and bath cabinetry along with all the hardware installations. All the interior doors and 1st floor windows got entablatures consisting of 1x6 with 1x2 cap and bead moulding.
Please call us anytime if you would like a free estimate for all your finish carpentry needs, or you can fill out our estimate request form here and we will contact you shortly.
In this posting I feature several pictures of a recently completed home where we installed the finish carpentry.
This home was called the "Barn House". The pictures should speak for themselves as to the design style. We installed close to 5000 feet of 1x8 in this home. In this home we also installed all the interior doors, crown mouldings, baseboards, ceiling treatments, wall treatments, 1x8 horizontal wainscot, reclaimed barn wood wainscoting, window seats, banquette seating, window casings and the half walls, columns and beams.
Master Bedroom and Master Bathroom Pictures:
Master Bathroom Pictures:
Stairway Pictures:
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Custom Finish Carpentry in Northern Virginia:
The stairway in this house featured a center wall we wrapped in reclaimed barnwood. The stairway also features custom floating stair treads of reclaimed barn wood with recessed custom lighting. The exterior walls of the stairway got vertical and horizontal 1x8 wall treatments with a accented strip of siding.
PROJECT: Fireplace Mantel (mantle) with concealed storage for speaker bar
This months finish caprentry project includes designing, fabricating and installing a craftsman / shaker style mantel for a Northern Virginia homeowner.
This fireplace mantel was designed and constructed to enclose a sound bar for the flat screen television.
The mantel was designed with flat recessed panels and simple lines to give it a craftsman style look.
The storage compartment has a removable metal screen panel to get access to the space. We also made a solid wood panel that would give you a concealed storage space. The mantel construction is solid wood (poplar) with custom made crown molding and a custom made square bead molding for the removable panels.
The mantel was a little taller than a normal mantel as the fireplace was raised off the floor around eight inches due to a raised hearth that was removed during the remodel.
Here are a couple close up pictures of the mantel showing the crown moulding and showing the removable panels.
Here are a couple picures we took during the installation, showing the unpainted mantel, and also one showing the hidden storage compartment where the homeowner will place the soundbar.
We completed this mantel surround feature this summer of 2013 for a homeowner in Vienna, VA. We designed the look of this fireplace mantel from several mantel inspiration picture ideas they had submitted to us.
Please contact us if you would like us to custom build a fireplace mantel in any design style. Other finish carpentry services we offer to our Northern Virigina customers are: molding installations ( baseboard, chair rail, crown mould, wainscot, panel molding shadowboxes, archways, built-in cabinetry, built-in entertainment centers, built-in bookcases, coffered ceilings, beadboard ceilings, window & door casings, stair railings, bannisters, balustrades, baluster replacements, etc. etc.
Please call us anytime at 703-330-3486, or email us, and let us provide you with a free in home consultation and free no obligation price quote for your next home improvement project. We perform our finish carpenter & interior trim carpentry services for the entire Northern Virginia area and several surrounding counties.
Here we would like to showcase a recent built-in cabinetry project we just completed for a homeowner in Woodbridge, VA. This particular set of built-ins incorporates a pair of wine racks in the base cabinets on the left side. Also included is a single shelf with stem wine glass holders.
These built-in bookcases are nine feet tall, floor to ceiling and each section is almost six feet long. Before the installation of the built-in cabinets, the homeowner had the multimedia cabling run in the walls to the flat screen.
As usual I forgot to get some before pictures, maybe one of these days I will get it right.
OVERALL PICTURE OF NEW BUILT-IN CABINETRY
In this picture you can see both sections of the built-ins flanking either side of the existing fireplace. Each section of bookcases is approximately six feet long by nine feet tall.
Picture showing the wine racks in the base cabinets
Here you can see the removable inserts for wine bottles. These will hold over 80 bottles. The construction is 3/4" birch veneer plywood with poplar wood facings. The base cabinet interiors and racking have been clear coated with 3 coats of a semi-gloss polyurethane finish.
Stem Glass Holder
Here you can see the glass holders attached to one of the adjustable shelves. Also note the beaded shelf edges, beaded stiles, counters with an "ogee" profile and inset doors on the base cabinetry.
Wine Rack Close Up
These are made as inserts, that can be removed. We also supplied the usual shelf for future use if needed.
Built-In Cabinetry
Built-In Cabinetry Specifications:
Casework was all 3/4" birch veneer plywood with poplar wood facings (stiles, rails and valances), plain 2" stiles and straight valances with attached cabinet beading detail. Adjustable 3/4" birch ply shelves with 1.5" poplar wood front edgings with routed bead detail. Counters are 3/4" birch ply with a 1.5" poplar wood edgings with a routed "ogee" profile. Inset true raised panel doors with maple frames, mdf raised panels with euro style concealed hinges and brushed nickel cabinet door pulls. The base cabinet interiors got 3 coats of a semi-gloss polyurethane, along with the wine racking, the rest got primed and painted in a semi-gloss latex paint that matched the existing trim.
Please give us a call or email us anytime to ask us about custom building a set of built-ins for your home or office. We offer free in home estimates with no pressure or obligation.
This posting features a small project we completed recently for a homeowner in Northern Virginia.
This custom cased opening features fluted square columns and an arched header.
These archways can be made to fit practically any existing drywalled opening. The fluted columns wrap around the drywall opening. These can be custom made to fit any thickness wall, any height & width opening.
BEFORE PICTURE
Existing drywall opening between living room & dining room
AFTER PICTURES
Custom Cased Opening being installed
Columns with fluted detail over chair rail & applied panels
Dining room picture showing custom archway, a one piece chair rail and panel moulding shadowbox wainscoting
DRAWING
A drawing of a similar archway
Please call us anytime 703-330-3486, or email us, and let us provide you with a free in home consultation and free no obligation price quote for your next home improvement project. We service the entire Northern Virginia area and all the surrounding counties.
In this blog we show a few pictures of a small railing and stair tread replacement project we completed awhile back.
The homeowner had another contractor in to finish the basement, and you can see the final outcome of the stairway they were left with. It's really hard to believe that someone would actually finish a basement and leave anything even close to this type of workmanship behind.
BEFORE PICTURES:
AFTER PICTURES:
New oak stair treads & oak landing
New radiused landings with bullnose starter step & volutes
Looking down the stairway at the new oak treads and railings
New foyer oak railings
This stairway renovation includes custom newel posts made to match the balusters. These were custom fabricated by Mike Hart owner of, IKCO Construction, Inc. in Franconia, VA.
Scope of work: demo existing iron railings, repairing stairway framing, cutting back existing marble flooring in foyer for new oak landers, supplying custom made solid 5/4" oak stair treads oak brackets and oak risers. Also we had Mike Hart, custom make the radius oak lander & risers for the landing. We also installed oak flooring at the landing and an over the post oak rail system. This railing included full volutes, over the post up easings and "s" fittings. The oak railing is 6010 design, the oak balusters are 5040 design, newel posts custom designed to match balusters. Then we had the whole system and flooring professionally sanded, stained and finished in a golden oak color. There is still a little painting to be done around the inside and outside stair stringers and ogee mouldings.
Please call or email us anytime if you would like us to replace your old creaky stairs and outdated railings. We will come by, discuss your projects, make sugesstions, and provide a free price quote.
Fill out our CONTACT FORM for your free quote on a new stairway, new stair treads, new railings, or any moulding, cabinetry or remodeling you may need.
