Project location: Hub Raleigh

Hub Raleigh is a co-working space for startups that keep ethics and responsibility to the planet as a core value. They were just getting settled when we installed this cabinet run for them in their break and welcome area.

At the time, we were eyeing a spot out at Tech Shop RDU for office space, but now that it’s shuttered the doors, Hub Raleigh might be an option for us. Until then, here’s our handiwork.

This one we put in a dentist’s office. We do not claim responsibility for the hideous shade of wallpaper.

Cabs are high gloss green & white, single basin farm sink. Behold!

Fun with details! Aloft Hotel, Asheville NC

Who says you don’t need math in real life?

Clockwise from top: oak shaker (unfinished), flat walnut, bamboo, flat teak.

Thanks to John @ Semihandmade for the awesome box of door samples! They’re really gorgeous. These doors will work beautifully with our Besh cabinet line and IKEA kitchen cabs.

Wheee!

The biggest tools we get to use in kitchen design & remodeling (I’m not counting ladders) are things like these:

Stick Time!

I’ve always wanted to operate the bigger cousins of the above, so I toured the Caterpillar plant not far from here & at the end of the factory walk, we got some ‘Stick Time’ . Yup. Hauling rocks around with this guy:

And digging some holes & filling them back up with this guy:

NAWIC

I should mention that this day-long treat was courtesy of an invite from the Greenville NC chapter of NAWIC (Nat’l Assn of Women in Construction).    Had fun, ladies!

Getting ready to remodel? Read this.

This excellent & accurate article up on Houzz by Anne Higuera is about the best preparation I’ve seen for what to realistically expect when you remodel your house while living in it.

It includes what I call the 3 Biggies:

• Dust
• Change orders
• Delays

Yesterday’s gem:

“Then you look in this drawer and it’s like, Who flung dung?”

 

Reclaimed, weathered wood is perfect for the backside of an island or peninsula! It’s a surface that gets kicked a lot, so it’d stand up to it. It’s a natural & textured material that compliments smoother modern touches like slab doors & countertops.

I can’t wait to use this idea on a project!