While at the clients house to deliver a smaller project, we got to looking at ways to fill the odd space to the left of the fireplace (think Resoration Hardware/Arhaus/Pottery Barn bookshelving). I mentioned Tekton could build in cabinets, and unbeknownst to me, it turned out a built in cost less.
The client had previously bought a couple slabs of western red cedar that never got used and were left neglected. They had seen the vibrance of them at the mill, and wanted to find a way to use them after years of sitting in the shed. We milled them down, flattened them, and turned them into the live edge butcher block counter that anchors the entire built-in. The natural edge was preserved and the character of the wood — knots, grain variation, the history of it — became the centerpiece of the built-in.
Above the counter, walnut floating shelves carry the warmth of the cedar upward. Walnut and cedar don’t always get paired together but in this space, against this wall, they work.
This is what custom means. Not picking from a catalog, but taking what someone already has and making it into something they’ll keep forever.
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