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Longer pieces on how the work gets made. Written in the shop, between jobs, by the people holding the tools. We publish when we have something worth saying rather than on a schedule.

Latest From Sketch to Install: Anatomy of a Custom Closet
Behind the Process6 min read14 March 2026

From Sketch to Install: Anatomy of a Custom Closet

Every project starts as a pencil line on graph paper. This is what happens in the eleven weeks between that line and the morning we hang the doors.

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