Farmhouse kitchen, Shelburne
Hard maple, inset doors, 38 openings. The floor falls almost two inches over twelve feet and the cabinets had to look as if it did not.
DWG 04 / Kitchen, Shelburne / 1:20 · 2024
Burlington, Vermont · Est. 2008
Furniture that outlasts the house it is built for.
Eight woodworkers, one shop on Pine Street. Kitchens, libraries, stair parts and tables, cut from Vermont hardwoods that spent a year air-drying before they reached our rack.
DWG 01 / Through dovetail, 3/4 in hard maple / Slope 1:6
01 / The shop
88 Pine Street
Showroom: front 600 sq ft
Shop: everything behind it
A cabinet should be repaired once a century, not replaced once a decade.
William Trask learned the trade in a traditional shop where drawers were dovetailed by hand and the glue came out of a pot. In 2008 he rented half of an old machine shop on Pine Street and built a kitchen for Anneliese Brandt’s parents on borrowed clamps. Anneliese, who draws our jobs and runs the schedule, never left.
The shop now fills the whole building. Eight of us work at the benches, two installers carry the finished work out the door, and we take on about twenty jobs a year. That is fewer than we could sell and exactly as many as we can build properly.
02 / By the numbers
340kitchens and built-ins since 2008, from a single bookcase to a whole-house kitchen and mudroom
16weeks, average, from deposit to the day the installers leave
11species in the lumber rack at any given time, most of them from within 60 miles
2shop dogs, Dado and Biscuit, both barred from the finish room
03 / What we build
Five kinds of work, one way of doing it.
- 01Kitchens and pantriesInset or overlay, 8 to 40 doors, solid-wood drawer boxes
- 02Libraries and built-insFloor to ceiling, scribed to plaster that is not square
- 03Stair partsNewels, balusters, treads and rails, templated on site
- 04Tables and chairsA small line, ordered by the piece, built between jobs
- 05Mudrooms and nurseriesBenches, cubbies, cribs and dressers for rooms that get hard use
04 / Recent work
Six jobs from the binder
Mudroom, Stowe
White oak bench and six cubbies for a family of six, built over a floor drain that would not move.
DWG 17 / Mudroom, Stowe / 1:10 · 2025
Library wall, Montpelier
Black cherry, eleven feet wide, under a ceiling that bows an inch.
DWG 11 / Library, Montpelier / 1:25 · 2023
Also in the binder: a restaurant table, a Victorian staircase and a nursery set.
05 / Lead time
16 weeks
That is our average from deposit to the last drawer being checked on site. It runs from 14 weeks for a bookcase to 22 for a kitchen with a mudroom attached. We would sooner tell you that now than apologise in week twelve.
Seven stages, in order: consultation, drawings, deposit, milling, joinery, finish, install. Each has its own weeks and its own note on the process page.
06 / From the bench
Notes from the shop
Hide glue in a cold shop
Why a glue pot stays on the stove in the joinery room, and what we do on the mornings the building drops under 60 degrees.
Butternut is back, briefly
A windthrown tree near Bristol gave us 400 board feet. It will be gone by Christmas, and so will the quote for it.
How we draw a kitchen
Plan, elevations and one full-size section on paper before anything is cut, and why the paper still matters.
07 / Visit
Come and put your hand on a drawer.
The showroom is the front 600 square feet of the shop. Estimates are by appointment, usually an hour and a half, and Ruth Delacroix will ask what you are trying to fix before she asks what you want to build.
88 Pine Street
Burlington, VT 05401
+1 (802) 555-0187
[email protected]
Burlington, VT 05401
+1 (802) 555-0187
[email protected]
Tue–Fri 9 am to 4 pm
First Saturday of the month, 10 am to 2 pm
Closed the last two weeks of July
Two parking spaces behind the building; deliveries use the rear door.