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Finish carpentry, photographed.

Cabinetry, trim and shop-built pieces, fitted in houses from Goleta to Carpinteria.

Santa Barbara South Coast

Woodwork through a Spanish-style house

Tom built the woodwork through this house above the ocean: beams and plank ceilings, arched doors and windows, the kitchen cabinets, the mantels and the bath vanity. One hand in every room, which is why it reads as one house.

Ceiling beams and coffered ceilings · Door installation · Custom cabinetry

A living room with exposed wood beams, a plank ceiling, a wood mantel and arched wood-framed glass doors open to an ocean terrace — Beams, plank ceiling and arched doors to the terrace

A kitchen with stained wood frame-and-panel cabinets, wood-cased windows and a marble island — The kitchen

Tall wood-framed glass doors standing open between a beamed living room and a tiled terrace — Doors open to the terrace

A dining room with exposed beams, a wood mantel shelf and wood-framed glass doors facing the ocean — The dining room: beams, mantel and doors

Exposed wood beams and a plank ceiling above white plaster walls with arched openings — The beamed ceiling

A wood vanity with drawers and doors under a tiled counter with two basins, and wood-framed mirrors above — The bath vanity

Santa Barbara South Coast

Oak cabinetry through a new Spanish-style house

Cabinetry for a whole new house: a pale oak kitchen with a paneled hood, floor-to-ceiling storage in the hall and laundry, a dark wood bar with glass doors, a painted console cabinet, painted cubbies, and paneled wood doors.

Custom cabinetry · Built-ins · Door installation

A kitchen with pale oak frame-and-panel cabinets, a paneled hood, glass-fronted wall cabinets and a white stone island — The kitchen

A floor-to-ceiling pale oak cabinet with four tall doors and four upper doors, fitted into a hall alcove — Hall storage, floor to ceiling

Tall pale oak cabinet doors with long pulls, built to the ceiling — Tall cabinets in the laundry

Pale oak laundry cabinets around a stacked washer and dryer — The laundry

A dark wood bar cabinet with glass-fronted upper doors and drawers below, beside a stone fireplace — The bar: dark wood and glass doors

A low dark green painted cabinet with four paneled doors fitted into an alcove — A painted console cabinet

Santa Barbara South Coast

Painted cabinetry and closets through a remodeled house

Finish work through a whole remodel: a kitchen with sage-green base cabinets and white uppers, a pantry nook with open shelves over a wood counter, a painted bath vanity, closets fitted with shelves and hanging rods, and a stair with new wood treads.

Custom cabinetry · Custom closets · Custom shelving

A long kitchen run of sage-green Shaker base cabinets with brass pulls under a white counter, and white wall cabinets — The kitchen: sage base cabinets, white uppers

A nook with white open shelves above a wood counter and sage-green open base cabinets — The pantry nook

A cream painted Shaker vanity with brass pulls under a green stone top — The bath vanity

A painted white closet with shelves and hanging rods on three walls — A closet: shelves and hanging rods

A narrow walk-in closet fitted with white shelves and double hanging rods on both sides — A walk-in closet

A stair with new light wood treads, white risers and a wall-mounted handrail — New wood treads on the stair

Santa Barbara South Coast

Cabinetry in a log house

Tom built the knotty wood cabinetry and trim for this log house: a bookcase wall built between peeled log posts, a bar and desk with glass-fronted cabinets, bath vanities, a loft railing, mantels and wainscot.

Built-ins · Custom cabinetry · Bathroom vanities

A wall of knotty wood bookcases and base cabinets fitted between peeled log posts — The bookcase wall, built between log posts

Knotty wood cabinets with glass-fronted doors above a granite bar and a built-in desk — The bar and desk

A knotty wood bath vanity with drawers and a tall linen tower beside it — Bath vanity and linen tower

A log-walled living room with a plank ceiling, wood-cased doors and a kitchen of knotty wood cabinets beyond — The living room, toward the kitchen

A bedroom with a log mantel over a stone fireplace, wood wainscoting and a plank ceiling — A bedroom: log mantel and wainscot

A loft game room with a wood railing of square balusters and a plank ceiling — The loft and its railing

Santa Barbara

A walnut refrigerator and wine wall

Walnut panels made to cover the refrigerator and frame a wine column, so the appliances read as one piece of furniture. The same house has a stained vanity and linen cabinet in the bath.

Custom cabinetry · Built-ins · Bathroom vanities

A tall walnut cabinet wall with frame-and-panel doors and brass pulls, beside a range under a plaster hood — The walnut wall beside the range and plaster hood

Floor-to-ceiling walnut frame-and-panel doors with long brass pulls beside a glass-fronted wine column — Panel doors and the wine column

A dark stained wood vanity with drawers under a marble top, and a matching tall linen cabinet — The bath: vanity and linen cabinet

Santa Barbara South Coast

Cabinetry, a stair and a library in a traditional house

Tom built the woodwork through this traditional house: a kitchen in warm wood with glass-fronted cabinets and a hanging pot rack, a butler’s pantry, a painted stair with a turned-baluster railing, a wall of library bookcases around a window, and a bath vanity.

Custom cabinetry · Stair railings and treads · Built-ins

A large kitchen with warm wood cabinets, a tiled island and a wood pot rack hanging above it — The kitchen

Warm wood wall cabinets with glass doors beside a range and hood — Glass-fronted cabinets by the range

A stair with wood treads and a white railing of turned balusters rising to a gallery — The stair and its railing

Floor-to-ceiling wood bookcases built around a window, full of books — Library bookcases around the window

A butler’s pantry with glass-fronted wood cabinets, a small sink and drawers — The butler’s pantry

A long wood bath vanity with drawers and a dressing table section under a wide mirror — The bath vanity

Santa Barbara

A painted Shaker kitchen

Blue-gray Shaker cabinets on three walls and an island, with a full-height pantry wall built around the refrigerator. Behind the pantry doors: plywood boxes, pull-out trays and adjustable shelves.

Custom cabinetry · Custom shelving · Hardware installation

A kitchen with blue-gray Shaker cabinets, black stone counters, black pulls and an oak floor — The sink run and island

A full-height wall of blue-gray Shaker cabinets surrounding a stainless refrigerator — The pantry wall, built around the refrigerator

Blue-gray Shaker base and wall cabinets on either side of a stainless range and hood — The range wall

An open pantry cabinet showing five plywood pull-out trays on the left and adjustable shelves on the right — Inside the pantry: pull-out trays and shelves

Santa Barbara South Coast

A flat-panel oak kitchen

Pale oak flat-panel cabinets with a dark island, panels made to cover the refrigerator, and one long floating shelf over the bar. On flat doors the grain and the gaps are the whole design, so both have to line up.

Custom cabinetry · Custom shelving · Hardware installation

A kitchen with pale oak flat-panel cabinets, marble counters, a dark wood island and a long floating oak shelf — The island and bar wall

Pale oak flat-panel cabinets around a range and hood, with a refrigerator hidden behind matching oak panels — The range wall, with the refrigerator behind oak panels

Santa Barbara South Coast

A maple dining table with a chevron top

A dining table built in the shop. The top is laid in a chevron pattern: angled boards that meet along the center line and at one point in the middle, inside a mitered border. Every board is cut, numbered and dry-fitted before any glue.

Custom furniture and pieces

A large maple dining table with a chevron-pattern top on square legs — The finished table

The corner of a maple table showing the mitered border around a chevron top, the apron and a square leg — The corner: border, apron and leg

A maple tabletop with boards laid in a chevron pattern meeting along the center line — The top, along its length

Maple boards laid out in a chevron pattern on a workbench — Laid out in the shop, before glue

Angled maple boards meeting at a single center point, each numbered in pencil — Where the boards meet, numbered in pencil

The underside of a table showing a leg fixed to the aprons with wooden corner blocks — Underneath: the leg and its corner blocks

Santa Barbara South Coast

A maple window seat and entry bench

A window seat built wall to wall under a picture window, with deep drawers and a divided tray, and a bench with a shelf fitted into the alcove by the front door. Photographed in bare maple, before finishing.

Built-ins · Custom furniture and pieces · Custom shelving

A maple window seat under a large window, with a deep drawer and a divided tray pulled open — The window seat, drawers open

A long maple window seat with frame-and-panel drawer fronts fitted between two walls — Fitted wall to wall

A maple storage bench with two panel doors and a shelf above, fitted into an alcove beside a front door — The entry alcove: bench and shelf

The entry bench with its doors open, showing a shelf and concealed hinges — The bench open: a shelf inside

Santa Barbara South Coast

Flat-panel cabinetry through a new house

Flat-panel cabinets for a whole house, photographed during installation, before the countertops: kitchen and island, a pantry of fitted shelves, the laundry, and a floating vanity hung from the wall.

Custom cabinetry · Custom shelving · Bathroom vanities

Light oak flat-panel cabinets with an oven tower, beside an open pantry of fitted corner shelves — The oven wall, and the pantry beside it

A dark flat-panel kitchen island and light oak wall cabinets, with plywood tops awaiting stone — The island and range wall, before countertops

A long run of pale flat-panel drawers and wall cabinets in a laundry room — The laundry: one long run of drawers

A dark wood flat-panel vanity with two doors and four drawers, fixed to the wall clear of the tile floor — A floating vanity, hung from the wall

A closet pantry with seven tiers of U-shaped shelves edged in solid wood — Pantry shelves, fitted wall to wall

Pale flat-panel tall and upper cabinets fitted tight to the ceiling and wall — Tall cabinet and uppers, scribed to the ceiling

Santa Barbara South Coast

Closet and pantry shelving

Shelving built in place, wall to wall: a closet with corner shelves and double hanging rods, and pantries with shelves that wrap the corner. Each shelf gets a solid wood front edge so it stays straight under load. The last is a walk-in closet lined in cedar.

Custom closets · Custom shelving

A painted white closet with five tiers of corner shelves and two bays of hanging rods — Corner shelves and double hanging rods

A small pantry with painted white shelves fitted between a side panel and the wall — A pantry, painted

Unpainted pantry shelves wrapping a corner, each with a solid wood strip along its front edge — Before paint: shelves edged in solid wood

A walk-in closet lined in cedar boards with white shelf towers and hanging rods — A cedar-lined closet

Painted white pantry shelves wrapping two walls — Pantry shelves wrapping the corner

Santa Barbara South Coast

A hardwood surround for a steel spa

A stainless steel spa wrapped in hardwood: vertical boards on the sides and a wide cap with mitered corners, where four boards meet at an angle and every gap shows.

Exterior trim · Custom furniture and pieces

A square stainless steel spa clad in vertical hardwood boards with a wide mitered hardwood cap, beside stone steps — The surround, from the stone steps

Close view of vertical hardwood cladding and the hardwood cap around a stainless steel spa — Cladding and cap

A long level lying across the hardwood cap of the spa surround — Checked with a level

Santa Barbara South Coast

A deck and stair railing

New decking, a guard rail of closely spaced balusters, and a stair rail to match, photographed in bare wood before finishing.

Stair railings and treads · Exterior trim

A new wood deck with a railing of closely spaced vertical balusters along a board-and-batten house — The deck and its railing

Tom, a white-haired carpenter, sanding the top of a new wood stair railing — Tom easing the edge of the stair rail

New deck boards running to a solid-looking guard rail of vertical balusters, with trees beyond — Deck boards and guard rail

Santa Barbara

Bath vanities and linen towers

Two baths in one house, each with a painted Shaker vanity and a tall linen tower built to the ceiling.

Bathroom vanities · Custom cabinetry

A blue-gray Shaker vanity with a black top beside a matching linen tower reaching the ceiling — Vanity and linen tower

A blue-gray Shaker linen tower and vanity along one wall of a bathroom with a dark tile floor — The second bath

Santa Barbara South Coast

Access doors

Small exterior doors made to fit: a pair of redwood-framed lattice doors for a crawl-space opening, and painted utility doors with vents set in stucco.

Exterior trim · Trim and door repair

A pair of small redwood-framed doors with white lattice and screen set into white exterior trim — Framed lattice doors

Two white painted board doors with vents and handles set into a stucco wall — Painted utility doors

Santa Barbara South Coast · 1992

A synagogue ceiling for a Los Angeles museum

In 1992 Tom helped install “From Exile to Redemption” at the Martyrs Memorial and Museum of the Holocaust in Los Angeles: the museum’s model of a 17th-century Polish wooden synagogue ceiling, designed and painted by the artist Joanne Abensour. The museum’s newsletter pictured the installation.

Ceiling beams and coffered ceilings