Service S / 03
Finish work that holds up to being looked at closely.
Kitchens, primary suites, and living spaces where the reveals are consistent, the grain runs the right way, and the tile layout was planned before anything was cut.
High end interior work is decided in the setting out. Anyone can install an expensive kitchen. Making it look expensive once installed is a function of decisions made weeks earlier: where the tile grid starts so you do not finish on a sliver, how the cabinet runs relate to the window trim, whether the island lines up with the beam above it or misses by an inch that you will notice every day for twenty years.
We plan those things on paper and then we plan them again on the wall. Full size layout lines, dry fits, and mock-ups for anything unusual. It slows the start and it speeds up everything afterwards, because the trades are not improvising.
The other half of the job is what sits behind the finish. Blocking in the walls before the board goes on so a shelf or a grab rail can go anywhere later. Ventilation that actually moves the air a range hood claims to. Waterproofing in wet areas done as a system rather than a product. Lighting circuits split so a room has more than one mood. None of it photographs, and all of it is the difference between a room that looks good and a room that works.
Scope at a glance
| Project type | Kitchens, bathrooms, whole-floor interior renovation |
|---|---|
| Typical duration | 8 to 20 weeks per major room, longer for whole floors |
| Design | We build to your designer's drawings or help you develop them |
| Selections | Allowance schedule with deadlines, so lead times do not stall the job |
| Dust control | Sealed zones, negative air, and daily clean down |
| Warranty | Workmanship warranty on all installed finishes |
What is included
Rooms we take on
- Kitchens. Full gut and reconfiguration, structural openings into adjoining rooms, custom or specified cabinetry, stone templating and fabrication, and ventilation sized to the appliance rather than the cabinet.
- Primary bathroom suites. Curbless and low-threshold showers, full waterproofing systems, heated floors, and tile layouts set out before a single cut is made.
- Living and dining spaces. Opening up compartmentalised ground floors, rebuilding fireplaces and surrounds, and integrating joinery with the existing architecture instead of against it.
- Flooring throughout. Site finished hardwood, wide plank, engineered assemblies over radiant, and careful transitions between old and new.
- Trim and detail. Casing, base, crown, and panel work matched to the period of the house or drawn fresh where the house has no opinion.
- Lighting and electrical. Layered circuits, dimming, and enough outlets in the right places, coordinated with your designer's drawings.
Detail
Selections are a schedule, not a shopping trip.
The most common cause of delay on interior work is not the building. It is a tile that was chosen in week nine with a fourteen week lead time.
At contract we issue a selections schedule listing every item we need from you and the date we need it by, working backwards from when it has to be on site. Appliances, plumbing fixtures, tile, stone, cabinet hardware, paint, light fittings. You will know in month one which decisions are urgent and which can wait.
It sounds bureaucratic. In practice it is the thing that lets us tell you an end date and hold it, and it removes the low-grade dread of feeling like you are always one decision behind the crew.
Questions
What homeowners ask us first.
If yours is not here, call and ask. We answer our own phone.
Either. We work with several cabinet shops and can build to your designer's drawings, or we can install a line you have already specified. Where the room has awkward geometry or a period the house needs matched, custom is usually the better value because you are not paying for filler panels to hide the gaps.
For a full gut, plan on eight to twelve weeks from demolition to a working kitchen, longer if we are moving walls or relocating plumbing stacks. We set up a temporary kitchen elsewhere in the house at the start, which sounds minor and matters enormously by week six.
Yes. We take a profile from the existing trim, have knives cut where the profile is not available off the shelf, and run new stock to match. In houses where the original detail has been lost we work from what remains in the least altered room.
A recessed floor structure so the drain sits below the surrounding finished floor, a fully bonded waterproofing membrane rather than a liner, a linear or correctly positioned drain, and a floor slope that works without looking sloped. It is more structural work than most people expect, which is why it belongs in the plan from the beginning.
Related
Most projects touch more than one of these.
Next step
Ready to price it properly?
Send drawings if you have them, photographs if you do not. We will come back with a scope, a number, and a timeline you can plan around.