Kitchen Design & Custom Cabinetry in Royal Oak, MI

Custom cabinetry is the answer here: designed to the inch around existing walls, windows and ceiling heights so you gain real capacity without losing the character that made you buy the house.

Royal Oak rewards a careful hand. Bungalows, tudors and craftsman homes here have proportions and trim details worth keeping, and the fastest way to devalue one is to install a kitchen that ignores them. Our approach is to modernize the way the room functions while keeping the language of the house intact — matching reveal depths, respecting window heights, and letting cabinetry meet original casing cleanly.

Square footage is usually the constraint. We regularly recover usable space by taking cabinetry to the ceiling, converting a former back porch or breakfast nook into working storage, and replacing base cabinets with drawer stacks that make the lower half of the kitchen fully accessible. Small kitchens feel larger when nothing is buried behind a door.

Finishes tend to be warmer than in newer suburbs — painted or lacquered fronts with a subtle sheen, timber accents, unlacquered brass or aged bronze hardware, and stone with visible movement. The result should look like it belongs to the house, and like it was always meant to be there rather than added last year.