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Due West Carpentry and Renovations
provides 'full service' Kitchen renovations and remodeling. With your partnership we offer consulting, guidance and communication down to the last detail throughout all stages of your project, whether it's big or small.
Regardless of the scope of work, we will maintain a consistent high quality level of performance in all of our renovation projects. |
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of 'downtime' and inconvienience to you and your family as a result of our efficiency, knowledge and hand's on approach. that your project will have an outcome that far exceeds your expectations. |
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I have found a lot of enjoyment in designing and building kitchens around the needs and inspirations of my clients. There can be such a significant visual and mechanical change when renovating a kitchen, and the customer has so many choices to tailor the final outcome by putting there personal 'touch' into it, which inevitably makes us both proud when the project is completed. All of the 'Due West kitchen' cabinets are custom made for their specific enviroment according to a design that we have created with the client that also incorporates every little construction facet like plumbing, heating, windows, electrical, wall changes and any other obstruction that may not be anticipated by your typical behind the desk salesperson designer with no construction or Installation experience. How does this all benefit you? You will have a far better designed kitchen. You won't have any unexpected delays. Your house will be clean and safe at all times, You will get more value for your money, you will be able to make 'real time' adjustments along the way, and your project will be expidited in a timely but courteous fashion at a speed that is only offered by the most expensive in the business. You won't have a partially completed kitchen waiting for a trade to come in to rectify a problem or waiting another month or two for replacement cabinets coming from back east or down south beacuse of the lack of insight to other constuction variables in your house which might even be installed by an employee that you have never met before who just saw your installation plans for the first time when he spilt his morning coffee on them. |
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Date: 2006
Client: Paisley
Cabinet and Lighting Design:
Michael Ravenscroft
Cabinet Installer: Michael Ravenscroft Project description: Full kitchen renovation including layout redesign. |
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This house dates back to the late 40's and the kitchen had allready been renovated at least once before by the previous owner.
My previous dealings of renovating the bathroom in this house left me shaking my head so much that it just about came loose,
so needless to say I was quite interested in what I might find. Other than having to patch all the holes in the sub floor underneath the
hardwood, troubleshooting and correcting some electrical and finding the floor to have a 1" slope over 8ft it wasn't too bad after all. Design elements: The design ideas for the cabinets around the stove and the fridge /pantry cabinets, I came up with myself. I drew up some concept drawings and provided them to the customer to review. They liked what I proposed and gave me the 'go ahead' to procede. I have done two other kitchen and bathroom renovations for these clients in the past so they trust my interpretation of their taste and our receptive to my creativity. More functional elements of the design were implemented like moving the stove over to provide a better focal point to the room and offer a closer proximity to the other 'work stations'.The sink was moved to the corner to create better flow and allow more room for relocating the dishwasher. The fridge was centered on the adjacent wall to provide better storage area via a double sided pantry and to also bring it closer to the other 'work stations'. Some call this a 'Golden traingle'. A 'peninsula' was also introduced with a radiused over hang to provide; more storage, a eating area, a homework area, socialization area and provide a natural break to the diningroom. I installed a 32" LCD screen that I 'prewired' behind the walls before the drywall stage to make it look wireless. This is a great idea if you want to keep an eye on the kids while preparing food or watching the morning news while having breakfast. The customer really wanted a place to put jackets by the back door where there wasn't any room for a closet. They wanted this to somehow incorporate into the kitchen, so I designed the cabinets to 'wrap around' the corner which included going around a weight bearing wall with a functional 5" deep cupboard and eventually meeting a full depth, full height jacket cupboard. |
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Points of Interest: The customers choice of the 14X14 Italian limestone (uniformed in color) layed in a 'subway' pattern
really made this kitchen look spectacular. The classic 'tropic brown' countertops and the different lenght handles really accentuated
the diverse multi sized cabinets that were designed into the kitchen layout. Even the 'broken slate' inlay over the stove lent itself to the
uniqueness of this kitchen. Notice that all of the wall mosiac is 'bordered' I prefer to do it this way because the slate these days isn't very
uniformed in thickness, especially the mosiac. (Dealers call this rustic, I call it something else) Either way it defines it much better when it
is 'bordered' and 'capped' especially on an 'outside corner'
The details: The wall mount hood range is designed to go to the ceiling and is also required to be a certain distance from the stove. To make this work with the lower height 'cabinet bridge' that I designed into the kitchen I had to have it cut down with a laser so it wouldn't leave any heat marks. Please take note that you can't see the ends of the drawers and doors when in the 'closed position'. This is because they are 'flush' (picture framed) to the millwork. Even the corner sink unit has a millwork 'gable' on either side of the doors. This gives the kitchen a very refined furniture like feel. You can imagine all of the measurements that went into this 'build plan', and how accurate everything must be in order for it to fit perfectly. Notice that the 'gaps' between all of the doors, drawers, and the millwork are 'uniformed' and even. This is a sign of a good installation. This particular kitchen required alot of 'on site' carpentry to join all of the horizontal and vertical cabinet components together. Only the boxes come 'on site' assembled and all of the wood in this kitchen arrives 'on site' oversized and pre-finished. It has to be 'scribed', 'cut', and 'joined' to the walls and to the other components without a chip or a scratch. You can't use caulking, you can't use filler and you can't 'stain match' a chip mark, because it will become darker and more noticable. We 'grain match' all millwork, crown mouldings and paneling to make the wood look continous. |
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