Custom Work

Yes, we do custom work.  And we can ship anywhere on the planet. See customer stain color photos below.

We can make stereo cabinets, entertainment centers, wide screen television cabinets, CD DVD cabinets, bookcases, complete wall systems, and widescreen tv cabinets—any kind of cabinet you’d like. Even specialized cabinets like LP or reel-to-reel. Unique collectible or display cabinets.

We love a challenge.  And our purpose-built factory is equipped for it.  Our main wood saw is nineteen feet square!

We can produce your designs in any kind of wood, and from our 40 years of experience, we have contacts for sourcing just about anything.

We can do custom colors in the Minwax Wood Finish palette. The oil finishes on oak yield our most beautiful wood tone shades. Remember that your request for a stain finish on maple will be lighter because the base wood is almost white after fresh sanding. The water based stains offer a wider selection of wood tones and a rainbow of colors. And speaking of color any latex or enamel you've found is an option.  Just tell us what you want.

We color, sand, and color again. The final clear topcoat is from Greenlight Coatings, a professional epoxy acrylate satin gloss.  We flash cure it with ultraviolet light.  It’s an exceptionally durable, solvent-free, no-emission finish.

Regular cabinets ordered through this web site are usually finished and ready to ship in about two weeks. Turnaround on custom pieces is usually one month.  Custom colors take a little bit longer. 

For custom work, we’ll quote you a price that includes shipping.  We build the piece, but before we finish it, we email you a photo.  After you approve it, we disassemble it, finish it, pack it with TLC, and then ship. We can delay a ship, hit a target arrival date, and ship signature required. There's an illustrated hardware checklist in the carton along with easy assembly instructions online.  We’re here to support you as you set up.

Here are some examples of our custom work along with some customer comments: 

Here's a custom DVD cabinet in maple with Minwax Cherry stain and True Black shelves.

 

Here's our SC1952 finished in a Minwax Golden Oak on red oak. The shelves are 18 inches wide for typical modern home theater components. The slide extends 16 3/4 inches clear of the cabinet.

SC2248 with Minwax Gunstock on oak stain and clear glass. Slide shelf can be set at any height.

Tom's SC2248 Gunstock stain on Maple with clear glass doors. Complements the room!

 

SC1970 70Hx19Wx21D entertainment center in Special Walnut with gray glass and slide out.

Nice vintage Sony collection!

A Minwax Pickled Oak entertainment center. (SC2248 with gray glass doors)

Hinged clear glass top entertainment center with Minwax Golden Oak Finish. We can put this top on any of our cabinets.

SC1950 entertainment center with gray glass top and doors in natural oak with clear satin topcoat.

SC2230G entertainment center. Clear glass top and doors in Minwax English Chestnut.

Glass top SC2230 with clear glass finished with Minwax Golden Oak stain.

BC1372 oak bookcase in Minwax Golden oak filled with 45's and LP's next to a working jukebox! 

Brenda's slat door oak and walnut cabinet with a Golden Pecan stain. Slide out top shelf.

 

Vintage restored typewriters displayed in an SC2260 Maple with clear glass doors.

Second photo shows LED lights added. Dramatic!

 

Minwax Green Tea finished entertainment center. This joyful color shipped up to a Canadian home in a wonderful apartment.

Billy's Marine Blue SC2224 goes well with his speakers!

 

This is Dave's SC2248 finished in Red Mahogany. Handsome!

Captain Bob's SC2260 audio cabinet with oak framed glass doors.

 One piece wall system to be completely finished in Minwax Red Oak on oak. Hopefully I'll get a complete finished photo from John!

 

Semi-gloss white latex on maple custom 60 wide audio cabinet. Left panel held by magnets!

 

 

 

SC1950G in red oak stain. At 50" high the reel-to-reel is perfect!

 

This is a maple SC2248 with a custom door with walnut. General Finishes Antique Oak stain.  

 

57 inch wide entertainment center in ebony with three 18 inch wide bays.

It's hard to see but there is a pull out shelf on the left for an LP player. Compliments the 60" screen.

SC2260 with gray glass flanked by SC2248's with drawers and a door all finished in Minwax Sedona Red.

 

This pair of unfinished oak 28 x 90 high DVD cabinets will display a significant library!

Room lit with blue light bulbs! SCDW33 entertainment center in electric blue.

 

8 foot high bookcases and LP cabinet in Minwax Golden Oak stain. Local installation, but does easily ship as a kit!

This is the same SC1953 cabinet in Minwax Golden Oak with clear tempered glass doors and wooden doors to hide a record collection. Custom made but such a great idea that we now offer it as one of our a regular products.

SCDW2233 double wide entertainment center with gray glass finished with Minwax True Black 274.

Extra clear coats on the top and sides really makes a difference!

This is a top detail of an entertainment center we made finished in Minwax Gunstock Oak. It's sized for a large vintage Kenwood reciever collection.

Dave's black oak SC2230 with gray glass doors.

Maple cabinet with General Finishes Antique Oak stain and genuine cross banded walnut slide doors makes a handsome LP cabinet.

This is an Oak cabinet we made for a customer who wanted it to double as a room divider.  It was his design.

This is an unfinished oak DVD bookcase we made for a San Francisco apartment. It needed to fit in a certain spot. She was so happy with the result, we ended up making quite a few cabinets for her.

This is an oak stereo cabinet with a black satin finish we made for a client with a collection of vintage Sony receivers and components. We had to make it extra large because those early Sony's were mammoth!  They're still beautiful, though, and still producing exceptional sound.  Here's what the customer had to say: "The new cabinet arrived with zero damage. Everything looks great, and I'm digging the black finish. I'm thrilled!"

This is a six-foot high SC2272 entertainment center finished in Minwax Gunstock Oak. The pigments in the stain have a nice balance of red and brown. The summer and winter grains on the oak contrast nicely. All the exposed edges were capped with solid oak so we could do our trademark rounded edge.

This unfinished maple bookcase is eight feet tall. We can make them even taller, although it's more economical shipping-wise to make stacking units. After we took this picture, we sanded it to a bright white and gave it a beautiful clear satin finish.

Here's a maple lowboy bookcase with adjustable shelves and a clear satin finish we made for the same San Francisco apartment mentioned above.

Here's maple bookcase number two for the same San Francisco apartment. It's bigger and sits in the same room with the bookcase above. 

This is BC1330 black on oak with a satin finish. I apologize for the reflections. Light streams into our factory through the clear overhead skylights, which makes photography a challenge!

Here are two custom maple stereo cabinets for each side of a customers fireplace niches. There are custom cut outs in the backs for her pre-wired sound system. A Minwax Gel Stain would have yielded a more even stain coat on maple...but this is the color she wanted! What you see is our best effort and a perfect satin top coat, as always! We are here to serve.

This is a SC2248 in maple with our standard clear satin finish and hard rock maple edging. The contrast with the black stereo components is nice.

This is our SC2230 in a Minwax Ebony stain with satin gloss top coat. The summer grain is a very dark brown, while the dominant winter graining is black. I love the nice organic finish, which shows off the natural wood grain beautifully. In fact,  liked it so much, I added this piece in this finish to our product line. Imagine pairing this finish with our gray tint glass!

Here's the SCDW33 in Minwax Golden Oak with satin top coat. A wide flat screen TV would go on top nicely or can be wall mounted above. There's plenty of storage for an extensive home theater entertainment center.

Steve's SC2230 entertainment center with clear finish on oak. His receiver fits perfect!

 

This is the SC2272 in maple with a clear satin finish. All the edging is in quarter sawn hard rock maple with some figuring and flame in the grain. Nice! Maple like this is a standard selection of our entire line. 

Here's a bookcase wall system in maple with a toe kick to raise the back above the base board trim for a flush wall mount with discrete right angle brackets.  I made this for my good friend, Charmaine, who's also one of my best customers.  She loves sea birds as you can see. (pun intended!) 

This is a customer photo of a pair of maple entertainment centers finished in Minwax Golden Oak stain. They have matching single glass doors which are shown open.

This is a 72-inch high x 40-inch wide maple DVD cabinet we made in midwestern soft maple to fit a specific spot in an apartment. The customer was delighted! We added a middle divider to eliminate any shelf sag risk. The edge banding is hard rock maple with some figure because it ends up quarter sawn. The back is luan plywood.

Here's 36-inch wide by 30-inch tall cabinet for a record collection.  It's finished in Minwax Golden Oak with clear satin top coat. This will match the stereo cabinet the customer bought from us previously. It's low enough to fit under a window. Here's what the customer had to say:  "I received the record cabinet yesterday and assembled it last night. It went together fine and it looks great. Thanks very much!"

This is the model SC1973 with full length glass doors and 11-inch high wood doors for reel to reel tapes, DVDs, and headphones. I finished it in Minwax's Ebony Wood Finish with our satin top coat.  Although I built it as a custom project, once again, it was such a wonderful idea that I added it to our product line. This 73-inch tall cabinet has 18-inch wide shelves for modern components. It can display a complete sound system in a minimal footprint.

Here we did a single door pane in gray tint for a 53-inch high stereo cabinet. It has black hinges and a magnetic touch latch. It works beautifully, and there were no issues with shipping it. Consider this door when ordering!

We did the this 27-inch high model SC2224 stereo rack in a hand rubbed Minwax light walnut stain that accents the summer and winter grains nicely.

Here's a black oak stereo rack with gray tint tempered glass doors. It's 45-inch high x 19.5-inches deep x 21-inches wide. The customer requested three shelves for a Macintosh system. I bet it sounds real nice!

This is our regular BC772 DVD bookcase in maple finished with Minwax Sedona Red and full length gray glass doors with all black hardware.

Here's a black oak SC1953 stereo component rack we finished with a satin lacquer top coat.

 

 

Here's a custom 19 1/2" wide by 45" high stereo in black oak with a satin lacquer top coat.

Customer photo of side by side BC772 DVD bookcases in Minwax Golden Oak finish.

Customer photo of a custom entertainment center built for a vintage component collection. The figure from the quarter sawn edge banding really pops!

Here's a custom black entertainment center we built living in it's new home.

An SC2224 with a Natural Minwax finish on oak hosting a nice small sound system.

 Dark walnut triple wide DVD cabinet adjustable shelves and base trim. This will make an attractive installation!

Triple wide natural maple DVD cabinet with header and base trim.

 

Custom double wide DVD bookcase 42W x 58H in Natural Oak. Wide base for stability.

 SC2224 finished in Minwax Charcoal Gray. Looks fantastic!

One of two different sized custom bookcase swivels built for a retired Hollywood screenwriter. His house was full of intriguing custom furniture he'd collected over the years. Minwax Gunstock finish.

 

3 stacked SC2230 stereo cabinets finished in Red Mahogany. You can really see the quarter sawn grain figure in the solid wood edge banding! Gorgeous.

Bow front black stereo cabinet with faceted sides and black glass. Very fun to create and a challenge. You can see it came out great. Client fitted the cabinet with a thermostatic fan as well. Nice! A further neat trick would have been curved glass!!

84" high by 48" wide double bookcase. Shown without shelves prior to finishing.

A group of 4 SC2272 in maple with single gray glass doors with locks. Custom base. These were beautifully finished with a very even custom matched blood red finish. Sorry no photo of the finished group!

 

 SCDW2245 with gray glass doors entertainment center. Room for a lot of stereo components with a widescreen on top or on the wall.

 

 Simple black cabinets for rack mounted stereo components. 

A SC2248 finished in Minwax Gunstock. I didn't attach the base trim because it was due to be shipped.

Black on oak reel to reel cabinet with clear glass doors. 8 inches behind doors x 40 inches tall.