Kitchen-only builders, Nashville TN
We mill the cabinetry, fabricate the stone and install both with one crew. Kitchens only, since 2009, out of Bay 4 on Dickerson Pike.
Eight scopes, kitchens only
No bathrooms, no basements, no additions. Everything we own, from the CNC to the spray booth to the polishing bench, exists to finish kitchens.
Compare all eightRanges are sample figures. Your number comes from a measured survey.
Seven stages, one calendar
Open a stage to see what happens, how long it takes and the one thing we need from you that week. Photographs are from our own shop and sites.
Two hours in your kitchen with a laser and a camera. We measure the room, look at the panel, find the drain and tell you which walls can actually move.
Your part this stage. Show us where the annoyances are and tell us how you cook.
Two or three layout options, then elevations at half inch scale. Finishes are selected from material we can actually get this season.
Your part this stage. Approve the drawings and sign off on the selections list.
A line-item scope document, an allowance schedule and a calendar that names the week each trade arrives. This is the number the job runs on.
Your part this stage. Sign the agreement and choose your demolition date.
While the permit clears, your cabinetry is milled, assembled and sprayed. Stone templates are scheduled. Nothing is waiting on a catalog order.
Your part this stage. Come by for a shop tour if you want to see it being made.
Dust walls up, floor protected, temporary kitchen set. Then demolition, framing, mechanical, electrical and plumbing, and the rough inspection.
Your part this stage. Live around it. We keep the path clean and the noise to working hours.
Cabinets set and levelled, stone templated and fabricated, tile set, floor finished, appliances placed and connected.
Your part this stage. Approve the stone layout photo and the tile elevation.
We walk the room with you and write the list. Every door and drawer is adjusted, the final inspection is passed and the warranty document is signed.
Your part this stage. Walk the room with us and be honest about what is not right.
Planning tool
Most kitchens go wrong at the appliance order, not at the design. Pick what you want and see the rough openings, the wall run it needs and the circuits that have to be there before the cabinetry is built.
Cooking rough opening
30 in wide
36 in counter height, 30 in to combustibles above
Refrigeration opening
36.25 in wide
70 to 72 in plus 1 in above for air
Dishwasher opening
24 in wide
24 in, door swings 24 in into the aisle
Ventilation
300 CFM minimum
No makeup air required at this CFM
Power and gas to rough in
Watch for
A kitchen is a machine you stand inside for an hour a day. Build the machine first, then make it beautiful.
Recent work
A brick row house with a cooking corridor barely wide enough for two people. We took out the dining room wall, carried the load on a flush header and gained a nine foot island.
A 1924 bungalow with a kitchen added in the 1970s. We kept the footprint, moved the range to the outside wall and turned the awkward corner into a full pantry wall.
A 1960s ranch where the kitchen was a closed box next to a sunken den. One header later it is a single room with a 48 inch range and a working scullery out of sight.
The boxes were solid plywood and the layout already worked. We replaced everything anyone touches and left the kitchen usable for all but two days.
A 2004 farmhouse with a small island and a butler pantry used as a closet. We rebuilt the island at ten feet and turned the pantry into a second working kitchen.
A warehouse conversion with concrete floors, exposed structure and a builder kitchen that ignored both. We built a storage wall that works with the column grid instead of against it.
Stone, cut in house
Most remodelers subcontract the countertop and hope. We run the CNC, finish the edges on the bench and set the tops ourselves, which is why we can tell you where a seam will land before you pick a slab.
Walk through the material libraryCabinet lines, stone families, hardware finishesNever before. We measure the room as built, including walls that are out of plumb, so the backsplash gap stays tight.
A photo of your actual slab with the cut lines drawn on it, emailed for written sign-off. The veining lands where you want it.
A chipped edge four years from now is a shop job on a Tuesday, not a queue behind another fabricator's work.
Five people, not a subcontractor list
Design, joinery, stone, finishing and site. Everyone below is on payroll, and the person who mills your cabinetry is the person who hangs it.
CabinetmakingOwner and lead joiner
31 years in the trade
Started building face frames in his father's shop in Antioch in 1995 and opened Bay 4 in 2009. Still runs the shaper on door stock most Mondays because he does not trust anyone else with the profile setup.
Design and draftingDesign lead
12 years in kitchen design
Trained as an interior architect, spent six years specifying commercial casework, and now draws every elevation we build. She is the person who will tell you your 36 inch aisle is a mistake.
Framing and installSite foreman
18 years on site
Runs the site calendar, meets the inspectors and sends your Friday photo update. Has removed enough bearing walls in Green Hills ranches to know where the point loads usually land.
StoneStone fabrication lead
14 years on the bench
Runs the CNC and finishes every edge by hand. She is the reason we can tell you exactly where your seam will land before you pick a slab.
FinishingFinishing and spray
9 years in the booth
Mixes and sprays every door that leaves the shop. Keeps a rack of cured samples going back four years so we can match a repair to a kitchen we built in 2022.
What you are actually buying
Nine thousand square feet of saws, a spray booth, a CNC and a polishing bench. Tours most Saturdays.
Book a shop tourBecause we made your doors, a warranty repair is a shop job rather than a re-order. Finish samples from your kitchen stay on our rack.
Read the warranty termsMetro Codes for Davidson County, Williamson County for Franklin and Brentwood, and the historic overlay review where it applies. You never pull an owner permit for our work.
Permits and inspections
Cabinet lines, six stone families and the hardware finishes we actually stock.
See the materialsUnsecured improvement loans, a HELOC, a cash-out refinance or our own milestone schedule. We take no referral fee from any lender.
Compare the options3 weeks
to a design slot, with demolition dates opening from mid November. Sample figures, call the shop for real availability.
Field notes from the shop
Six real scopes with the numbers attached, and the five decisions that move a budget more than anything on a Pinterest board.
Read it
A week by week schedule from survey to punch list, including the three points where projects usually slip and what we do about them.
A Salemtown galley gained a full pull-out pantry without gaining an inch of floor. Six moves that create storage in a small kitchen.
Heat, acid, scratches and patina. A fabricator's view of which countertop materials survive which households, and the acid test we run on every quartzite slab.
Straight answers
If yours is not here, call the shop and ask for Imani. She answers the design questions and will tell you when a scope is a bad idea.
All questionsEight to twelve weeks for a full remodel, five to eight for a small or galley kitchen, and about two weeks for refacing where the kitchen stays usable almost the whole time. We set up a temporary kitchen on day one with your fridge, microwave and a work surface.
Our full remodels generally run $68,000 to $145,000, refacing projects $14,500 to $34,000, and countertop-only work $4,800 to $22,000. Where you land depends on footprint, whether walls or mechanicals move, cabinet finish and appliance package. These are sample ranges shown for illustration, not a quote.
We have a working shop with a selection wall rather than a staged showroom. Most Saturdays you can watch a door get sprayed and a slab get polished, which tells you more than a display kitchen does.
Yes. Our office files under our Tennessee contractor license and schedules the rough and final inspections. You should be cautious of any contractor who asks you to pull an owner permit for their work.
Almost never. We build dust walls, protect the traffic path and work standard hours. The loudest days are demolition and tile cutting, which we tell you about in advance.
Stock cabinetry comes in three inch increments, so the gaps get covered with filler strips you paid for and cannot use. We mill boxes to your actual openings, which usually buys back a drawer bank or a pull-out pantry. The material is also different: plywood boxes and dovetailed maple drawers rather than particleboard and stapled sides.
Two hours in your kitchen with a laser and a camera, then a budget band the same week. No pressure and no design fee to find out.
4.9 from 218 homeowners · 412 kitchens since 2009 · Five year warranty
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