Period-Appropriate Custom Cabinets for Historic NE Portland

Our workshop sits on NE 42nd Avenue, minutes from Irvington, Alameda, and Laurelhurst. That proximity matters on heritage work: we can pull a sample, mill a test profile, and bring it back to the house the same week to check it against the original trim in daylight.

Installs are staged off the alley or the street depending on the block, and we protect original floors, stair treads, and door casings before anything is carried in. Old plaster and out-of-square walls are expected here, so we scribe on site rather than assuming a clean 90 degrees.

The Irvington Historic District and neighboring Alameda, Laurelhurst, and Grant Park are dominated by Craftsman, Foursquare, Tudor, and Colonial Revival homes built between roughly 1900 and 1930. They share deep casing, picture rail, beaded inset cabinetry, and original butler's pantries that are often the best clue to what a new kitchen should look like.

We replicate that vocabulary rather than approximating it: beaded inset doors, period casing and crown, glass upper doors where the original had them, and stain or paint matched to surviving trim. Where a profile has been discontinued, we grind a knife and mill it new.