Our Work

Before and after

Real jobs, photographed on site. Drag the slider on any project to see what the room looked like when we walked in and what it looked like when we left.

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Full Kitchen Remodel

Kitchen Remodeling

Everything above the floor came out. New shaker cabinets to the ceiling, quartz countertops carried up the wall as a full-height backsplash, a vented hood and pot filler over the range, undercabinet lighting, and new fixtures throughout. The dated solid-surface counters and the soffit above the uppers are gone.

Kitchen after remodeling, grey shaker cabinets with white quartz countertops and full-height backsplash

Kitchen before remodeling, white cabinets with dark green solid-surface countertops

Before After

Sink wall and island

Kitchen range wall after remodeling, with vented hood, pot filler and quartz backsplash

Kitchen range wall before remodeling, with tile backsplash and over-range microwave

Before After

Range wall, hood and pot filler

Kitchen after remodeling, with floor-to-ceiling pantry cabinets and wall ovens

Kitchen before remodeling, looking toward the refrigerator and doorway

Before After

Pantry wall and wall ovens

Kitchen Renovation & Island Build

Kitchen Remodeling

A dated wood kitchen stripped back and rebuilt with painted cabinets, a walnut-topped island with seating, and a built-in niche with open shelving. Shown mid-demolition and finished.

Finished kitchen with painted cabinets, island seating and walnut counter

Kitchen during demolition, old wood cabinets partially removed

Before After

Demolition through to finished

Deck Tear-Off & Rebuild

Decks & Porches

The old deck had gone soft and the railing was past saving. We tore it out and built a larger pressure-treated deck in its place, with new railing, a wider stair run and lattice skirting.

New pressure-treated deck with railing and stairs

Weathered wooden deck before replacement

Before After

Full tear-off and rebuild

Wraparound Pool Deck

Decks & Porches

A pool-surround deck built from the ground up. Posts set and framed on site, then decked, railed and finished with stairs at both ends.

Finished pool deck with railing and stairs on both ends

Pool deck during framing, posts and beams set

Before After

Framing through to finished

Two-Story Great Room Refresh

Interior Finishing

Painting a two-story room means scaffolding, which is most of the job. Walls and the full-height ceiling repainted, trim cut in, and the old ceiling fan swapped for a chandelier on the existing medallion.

Finished two-story great room with a new chandelier

Two-story great room with scaffolding set up and the original ceiling fan

Before After

Scaffolding up, and the finished room

Wet Bar Rebuild

Carpentry & Tile

Same footprint, different room. New quartz countertop, a full slab backsplash run to the ceiling, floating shelves with integrated lighting, and recessed cans added overhead.

Wet bar after, with quartz counter, slab backsplash and lit floating shelves

Wet bar before, with dark cabinets, granite top and tiled backsplash

Before After

Counter, backsplash, shelving and lighting

Start To Finish

Jobs shown in order

Some work is worth seeing in stages rather than as two end points, because most of the job is the part that gets covered up.

Lakeside Seawall & Walkway

Decks & Shoreline

A shoreline job start to finish. The bank was cut back and the run strung to a line, a treated ledger set along the water, then the whole walkway framed and topped with composite decking. Done in late autumn, which is how shoreline work usually goes.

Shoreline excavated with a string line run and the first treated timber set along the water — **Excavate and set the line**Bank cut back, string line run, first treated timber set along the water

Walkway joists framed over the excavated trench alongside the water — **Frame the walkway**Joists cut and hung off the beam, square to the line the whole run

Finished composite walkway running along the shoreline at dusk — **Deck and finish**Composite decking laid and fascia wrapped, ready for the season

Composite Deck Build

Decks & Porches

Two decks on one house. The main-floor deck wraps the sunroom, framed in treated lumber on footings and decked in composite with hidden fasteners, and a second deck sits off the master upstairs. Both finished with black aluminium railing.

Deck joists framed on footings behind a house with a curved sunroom — **Frame and level**Joists laid out on footings and levelled across the whole footprint

Composite deck boards being installed over the finished framing — **Lay the decking**Composite boards going down with hidden fasteners, railing posts set

Finished main-floor composite deck with black aluminium railing beside the sunroom — **Lower level, finished**Main-floor deck with the aluminium railing set and the edges wrapped

View from the second-floor deck off the master bedroom looking down at the main-floor deck — **Upper level, off the master**Second-floor deck off the master bedroom, looking down over the main deck

More Finished Work

Other recent jobs

Tile, decking, cabinetry and outdoor work from around Mid-Michigan.

Patio & Overhead Lighting

Patios & Outdoor

A poured patio off the back of the house, with string lighting run overhead on posts so the space works after dark.

Concrete patio at dusk lit by overhead string lights — **Lit at dusk**

Second view of the lit concrete patio at dusk — **From the other corner**

Custom Basement Bar

Carpentry & Cabinetry

A built-in bar for a finished basement. Painted cabinetry, a walnut butcher block top, open shelving and pendants over the counter.

Basement bar with walnut butcher block counter and pendant lighting — **Walnut top, cabinetry and pendants**

Home Exterior Refresh

Exteriors

The same property as the composite deck build. Alongside the two decks, the outside of the house was brought back together as one look, from the entry and drive side through to the rear elevation and the sunroom.

Front elevation of a grey-sided two-storey house with a concrete drive — **Front and drive side**

Front entry with a stained wood door, sidelights and a stamped concrete porch — **Entry**

Rear of the house showing both deck levels, the sunroom and a fire pit on the lawn — **Rear elevation**

Raised view of the rear of the house showing the full deck, sunroom and yard — **From the back lawn**

Tile Work

Tile

Expect tile on most of what we do. Large-format wall tile, vertical stacked subway, mosaic and patterned floors, plus the niches, curbs and waterproofing behind them.