Woodworks Los Angeles
N. Hollywood · CA Commission
Walnut built-in millwork, living room, North Hollywood
Joinery · 接合 · Est. N. Hollywood Fig. 00 · The House Built In

Built in to stay

A North Hollywood cabinet shop. Jack measures your room, draws the lines, mills the wood, hangs the doors. One commission at a time.

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Built once. Built right. Built in.
[1] In-home measure [2] In-house build [3] In-house install
N° 01

The Practice

A single crew measures, draws, mills, and installs. The man who drafts your closet is the man who hangs its doors. That's the whole method.

Woodworks is Jack's shop — twenty-two feet of bench, two planers, a table saw, and a panel router humming on Varna Avenue. Commissions arrive one at a time. Kitchens, closets, wine walls, home offices, the occasional full-house joinery program. Residential only. Los Angeles only.

Every project starts the same way: Jack drives to the room, lays out the tape, asks about the knife drawer and the coffee mugs. Two weeks later the drawings come back. Six to twelve weeks after that, the van pulls up with the doors.

The work leaves the shop finished. Face frames, drawer boxes, edge banding, hinges — all done before the trim carpenter ever sees the site. That's why the installs are clean and why the last nail goes in on schedule.

Macro detail — walnut panel joinery
Fig. 01 Walnut face frame · mortise-and-tenon · finished in-shop.
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Room by Room

Six programs. One shop. Priced per commission, drawn in-home, installed by the crew that built it.

N° 02 · A

Kitchen

Face-frame and full-overlay kitchens in white oak, walnut, maple, painted poplar. Integrated appliance panels, soft-close drawer banks, ten-foot runs.

Fig. A · Lead time 8–12 wk
N° 02 · B

Closet

Walk-ins and reach-ins. Oak island drawers, glass-front wardrobes, shoe walls, hamper integration. Fits under slanted roofs.

Fig. B · Lead time 4–6 wk
N° 02 · C

Bath

Walnut vanities, floating linen towers, medicine cabinets flush to drywall, radiused edges on water-facing pieces.

Fig. C · Lead time 4–6 wk
N° 02 · D

Office

Built-in desks, wrap-around shelving, hidden cable channels, document drawers. Standing-height or seated. Fits a Zoom room.

Fig. D · Lead time 5–7 wk
N° 02 · E

Laundry

Utility cabinetry that pretends it isn't. Hidden hampers, integrated appliance surrounds, stone-ready countertops.

Fig. E · Lead time 3–5 wk
N° 02 · F

Full Home

Whole-house joinery programs. One drawing set, one shop, one install crew across every room. Priced as a single commission.

Fig. F · Lead time 12–20 wk
N° — Mid
Every joint is visible if you know where to look. We build like somebody's looking.
Jack · Owner · Woodworks LA
N° 03

Recent Work

Three houses, one year. Each priced as a single program. Full drawings and materials list on request.

La Maida residence — walnut kitchen with pantry and wine wall
N° 01

La Maida

North Hollywood · 2024 · Kitchen + Pantry + Wine

A 1920s Spanish Colonial. The kitchen was the whole program — an eighteen-foot run of rift-sawn white oak, a full pantry behind a pair of pocket doors, and a wine wall stepping back into what used to be a hall closet.

Appliances were integrated. The hood came in on a custom cabinet. The back pantry got a salvaged brass sink. Install ran seven days on site.

Fig. A · The main run Fig. B · Pantry pocket Fig. C · Wine wall
Topeka residence — walk-in closet in white oak
N° 02

Topeka

Burbank · 2024 · Primary Closet + Bath

A reach-in bedroom closet blown out into a walk-in, shared wall with the primary bath. Island drawers in the middle, glass-front wardrobes on the perimeter, a seated vanity at the end where the morning light arrives.

The bath vanity matched the closet's face-frame language — floating, walnut, with a single radiused edge on the water side.

Fig. A · Island drawers Fig. B · Glass wardrobes Fig. C · Vanity match
Hillside residence — backlit oak wine cellar
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Hillside

Santa Monica · 2024 · Wine Cellar + Living Built-Ins

A converted utility room turned wine cellar. Oak racks, recessed LED strips behind each bottle row, insulated door, and a tasting counter in quarter-sawn oak that matched the living room built-ins on the other side of the wall.

The living built-ins carried the same rail line, the same face frame, the same edge detail. You could walk from couch to cellar without the eye ever catching a seam.

Fig. A · Rack wall Fig. B · Tasting counter Fig. C · Living room continuity
Interior — walnut millwork, afternoon light
Fig. 02 The room after the crew leaves · La Maida · 2024
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The Process

Four steps. No subcontracted installers. No surprise change orders. The same number on the estimate goes on the invoice.

01

Measure

Jack drives to the room. Tape, notes, photos of the baseboard. Free consultation — no deposit on the first visit.

02

Draw

Elevations and plan come back within two weeks. Material samples arrive with the drawings. One round of revisions included.

03

Build

Six to twelve weeks in the shop on Varna. Cases built, doors cut, drawers boxed, finish sprayed, hinges set. All before the crew packs the van.

04

Install

Same crew that built the piece arrives to hang it. Clean site, drop cloths, shoe covers. Most closets finish in a day. Kitchens take a week.

N° — Signature
Built once. Built right. Built in.
Woodworks Los Angeles · House Motto
N° 05

Materials

Three woods carry most of the shop. Others arrive for specific commissions. All stock is kiln-dried, rough-milled on site.

White oak — rift and quarter sawn
N° 05 · A · Appalachian hardwood

White Oak

Rift and quarter sawn. Pale, straight-grained, takes a finish without blotching. Default stock for kitchens and closets.

Walnut — American black
N° 05 · B · Midwestern hardwood

Walnut

American black. Chocolate heartwood, cream sapwood, oil finish only. Reserved for baths, wine cellars, libraries.

Maple — clean sheet for paint
N° 05 · C · Painted poplar & maple

Painted

Poplar face frames, maple panels, conversion-varnish finish. Sprayed in-shop, color-matched to trim. Laundries, offices, laundry-adjacent baths.

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Visit the Shop

By appointment. Consultation is in-home — Jack comes to the room before any drawing begins.

How the commission begins

Email or call with the room and the rough plan. Jack returns within two business days to schedule the in-home measure. The first visit is free.

If the job fits the shop, drawings come back in two weeks. Build starts when the drawings are signed and the deposit is paid. Installation is scheduled at draft, not at delivery.

Based in North Hollywood. Serving Los Angeles, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Santa Monica, the west side, and the valley. Occasional Malibu, Calabasas, Palos Verdes.

ConsultIn-home, free, within two business days of inquiry.
DrawingsTwo weeks from measure. One revision round included.
Build6–12 weeks in the shop. 12–20 weeks for full-home programs.
InstallScheduled at draft sign-off. Same crew that built the piece.
DepositDue at drawing approval. Balance at install start.