Built to order
Solid wood cabinets, built for your room.
A cabinet should hold its place in the room as well as it holds what you put inside it. Rodney builds made-to-order pieces around your space, your storage, and the details that make daily life easier.
A better fit starts with a real need
Storage that belongs in the room.
A standard cabinet can be useful, but it asks the room to accept its size, shelves, and proportions. A custom piece begins with the opposite question: what does this wall, corner, bathroom, or collection need to do?
Maybe you need a display cabinet that uses a narrow stretch of wall without looking squeezed in. Maybe the bathroom vanity needs to fit a particular sink and leave room for plumbing. Maybe a base cabinet needs to carry a heavy aquarium, serve as kitchen storage, or make a hard-working utility space feel finished. The job comes first. The cabinet follows.
Rodney builds each piece from solid wood in his Meredosia shop. You work directly with the person making it, so the dimensions, shelf spacing, doors, drawers, wood, and finish stay in one practical conversation.
One cabinet can solve a lot
Built for the way you use the space.
Display and collector cabinets
Glass doors, adjustable shelves, and the right depth can give collections, heirlooms, books, or everyday dishes a proper home while keeping them visible and protected.
Bathroom vanities
A made-to-order vanity can work around the room, sink layout, storage needs, and the details that make a bathroom feel more settled than a stock box under a countertop.
Base and storage cabinets
Low cabinets, chimney cabinets, and utility pieces can add drawers, doors, shelves, and a stronger visual anchor where a room needs both storage and order.
Size is only the beginning
The inside should work as hard as the outside.
A cabinet’s overall size matters, but the useful decisions are often inside. Shelf height changes what can live there. A drawer can catch the smaller things that get lost behind a door. Glass doors can put a collection on view. Solid doors can calm a room by keeping the everyday clutter out of sight.
Start by naming what needs a home. Serving pieces, books, towels, records, tools, collectibles, pantry items, or a television setup all ask something different of a cabinet. That is more useful than beginning with a style label, because it gives the build a clear job from the start.
Then look at the room around it: doors that swing nearby, baseboards, windows, radiators, outlets, countertops, and the path people use every day. A cabinet is most satisfying when it feels like it was always meant to be there.
Talk Through Your SpaceA straightforward start
Bring the room into the conversation.
You do not need finished drawings to begin. A few photos, rough dimensions, and an honest description of what is not working now give the project a useful foundation.
- Share the space.Send photos and measurements of the wall, opening, or room where the cabinet will live. Include nearby features that affect the fit.
- Name the job.Talk through what needs to be stored or displayed, how you use the room, and the shelves, drawers, doors, or features that would make life easier.
- Settle the details.Choose the wood, finish, proportions, and practical details before Rodney builds the piece one cabinet at a time.
A few details go a long way
What to measure before you call.
Measure the available width, height, and depth, then take the numbers in a couple of places. Old houses and finished rooms are not always perfectly square, and trim can change the usable opening. A quick sketch showing windows, doors, outlets, vents, and baseboards is often as helpful as a long list of numbers.
For a bathroom vanity, include the sink plan, wall position, and anything already fixed in the room. For a display or collector cabinet, think about the tallest and deepest pieces that need to fit, as well as whether you want them behind glass or solid doors. For a base cabinet, note the weight it needs to carry and whether a countertop, appliance, or other piece needs to sit above it.
Photos are valuable, especially one that shows the full wall and one that shows the details close up. If you have a finish, furniture piece, or inspiration photo you want to work with, bring that along too. The goal is not to make you do the design work. It is to give Rodney the practical information needed to make a sound recommendation.
Real work from the shop
Solid wood, useful details, and a place for what matters.
A cabinet can be a quiet part of the room, but it carries a lot. It can make a bathroom easier to use, turn an unused wall into storage, protect a collection, or give the things you reach for every day a place to land.
The strongest design is not always the loudest one. It is the one that fits the room, carries its load, and still feels right years after it is built.
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Frequently asked questions
Can a solid wood cabinet be made to fit a specific space?
Yes. Start with the opening or wall where it will live, then share the width, height, depth, nearby trim, outlets, and anything that needs clearance. Those details help shape a cabinet that fits the room instead of forcing the room to fit it.
What kinds of custom cabinets does Rodney build?
Past work includes display cabinets, collector cabinets, bathroom vanities, base cabinets, chimney cabinets, and storage pieces. The best starting point is the job the cabinet needs to do, then the size, shelves, drawers, doors, wood, and finish can follow.
What should I bring to a cabinet project conversation?
A few room photos, rough measurements, a description of what needs to be stored or displayed, and inspiration photos are all helpful. If the cabinet needs to work around plumbing, a countertop, a television, a fireplace, or another fixed feature, include that in the first conversation.
Ready when you are
Let’s build the cabinet your room has been missing.
Bring the space, the rough measurements, and the job it needs to do. Rodney will help you sort through the rest.
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