What is custom carpentry?

Woodwork built for one particular room instead of bought ready-made: built-in bookcases and shelving, closets, trim, paneling and doors fitted to the walls around them. At C&A it has included library shelving with a rolling ladder, built-in bunk beds, a media wall and a cane-front wardrobe.

What’s the difference between rough and finish carpentry?

Rough carpentry is the structure nobody sees once the walls close: studs, joists, rafters and deck framing. Finish carpentry is what stays in view, like trim, built-ins, paneling and doors, where every joint and reveal has to be clean. C&A does both, and its framers and carpenters are one crew.

Can you build built-in bookcases or bunk beds?

Yes. The bunk beds on this page are built into the wall with their own ladder, and the library on the home page runs floor to ceiling with a rolling ladder. C&A describes this side of its work as interior shelving, cubbies and any trim project you have in mind.

Do you replace interior and exterior doors?

Yes. One Google reviewer had C&A replace doors that were 70 years old, and the portfolio shows a pair of double wood entry doors. Older houses often have openings that are out of square, so the frame and trim usually need fitting along with the door itself.

Do you build closet shelving?

Yes. Interior shelving and cubbies are on C&A’s own list of carpentry work, and the portfolio has a reach-in closet shown before and after its shelving went in. Note what the closet has to hold, such as long hanging, shoes and folded stacks, so it can be laid out to fit.

Custom Carpentry & Built-Ins in Nashville, TN

What does C&A build?

Custom carpentry is the woodwork you see every day, built to fit one room. C&A puts it as building interior shelving and cubbies or any trim project you have in mind, and its photos show how far that goes: library shelving that runs floor to ceiling with a rolling ladder, a cane-front wardrobe, paneled walls and coffered ceilings.

Bunk beds and kids’ rooms

The bunk beds below are built into the wall instead of bought as furniture, with a ladder to the top bunk and trim that matches the room. Built-ins like this use the full width and height of a wall that would otherwise hold a dresser.

Built-in bunk beds with a ladder to the top bunk.

A media wall, framed and finished

A built-in media wall starts as framing. The pair below shows one wall twice: framed out with its openings, then finished, trimmed and painted with the shelving in place.

Media wall framed out before finishing — Framed out

Finished built-in media wall with shelving — Finished

Doors

Door work runs from interior doors to a pair of double wood entry doors, shown in the portfolio. Lizelle H. hired C&A to replace doors that were 70 years old; on an older house that often means squaring the opening and new trim as well as the door.

Closets and paneling

A reach-in closet with nothing but a rod and a shelf can be rebuilt with shelving and cubbies; the portfolio has one before and after. Paneled walls, like the v-groove entry wall there, are another kind of finish carpentry C&A does, for houses from Belle Meade to College Grove and Murfreesboro.

Custom carpentry and built-insBuilt-ins, trim and doors