Custom closets in Bronxville.

Bronxville is the village that the Metropolitan Life Insurance heir William Van Duzer Lawrence built between 1898 and 1930 around the New York Central station. The result is one of the most architecturally coherent square miles in Westchester — about half Tudor, a third Colonial Revival, and the remainder Mediterranean and Norman cottage, all on lots of a quarter to half an acre, all within walking distance of the train. The Bronxville project is usually a full-residence project: the household has just bought a house, the closet stock is whatever the previous owner installed in 1986, and they want the whole job replaced.

Bronxville Tudors have a particular millwork tradition we like to honor. The original 1920s woodwork — quartersawn white oak, leaded-glass cabinet doors, brass hardware, the small linenfold detail on the cabinet faces — is still present in many of the houses. We pick up that vocabulary on the new work: quartersawn oak panels, leaded or fluted glass on the upper doors, an aged brass that matches the original hinges. The closet looks original to the house and is built to last as long.

Full-residence projects in Bronxville are sequenced over four to six weeks. We typically build the primary dressing room first, the mudroom and pantry next, the children's rooms and the laundry third, and the study or library last. The household lives in the house through the project, with one room out of service at a time. A named project manager is on site every day.

Gate-code coordination is the operative thing. We hold an internal register of gate codes, alarm codes, and house-manager contacts for every active Westchester project. The crew leaves the Bronx workshop at 6am and is on the property by 7:30. Bronxville does not require NYC-style no-parking permits — the truck parks on the property's driveway. The drive from the workshop is eighteen minutes off-peak up the Hutch.

Every project is milled at the Bronx workshop — a 14,000 sq ft workshop on the East River — and installed by the same crew that built it. We do not subcontract the install.