The kitchen you stand in every morning, made once and made right, in solid oak and walnut that only looks better after twenty years of use. Drawn, cut, and hand-finished for you under one roof in the Hudson Valley.
You get one set of hands from the first drawing to the last coat of oil. Whether it is a whole kitchen or a single alcove, the person who designs your piece is the one who cuts the timber and finishes it.
Laid out around the way you actually cook, so everything lands where your hand already reaches for it. Framed cabinets, dovetailed drawers, and countertops in timber, stone, or steel, fitted to the millimeter.
Wardrobes, libraries, window seats, and mudrooms that turn an awkward wall into storage you reach for every day. Set into the house so cleanly they read as part of it, not furniture pushed up against it.
Paneling, staircases, doors, and moldings that make a new room feel like it was always there. Traditional joinery, no shortcuts, finished to outlast the people who commission it.
Four surfaces cover most of what leaves the workshop. We will bring samples to your kitchen table so you can see them in your own light.
Hard, stable, and it warms with age. Our default for kitchens that get used every day.
Darker, softer, and quietly dramatic. Usually an island, a dresser, or a run of drawer fronts.
Tulipwood and birch ply, sprayed and hand-finished in any color you bring us. Repaintable in ten years.
Limestone, marble, and granite templated after the cabinets are fitted, so the joints land where they should.
Every drawer in this workshop is still cut by hand, because the joint outlives the fashion.Tom Rearden · Founder
Northoak has worked out of the same barn outside Rhinebeck since 1998. Timber comes in through one door as boards and leaves through the other as finished rooms. Nothing is sent out to a trade factory, and the person who measures your kitchen is one of the people who builds it.
One team from measure to install. No subcontracted flat-pack, no middlemen. You speak to the person who builds your kitchen.
We visit, measure every wall, and learn how you live in the room before a single line is drawn.
Full elevations, timber choices, and a fixed quotation. You see the design before you commit.
Cut, jointed, and hand-finished at our Hudson Valley bench over four to eight weeks.
Installed by the makers, adjusted on site, and left spotless. A ten-year guarantee on every joint.
Every commission is one of a kind. A handful of recent kitchens and fitted pieces from across the Hudson Valley.
Custom does not have to mean unknowable. These are the ranges most Northoak commissions land in, so you can tell early whether we are the right workshop for your project, and plan around a real number instead of a guess.
Alcove joinery, a library wall, a mudroom, or a run of wardrobes. Painted or oak, fitted in a day or two.
Cabinetry, dovetailed drawers, and installation. Countertops, appliances, and stone are quoted separately.
A dresser, a table, a single commissioned piece in solid timber, made to your dimensions.
Ranges are illustrative and shown for a fictional workshop. A real quotation would follow a site visit and a set of drawings.
We work across the Hudson Valley, and travel for the projects worth traveling for.Rhinebeck · Hudson · Kingston · The river towns
They measured a wall that has not been square since 1780 and the cupboards still shut like a bank vault. Two years on, nothing has moved.
We were quoted less elsewhere. What we got here was one person who drew it, built it, fitted it, and answered the phone the whole way through.
Quotations are illustrative and written for a fictional workshop.
Tell us about the room and how you want to live in it. You will hear back from us within two working days, from a person who can actually answer your questions.
