Custom Cabinets in Overton, TX

Kitchen cabinets, built-ins and storage for Overton — built to fit houses that mostly went up in a hurry in the 1930s and were never laid out for fitted units.

Kitchens in boom-built houses

Overton's housing came largely out of the few years after the oil arrived, when the town went from 426 people to four and a half thousand inside five years. Houses built that fast were built to get people under a roof — modest rooms, and kitchens that were never planned around a run of fitted units because nobody was fitting units then.

Factory cabinets come in fixed widths in three-inch steps and assume everything is square and standard. In these houses you get filler strips, a corner nobody can reach into, and a run that stops short. Building to the actual opening is the only thing that genuinely works.

Often the boxes are sound

Plenty of the kitchens here do not need tearing out. The carcasses are frequently solid timber and perfectly good, and it is the doors, drawer runners, handles and finish that have had their day. New fronts and hardware with the run refinished gets a different kitchen for a fraction of a rebuild, and we say so when that is the honest answer rather than quoting the bigger job.

Storage worth having

Mudroom benches with hooks, cubbies and boot storage. Pantry runs deep enough to be useful. Laundry cabinetry. Built-in desks. Window seats with storage under. Bookcases fitted into an alcove so they read as part of the house. Garage, barn and workshop storage built to hold weight.

Fifteen minutes away, which matters on a fitting job

Cabinetry is measured in person, built here and fitted by the same people who built it. Being ten miles up the road means a second visit to check something costs nothing, and small adjustments during fitting do not turn into another appointment a fortnight later.

Questions we get from Overton