Project record
Brookhaven Built-Ins: Painted Cabinets Around a Stone Fireplace
Regular cabinet boxes with finished sides, scribed to the stone. Two days of photos.
Brookhaven, GA
built-ins in the same cabinetry style we use for kitchens, on both sides of a stone fireplace
two alcoves, coffered ceiling
installed by our crew
Project photos
4 photos from this project
What we found before the design
A stone fireplace with two empty alcoves ended up with painted builtins on both sides, bases with doors below and open shelves above.
Two empty alcoves flanked a stone fireplace under a coffered ceiling, and that was the whole room before we started.
The stone set the terms for the build. Whatever went into the alcoves had to meet it cleanly, so the filler along the stone became the detail to get right.
What we changed
We built cabinets into both alcoves: bases with doors below, open shelves above, painted to match the trim.
Built-ins are regular cabinet boxes with finished sides. The finished sides matter because the exposed ends show, and they should look like part of the room, not like the end of a kitchen run.
The filler is the part that takes the time. The photos run two days from the first to the last. A filler is a strip that closes the gap between the cabinet and the wall, and here it is scribed to the stone.
For a built-in like this we work from our catalog: a white shaker or light gray shaker door, the same cabinet boxes we use in kitchens, installed by our crew.
What it costs
For reference, a kitchen like this runs on different numbers, but the labor rate is the same: our crew's installation list within 100 miles of Alpharetta is $130 per cabinet box ($90 ready-assembled) and $50 per filler, labor only. Every project is quoted per project from the free 3D design. Current prices for cabinets are on our pricing page, and the installation page explains what the crew does on site.
The finished living room design
Three after photos show built-ins on both sides of the stone fireplace, with doors below and open shelves above.
The paint matches the trim, so the wall reads as one piece under the coffered ceiling.
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