It’s a common tale: A couple buys a house and gut-renovates the kitchen. That’s not often the case, though, when this room features work by Platt Cabinetry (plattcabinetry.com). “The house is on owner number three or four and we’re called into retrofit our cabinetry which has outlasted the new appliances,” says Steve Adam, the Ayer-based firm’s director of cabinetry.
Brass details on cabinet doors
Building long-lasting products is a point of pride for the team, whose roots stretch back 35 years. Owner Halsey Platt first established the cabinet shop in 1989, focusing on custom pieces alongside millwork. The small operation then became part of Platt Builders, which the craftsman founded three years later. While the cabinet shop continues to lend its expertise to Platt Builders’ projects, its staff produces work in a wide range of styles for other local contractors and vendors, too. “The best projects have a really collaborative team with a builder, a designer, an architect, and then ourselves as the cabinet source,” Adam says.
A striking white kitchen with seamless cabinetry
For the Platt team, which also oversees installation, the building process is paramount. Whether they’re using go-to North American hardwoods to craft traditional vanities or ultra-modern kitchen cabinets, the group handles all aspects of fabrication and finishing inside their new 14,000-square-foot shop in downtown Ayer. “That’s one of the things that makes us us—that all-hands-on-deck, we’re-doing-everything-ourselves mentality of we’re going to control this from start to finish,” Adam says, adding that the whole cabinetry team makes a point of gathering halfway through each project to review how things are coming together. After all, for this crew, nothing’s more important than quality.