Reclaimed wood accent wall installed across a dining room by Obsidianwise

Our work

The Portfolio

Real projects in Raleigh and the towns around it, photographed by the crew that did them. Tap any photo to see it full size.

Carpentry and finish work

Custom Feature Walls and Built-Ins

One house, a winter of finish carpentry. Shiplap, slat walls, arched shelving and a two story fireplace wall, framed, boarded and painted in place.

Two story fireplace wall with geometric trim pattern, taped and ready for paint — Fireplace feature wall, trim up and ready for paint

Arched built-in shelving unit in drywall stage before painting — Arched built-ins, drywall stage

Dark shiplap accent wall installed in a bathroom, ladder still in the room — Dark shiplap going into a bathroom

Detail of a wood slat wall panel meeting the door casing — Slat wall detail at the door casing

Geometric panel door painted black, masking still on — Geometric panelling in black, masked and painted

Flooring

LVP Through a Whole House

Luxury vinyl plank cut in through kitchens, halls and bedrooms. The boring part of this job is the part that matters: a flat, clean subfloor before a single plank goes down.

Luxury vinyl plank flooring partway through installation with tools on the subfloor — Mid install, subfloor prepped ahead of the planks

Kitchen island with new luxury vinyl plank flooring around it — Kitchen island, flooring finished

Room with fresh luxury vinyl plank flooring and a ladder against a patched wall — New floor down, walls patched for paint

Bedroom with new luxury vinyl plank flooring installed — Bedroom done and handed back

Restoration

Water Damage, Found and Fixed

These photos start ugly on purpose. This is what a slow leak does to framing and subfloor, and what the room looks like once the rot is cut out and rebuilt.

Rotted subfloor opened up around plumbing lines, before repair — Before: rot opened up around the plumbing

Water damaged floor joists exposed during demolition, before repair — Before: what the leak did to the joists

Rotted bathroom subfloor cut back to sound wood during demolition — During: cutting back to sound wood

Removing a rotted joist section under a bathroom floor — During: rotted joist coming out

Water damaged wall framing exposed before rebuild — Before: framing stripped for the rebuild

Water damaged wall base opened up around supply lines before repair — Before: wall base opened around the supply lines

House interior stripped to the studs during a full gut remodel — During: stripped to the studs

New framing and subfloor installed where water damage was cut out — After: new framing and subfloor in

Closet wall opened up with insulation exposed during a repair — During: closet wall open for the fix

New vinyl plank flooring laid after a plumbing wall repair — After: new floor over the repaired bay

Room mid restoration with ceiling opened and new drywall going in — During: ceiling open, drywall going back

Commercial

Office Suite Buildout

A suite of offices taken back to bare floor, then reframed, painted and refloored while the rest of the building kept working.

Commercial office space with old flooring removed down to concrete — Floor stripped to the slab

Office interior mid repaint with tools staged on the bare floor — Repaint underway

Office hallway during buildout with fresh paint on the walls — Hallway taking shape

Narrow office hallway painted with a blue accent wall — Blue accent down the corridor

Utility room repainted with a blue coated floor — Utility room, painted and sealed

Commercial

Restaurant Renovation

Ceiling grid open, ductwork and wiring sorted, walls prepped and the kitchen line kept intact. Commercial work runs on the calendar the lease sets.

Restaurant service counter opened up during demolition — During: counter opened up

Open restaurant ceiling grid with wiring and ductwork exposed — During: grid open, services exposed

Restaurant dining room with walls prepped and protected during renovation — Walls prepped, dining room protected

Commercial kitchen during renovation with scaffold in place — Kitchen side, scaffold in

Commercial restroom during renovation with floor removed — Restroom stripped for rebuild

In progress

Estate Remodel, As We Found It

A whole house documented before demolition. Every remodel should start with photos like these: they are the honest baseline the finished work gets measured against.