Built-ins, wardrobes, internal doors, stair carpentry, kitchen and laundry trim, single-room fit-outs. The carpentry inside a renovation, finished to the same standard as the rest of the work. Licenced and Insured Canberra carpenter, five-year workmanship warranty.
The carpentry inside a Canberra renovation: built-in joinery, custom wardrobes, internal doors, stair carpentry, kitchen and laundry trim, single-room fit-outs. Typical scope from three thousand for a small built-in through to twenty thousand for a full single-room fit-out. Five-year workmanship warranty on every job, in writing.
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, alcove built-ins, sliding-door wardrobes, walk-in wardrobes with custom internals. Matched to the existing trim, painted or oiled to your finish.
Solid timber doors, panel doors, sliding doors, cavity sliders. Frame installation, architraves matched to existing profile, brass or matte black hardware to spec.
Finish carpentry around new kitchens and laundries: skirtings, architraves, scribing to imperfect walls, splashback trim, cornice work. We bring the carpentry together once the cabinetmaker has finished.
Bedroom, study, bathroom, or living-room carpentry packages. The full carpentry scope of a single-room refresh: walls, trims, joinery, doors, floors as needed.
Internal staircases, balustrades, handrails, newel posts, tread replacement on existing stairs. Timber or steel-and-timber combinations, finished to match the rest of the home.
Bringing all the carpentry together when you’re renovating: structural framing changes, lintels, wall openings, subfloor patches, finish carpentry across the affected rooms. Coordinated with your other trades.
Ramon walks every project himself before quoting. Within 48 hours of your call, anywhere in Canberra. Talks through scope, materials, and how the carpentry sits alongside your other trades.
Fixed price, line items spelled out. If we find something behind the plaster (frame rot, old wiring, lintel that needs replacing), work stops and the variation gets signed off in writing before another nail goes in.
Single-room fit-outs in one to three weeks on site. Built-ins and wardrobes three days to a fortnight. We work clean in occupied homes, dust-sheeted and packed up each afternoon.
Or send Ramon a photo of the space on 0448 464 599. You’ll have a ballpark price the same afternoon.
Yarralumla · Bathroom vanity & built-in joinery · 7 days
Tasmanian oak, brass fittings
“We’d had a bad experience with cabinetmakers fitting things that didn’t scribe to the wall. Ramon spent half a day getting it right and you’d never know the wall wasn’t plumb.” — Owner
Deakin · Full bathroom renovation · 14 days
Solid timber door, tile, custom joinery
“Did the carpentry alongside our tiler and plumber, kept the whole job moving. Quote came in at the price. We were back in there a fortnight after we started.” — Owner
Barton · Internal staircase + balustrade · 6 days
Merbau treads, steel balustrade
“The old staircase was a deathtrap. Ramon designed and fitted the new one in a working week. The kids actually use the stairs now.” — Owner
A standard sliding-door wardrobe in an existing alcove takes about three to five days. Floor-to-ceiling built-ins with custom internals (drawers, hanging, shelving) run one to two weeks. Walk-in wardrobes with full joinery are typically a fortnight, depending on size and finish.
A cabinetmaker builds the cabinetry in a workshop and delivers a finished product to install. A joinery carpenter fits, scribes, and finishes that work into your actual home, including everything around it (architraves, trim, doors, walls). We work in both worlds: we’ll build simple joinery on site, or coordinate with your cabinetmaker for more complex work and handle the install and finish.
Yes. Kitchen and laundry renovations almost always have a cabinetmaker doing the cabinets, a plumber doing the rough-in, a tiler doing splashbacks, and an electrician doing lighting. The carpentry that pulls it all together (skirtings, architraves, trim, scribing, cornice work, doors) is what we do. Happy to coordinate directly with your other trades.
Mostly custom, but we’ll fit flat-pack if it’s a quality system and properly scribed to the wall. If you’ve already bought flat-pack wardrobes and just need them installed properly, send us the spec and we’ll quote the install. For built-ins we’d almost always recommend custom over flat-pack, because the savings on flat-pack disappear when you have to scribe it to a wall that isn’t straight.
A simple set of built-in shelves in an alcove starts around three to four thousand. A floor-to-ceiling wardrobe with sliding doors and custom internals runs five to twelve thousand. A walk-in wardrobe full fit-out is typically twelve to twenty thousand. Free site visit, fixed written quote, line items spelled out.
We do the prep (sand, fill, prime). For larger jobs we coordinate with a painter we’ve worked with for years, or you can supply your own. For oil and wax finishes on raw timber we do that ourselves. Either way it gets done properly before we’re off the job.
Yes, most of our renovation work is in occupied homes. Dust-sheeted access path, work area sealed off if needed, tools and offcuts packed up each afternoon. We work clean and finish each day so you can use the space overnight where the scope allows.
Free site visit within 48 hours. Or send Ramon a photo of the space on 0448 464 599 for a ballpark price the same afternoon.
Mon to Sat · 7am to 6pm
Specialising in Canberra’s inner south
Yarralumla · Deakin · Griffith · Red Hill · Forrest · Kingston · Barton · Manuka · Curtin · Garran
And servicing all Canberra surrounds. Belconnen · Tuggeranong · Woden · Gungahlin · Weston Creek · Molonglo Valley