BUDDHA GATE MONASTERY - LAFAYETTE, CA

BUDDHA GATE MONASTERY IN LAFAYETTE, CA

A beautiful meditative garden of art and gorgeous skyline views sit on a hill top just out side the city of Lafayette in California. While visiting a client in Lafayette to design a home office I discovered this monastery to the side of her yard. What a wonderful place to be near to have a peaceful home office.
For more information go to their website: Buddha Gate Monastery

CLOSET SYSTEMS

CLOSET SYSTEMS

Not really a closet system specifically for our company of RC Cabinets & Closets is a fully licensed custom cabinetry company in California. We design custom cabinets for all sorts of spaces, I just love designing closets. To be more specific we design custom European Integral Custom Cabinets. Integral means the cabinetry are not module but the parts integrate together. What ever I draw we can create as long as I honor gravity and the state laws of California Building Codes and California State Contractors Codes.

I have noticed in the 20 years that I have been designing, is that many companies are not licensed and do not design correctly. Many of our clients in the 20 years of being in business have the same closet standing in their closet as well as the other custom spaces that we have designed for them; Home Offices, Pantries, Garages, Kitchens and other storage spaces. This comes from good design and excellent materials and construction.

The above closet is a very nice large closet system or closet design in St. Helena for a husband and wife. Simple, but well organized, well built and very well planned for maximized space.

CUSTOM CRAFT ROOM

AMAZING CUSTOM CRAFT AND SEWING ROOM

Designed for a lovely lady in Napa Valley and created with the infamous interior designer; Thomas Bartlett with me, Malka of course, made the most of this room for the client to play, organize her recipes and make her crafts. We used the plans that Martha Stewart had posted on her website for the sewing machine cabinet and it worked out perfectly. I spent many hours of research to find ideas for a sewing machine center and came back to the Martha Stewart plans. She did the best...

SAN FRANCISCO DESIGNS

SAN FRANCISCO DESIGNS

Not far from out showroom in the district referred to as The Avenues there are these beautifully designed mosaic steps hand created by an artist. I will have to look up his name again and do another blog on him. They are simply amazing and have a very colorful illustrated story to them.

CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

ST. HELENA CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

I designed a special knife display for the Culinary Institute of America retail store here in St. Helena. It is to display and store back stock of the top four knife companies in the world. Made in a mahogany wood with a shaker style type door front to coordinate with the grand old design of the building in which it is housed. The old building in St. Helena before it became the Culinary Institute of America was the Christian Brothers Winery long ago.
Malka of RC Cabinets & Closets

NAPA ARCHITECTUAL SIGHTINGS

These are some photos of a lovely walk we had in a newly recreated section of Napa along the Napa River. Architecturally beautiful old buildings were remodeled and some new buildings built to resemble the look of the Napa of long ago. Downtown Napa is looking good these days especially in our spring showers.