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Built-In Ideas for Your Home

Custom built-ins make an excellent addition to virtually any home, regardless of your interior design style. From modern industrial to traditional farmhouses, our team has helped create custom built-in solutions in all types of homes throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

This blog will help you understand some of the benefits of adding custom built-ins to your home. Then, we’ll share some of our top recommendations for where you can add custom built-ins in your own living spaces! 

Why Add a Custom Built-In to My Home?

Adding a custom built-in shelf or cabinet is an excellent way to bring visual interest to a space. More than just their aesthetic appeal, custom built-ins can provide many different benefits to your home, including:

  • Storage: Including a built-in shelf or cabinet can help maximize storage space for your personal belongings.
  • Organization: Custom built-ins can help you stay organized by providing a set place for every item in the room.
  • Convenience: With a place for everything and everything in its place, custom built-ins offer ultimate convenience and a stress-free living environment.
  • Comfort: Some built-ins can include custom seating solutions, such as benches, to bring increased comfort and coziness to your space.

Our design-build team offers the turnkey solutions you need to breathe life into your space. Contact us online or call (240) 383-1226 to get started today!

Where Can I Add Custom Built-ins?

Custom built-in shelving and cabinetry solutions don’t just work well with any home style — they work well in just about any room in your home. There are many different places throughout your living space where you can add built-in solutions, including:

Kitchen

Your kitchen should be a space that’s as beautiful as it is functional, and custom built-ins can help in each of these areas. Built-in cabinets and pantry shelving can provide ample storage space for all your culinary necessities. A built-in corner booth with bench seating can transform your space into the eat-in kitchen you always wanted.

Bedroom

Who wouldn’t love an organized, functional closet with built-in shoe shelving, handbag cubbies, built-in drawers, jewelry cabinets, and other customizations? Adding custom built-ins to your bedroom closets is an excellent way to restore order to chaotic clutter.

Bathroom

Custom linen cabinets make a great addition to any bathroom space. Along with storage optimization, homeowners can enhance comfort and safety by adding built-in bath shelves and shower benches to their bathrooms.

Den

From floor-to-ceiling bookshelves to game storage to custom built-in media centers, there’s no end to your living room’s custom shelving and cabinetry possibilities. Including custom built-ins in your den areas is a great way to stay organized while still having access to everything you need to remain entertained and comfortable.

Schedule a Custom Built-in Consultation With Wentworth

Custom built-ins are a mainstay of thoughtfully designed, sophisticated homes. Whatever your vision may be for the shelving and cabinetry in your Mid-Atlantic area home, Wentworth can help. Through our architectural and interior design prowess, our remodeling experts are here to make your custom-built-in dreams a reality.

Schedule a consultation with our Chevy Chase, MD remodelers!

“ "My family is delighted with the detailed and professional work of the Wentworth team. It was really a pleasure to work with you from start to finish. Your team brought our home up to current standards with elegant transitional design and luxurious finishes. The design and installation of our project was managed smoothly even under the challenging circumstances of 2020." ”

J.R. Chevy Chase, Maryland