The Guac Green Dining Room Built-in

A Craftsman-style shaker built-in for a dining room in East Sacramento, CA, with a glossy guac-green interior, stained and textured oak shelves and custom milled hardwood handles. Designed and fabricated by PhillBuilt.

Craftsman shaker dining room built-in in East Sacramento with a glossy green painted interior and oak shelves

Painted shaker built-in cabinets and drawers along a dining room wall, East Sacramento

Shaker cabinet doors with custom milled hardwood handles

Custom milled hardwood drawer pulls on a painted shaker built-in

Close-up of custom milled hardwood handles on painted inset cabinet doors

Stained and textured oak shelf inside a glossy green cabinet interior

6 photos · swipe or tap the arrows

Classic shaker outside, a surprise inside

From the dining room, the built-in reads as a calm wall of painted shaker cabinetry: tall upper doors, a run of base cabinets and deep drawers, all set inset in a clean painted frame with a matching base. Open the doors and the interior is a glossy guac green, a bold, happy color that makes every dish and glass on display stand out.

Stained and textured oak shelves

Inside, the shelves are oak, stained and textured so the grain stands up and catches the light. The warm, dark wood against the glossy green gives the cabinet a rich, furniture-like feel when the doors are open.

Custom milled hardwood handles

Instead of store-bought hardware, we milled the handles ourselves from hardwood and painted them to match. Paired block pulls on the doors and long, low-profile pulls on the drawers keep the faces clean while still giving every door and drawer a comfortable grip.

Part of a whole-house project

This built-in is in the same East Sacramento home as our Wire-Brushed Craftsman Kitchen, just through the doorway. The painted dining room cabinetry and the dark wire-brushed kitchen were designed to work together as one Craftsman home.

Project details

Location: East Sacramento, CA
Style: Craftsman shaker, painted, with inset doors and drawers
Interior: glossy guac-green paint
Shelves: stained and textured oak
Hardware: custom milled hardwood handles
Scope: designed and fabricated by PhillBuilt

More: residential projects, custom built-ins in Sacramento, custom work in East Sacramento and The Wire-Brushed Craftsman Kitchen.

Let's talk