Davidson County
Custom cabinets, closets & remodels in Forest Hills
Custom cabinetry and remodeling for Forest Hills, where 1960s and 1970s ranches and split-levels sit on acre lots off Tyne Boulevard and Otter Creek.
- Forest Hills, TN
- Free in-home consultation
- Built in our Nashville shop
Forest Hills is a small incorporated city in southern Davidson County, almost entirely residential, with lots that commonly run from one to three acres along Tyne Boulevard, Otter Creek Road and Granny White Pike, and Radnor Lake State Natural Area at its southern edge. Much of it was built in one generation: brick ranches and split-levels from the 1960s and 1970s, plus 1950s ranches in Chickering Hills and Chickering Park, set back from the road on wooded ground. Newer estate houses have replaced some of them, but most owners keep the original house and improve it.
That is the work that comes from Forest Hills: a long ranch with a kitchen at one end and a den at the other, reorganized so the two meet; a split-level with a lower floor turned into a home office and media room; garages that hold mowers, kayaks and a second refrigerator and need proper storage to do it. Forest Hills is about twenty minutes from downtown Nashville by Hillsboro Pike or Granny White Pike.
What do Forest Hills homeowners usually ask us for?
The most common project is a whole-kitchen remodel in a 1960s or 1970s house. Those kitchens were compact, wrapped in wall cabinets to the ceiling with a soffit above, and separated from the family room by a wall or a pass-through. Owners want the wall gone, an island where the peninsula was, and cabinetry that runs deeper and taller than the original, with a pantry cabinet or a walk-in pantry taking over the old utility closet. The rest of the house is often fine; the kitchen is what dates it.
Close behind are primary suites. A ranch from this era has a modest bathroom and two reach-in closets, so the request is a combined closet and bath, sometimes claiming a small fourth bedroom to do it, with a vanity built like furniture and a dressing room with drawers and double hanging. Home offices are the third request, now that so many people in Forest Hills work from the house, and split-levels give them a natural spot on the lower floor.
What is different about working on a home in Forest Hills?
Forest Hills has its own city government and issues its own building permits, and the city's residential zoning is written around large lots and low density, so most projects stay inside the existing house rather than adding rooms. The houses themselves are solidly built, with real plaster in some, drywall in others, and long unbroken walls that take cabinetry well. Driveways are long and wooded, so we plan deliveries and staging around them, and we protect original hardwood floors, which in this era are often worth keeping.
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The kind of work we bring to Forest Hills
Can you open up the kitchen in a 1970s ranch in Forest Hills?
Yes, and it is the project Forest Hills houses ask for most. The wall between the kitchen and the family room is frequently non-bearing or can be carried by a beam, which lets us run one line of cabinetry along the new opening and set an island where the peninsula used to be. We confirm the framing before design work begins.
Do you build garage storage for homes in Forest Hills?
Yes. Forest Hills garages tend to be large and full: mowers for big lots, bikes, coolers, a second refrigerator and the overflow from the house. We build wall-hung cabinets, tall lockers, open shelving and a workbench sized to the garage, finished to stand up to heat and humidity, so the cars fit and the gear has a place.
Do you do smaller projects in Forest Hills, like a single pantry or closet?
Yes. Not every project is a full remodel. A walk-in pantry with counter space, a laundry room with a folding counter and cabinets, a home office wall or one dressing room are all common stand-alone jobs, and they follow the same process: an in-home consultation, drawings, shop-built cabinetry and careful installation.
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