Mike Buss · Owner & Craftsman

Your room,
your design.

Built by hand for the space it lives in. I make custom built-ins for Central New York homes — mudrooms, pantries, libraries, window seats, and storage for the rooms that never came with any. One craftsman, start to finish: I measure it, build it in the shop, and install it myself. Nothing gets ordered from a catalog and shimmed until it almost fits.

Just finished · Camillus, New York

A mudroom built-in, made for the wall it lives on.

A finished mudroom built-in: a hardwood bench seat in an alcove, a white hook rail with black iron hooks above it, small floating valet trays at each end, and an upper shelf.
Hook rail with heavy black iron hooks and a floating valet tray at the end of the run.
Hook rail — heavy black iron
A floating hardwood valet tray mounted above the hook rail, with a key hook underneath.
Built-in valet tray, key hook beneath
The bench top running wall to wall above open shoe storage.
Bench scribed wall to wall
  • The benchSolid hardwood top over open shoe storage, scribed to the wall so there is no gap to caulk at either end.
  • Valet trayA floating hardwood ledge built into the run, with key hooks underneath.
  • Hook railHeavy black iron hooks on a solid rail, anchored into framing rather than drywall.
  • BoxesBirch plywood cases with solid poplar face frames, sprayed satin white enamel.
  • Bench finishRubio Monocoat — a hardwax oil that can be repaired in place instead of stripped.
  • BuiltIn the shop, then installed on site. Your house is a job site for a day or two, not a month.

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