Human. Useful.
Beautiful.

Good joints should be admired. Construction should be simple and honest. We tinker, we improve and we consider every detail.
We are Kerf Design.

Close-up of walnut veneer drawer cabinet with exposed plywood edges. One drawer has orange laminate applied to the front.

A man opens a refrigerator in his kitchen. The kitchen has walnut veneer and light blue laminate accents in the open cubbies.

We love plywood.

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What We Do

We are a small team of designers and craftspeople in Seattle, WA. We design and build custom plywood cabinets in a unique style that we have been developing since 1999. If you have a custom project you'd like us to quote you can learn more about the process here.

We make a few standard products too. Check out our Store to see what's available.

Kerf cabinets are the result of an ongoing artistic investigation into plywood construction. Honestly, they are just cabinets, but they mean a lot to us. They are an earnest effort to create something useful, necessary, essential and beautiful.

These are our rules:

1) Be honest in our craft.

2) Be purposeful in our art.

Learn more about our design philosophy