Upholstery is running 10 to 14 weeks, custom cabinetry 8 to 12, and stone is back to normal. Updated each quarter.

A line-by-line look at one Kenwood kitchen plan: what we drew, what we specified, and what the client did themselves.

Fee structure, who orders the furniture, what happens when something arrives damaged, and two more that most people forget.

Some clients only need something their contractor can build from. Bundling that into a full design package made it cost more than it should.

Ninety minutes, a tape measure and a lot of questions. What we measure, what to have ready, and what you get three days later.

Indoor humidity here can swing from about 20 percent in January to 55 in July. How we choose, store and lay oak so the gaps stay small.

A change order is the price of deciding something after the contractor has started. Most of them trace back to a drawing nobody made.