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Custom Cabinetry in Boise Foothills & Highlands
The Boise Foothills and Highlands rise straight from the city into the sagebrush hills — hillside custom homes with big views, angular modern architecture, and a rugged natural setting. The cabinetry that suits them is warm, textural, and built to hold a room with a view.
Above the city, the Foothills and Boise Highlands are where the architecture gets bold: hillside lots, walls of glass aimed at the valley, and contemporary and mountain-modern homes designed around the view. Cabinetry here has to hold its own against a dramatic setting without competing with it. Alderwood builds cabinetry for foothills homes to that brief, designed and installed by one Treasure Valley team.
The homes of the Foothills & Highlands
Foothills homes are built into the slope — multi-level plans, cantilevers, and great rooms oriented to the valley lights below. The style runs contemporary and mountain-modern, with natural stone, steel, and wood, and kitchens that are part of a single open living volume. Because the view is the point, cabinetry is asked to be handsome but quiet, and to solve real storage without cluttering a room that’s all sightlines.
Cabinetry that suits a foothills home
Textural, warm woods answer the setting: knotty alder and rift-sawn white oak, often in a natural or lightly stained finish, paired with a low-relief flat-panel or frameless door for a clean modern face. A wood range hood or a run of full-height cabinetry can anchor the kitchen wall opposite the glass, while integrated panels keep appliances from breaking the calm. We build on plywood cases with dovetailed drawer boxes and soft-close hardware, in finishes that echo the stone and steel these homes favor.
For Boise Foothills & Highlands homes we most often reach for knotty alder and rift-sawn white oak, natural finishes. Explore the wood species we build in, or explore kitchen cabinet styles.
Drawings to install, on a hillside
Hillside builds are unforgiving — access is tight and the architecture is exacting — so having the same team design, mill, and install the cabinetry removes a lot of risk. We build to the field dimensions and install with our own crew, so integrated appliances and long uninterrupted runs land as drawn against all that glass. As a licensed Idaho contractor (RCE-6681702), the work is permitted and managed end to end.
What we build in Boise Foothills & Highlands
The services that fit Boise Foothills & Highlands homes most often — each designed, manufactured, and installed by our own Boise shop.
Custom Kitchens
Full custom kitchens designed, built, and installed by one Idaho shop.
Learn more →Custom Range Hoods
Custom wood range hoods — the millwork centerpiece over the range, built and finished to match your cabinetry.
Learn more →Architectural Millwork
Wall paneling, coffered ceilings, trim, and custom millwork for fine homes.
Learn more →Wine Rooms
Custom wine walls, racking, and cellar millwork for serious collections.
Learn more →Boise Foothills & Highlands is part of the Boise area we serve. Explore our full range on the services overview, or browse every Treasure Valley neighborhood we work in.
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