Demonstration site. The firm, reviews, and dollar figures are fictional.

Charleston peninsula, the islands, and West Ashley

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About

A small shop with a written schedule.

Field & Timber, in this demonstration, works on houses people already live in. No spec homes, no commercial fit-outs, and no catalog to order from.

The story we use for the demo starts in a rented bay off upper Meeting, then a move to Bogard Street so the millwork and the job files could live in the same building. That address is fictional. So is the staff list: there are no portraits on this site because there is no staff to photograph.

Roles, for the sake of the company profile, are a project lead who still does site measure, four carpenters, and a finish scheduler who will not let a painter start on damp plaster. Outside trades — electrical, HVAC, and a plaster crew — are the same names from job to job.

What a job looks like

Week one is a walk-through and a list of what is failing: a sill, a beam end, a kitchen that dead-ends at a garden wall. Drawings come before orders. On a South of Broad single house, that set is what we would take toward the Board of Architectural Review. On a Wagener Terrace cottage, it is a plan the electrician can price without a second visit.

Lead time for painted inset doors in this demo is about five weeks. Site work does not start the day the contract is signed.

A stone and brick house with a tiled roof, reflected in still water and backed by trees
Stand-in exterior. Not a Charleston single house, and not a completed Field & Timber project.
  1. MeasureOne visit, a notebook, and photographs of the existing sash, floors, and anything soft under a window.
  2. DrawA scope with rooms, materials, and a week count. Historic streets get an elevation before a purchase order.
  3. Lead timeMillwork, stone, and brass are ordered while the house is still occupied, when the scope allows it.
  4. SiteProtection, demolition, systems, then finish. One historic job open at a time in this fictional shop.
A bright kitchen with white oak floorboards, a stone island, and wood stools
A kitchen stand-in used for material talk: wood floor, painted boxes, a stone top.

Materials we specify on purpose

Heart pine where a patch can disappear. Sinker cypress for piazza decks and exposed beams that will see weather. Limewash over new plaster when the old walls were never flat. Soapstone or a honed marble that can take a knife. Unlacquered brass that is supposed to go dull. Charleston gray brick only when the existing wall is already that brick — we do not skin a cottage in a costume.

We do not sell those materials here. This website has no shop, no cart, and no product grid.

See the three scopes or ask for a walk-through.