2024 Wood Diamond Award Living Spaces: Bar Over $25K Castleman Carpentry LLC First Place

Castleman Carpentry, llc, located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley is a family-owned custom wood working cabinet shop and class A general carpenter. Castleman Carpentry specializes in total transformations in any room of a client's house through thoughtful and careful design. All aspects of their projects are managed directly by the owners, Rich & Jodie Bonett. From initial consultation, through design and material selection, cabinet fabrications and project execution; Rich and Jodie are directly involved with their client's ensuring the best remodeling experience for their customers. At the wood working shop Castleman Carpentry creates truly “Custom” cabinetry. They take wood, sourced both locally and globally, and turn it into beautiful cabinet & millwork projects. They fabricate all of our cabinet boxes, face frames, doors, drawer boxes and fronts, moldings and trim.

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A Touch of Texas – This bar, which the homeowners named “Roxy’s,” brings a little bit of their home state of Texas to Virginia. All details bring beauty and function to their new entertainment space: the backless glass front uppers (showcasing the stone), a wine bottle display (with side access to grab that favorite bottle to share), a rustic recessed liquor niche, and hardwood Chicago bar rail attached to granite tops. Knotty Alder wood with a rich dark stain is complimented by integrated custom details seen from every angle of the bar A custom bar pantry door reveals a secondary utility area for prep and storage area when hosting larger gatherings.

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Chicago bar rail - Shenandoah Planing Mill 

Project Type: Residential

Project Category: Living Spaces - Bar - Over $25,000