Ipe Deck with Outdoor Shower and Inset Stone

This deck makes a perfect outdoor grilling and lounging area. Equipped with a luxurious outdoor shower, it makes it easy to cool off in the summertime.

The rooftop garden features a series of low-voltage LED lights that run along the edge of the upper and lower decks creating a dramatic effect at night. The lights are inset into the ipe boards so that the surface is completely smooth.

All of the ipe was milled to precise widths to ensure that the removable decking sections would line up perfectly. Below is a view of the elevated train through beach grass. The custom planter boxes are painted to compliment the steel railing behind and are created at various heights to mirror the surrounding cityscape.

Shelving and Cabinetry

City Beautiful Carpentry can build ANY kind of interior cabinetry. Built-ins and free-standing shelving units can be made out of any material with any finish.
We specialize in working within unique interior spaces and old New York City architecture to create shelving that is so precise that it can make the rest of the room look square and level.
You can choose your material from any available foreign or domestic wood and finishes. As you decide on the specifics of your project, we will advise you on the "greenest" and most environmentally conscious alternatives for your project.

We also use some of the cleanest tools and dust collection systems to ensure that your home stays clean and usable while we are installing your new cabinetry.

Planter Boxes and Storage Cabinets

We offer a complete selection of planter boxes and custom storage cabinets. We build using all types of wood including ipe and cedar. All of our planter boxes are made with marine-grade plywood and are lined with roof-grade rubber. All exposed edges are treated and painted, which insures they will last longer than any other wooden boxes that you can find.

This is a selection of trash cabinets from various parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The one below is made from ipe, which we showcase the different shades of the wood in the continuous stripe pattern of the doors.
Ipe is strong and resilient to the weather, and if treated properly can last more than 15 years.

All of our planter boxes are built with adequate drainage, so that the plants will thrive, and water will move easily out of the box, preventing rot.

Backyard Meditation Garden: Bamboo and Brazilian Walnut

This backyard garden fence was made using black bamboo and ipe. It is a rather complicated fabrication process to combine the bamboo poles with the flat ipe boards, but when completed it created one of our most unique environments.

Park Slope Garden and Planters: Ipe and Brick

This backyard garden in Park Slope consists of a a handsome ipe fence with cap, in front of a brick and stone planter system. The garden was designed by Timothy Osborne of The Organic Gardener NYC.

This aerial shot also shows off the opposing wall and the set of ipe furniture that we fabricated for the garden, including a curved ipe bench.