Soho Penthouse Roof Deck

This rooftop garden creates a lush and private setting on a once open tar roof. Bringing plants, flowers and song birds to the urban environment fulfills our mission of

"Creating the Green in between".

The designs of this garden highlight City Beautiful Carpentry's skill at creating beautiful custom decks, planter boxes, benches, arbors and cabinetry.

The overall accomplishment of this project adds an increased amount of usable space and an improvement in the quality of life for our clients.

Includes planter box/bench units, and a forest-full of bamboo for privacy and meditation.
This is an outdoor jacuzzi, completely encased in ipe.

A close-up of the copper nosing.

Thanks to everyone who came to see us...

At the 2010

We were very pleased to partner with Mingo Design, Plant Connection Inc., and Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet to create a 400 square foot booth about high end sustainable garden structures and environments, focusing on FSC and other green building materials.


The booth was a huge success, drawing many compliments and enabling us to meet a whole host of people from various parts of the industry, and home owners from all over the area.

We were delighted to meet you all and look forward to creating beautiful custom carpentry and garden structures with you soon.

And again, a special thank you to General Woodcraft for helping us to make this booth happen.

Rooftop Terrace Overlooking the East River

This penthouse terrace is wrapped in custom ipe planter boxes to create an idyllic environment overlooking the East River.

Every corner on this project features 45 degree miters with hidden splines glued into the seam. This creates the cleanest attainable look with the strongest possible joint.

Below is an example of a "butt-joint", which still looks very handsome, but the seams are visible.

The boxes include an ipe base that has been contoured to follow the sloping angle of the tile deck.

The whole project compliments the stunning view of the East River.

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.

Walnut Kitchen Cabinets and Transforming Dining Table

This project not only included a complete set of custom solid walnut kitchen cabinetry (notice the continuous wood grain across the cabinet faces), but a specialty furniture project in the dining room.




During the day, the solid walnut dining room table and benches serve as a beautiful showpiece for guests, while at night the table collapses to the height of the benches, creating a secret guest bed for friends or family.

Herringbone Roof Deck- West Village

Herringbone describes a distinctive V-shaped weaving pattern usually found in twill fabric. The pattern is called herringbone because it looks like the skeleton of a herring fish. The picture below shows the final deck for a rooftop deck in the West Village of Manhattan.

Here is an example of Herringbone fabric, the inspiration for this design.
We also built this air-conditioner cover (left below) and the wide staircase leading to a lower , smaller deck. The detail at the corners of the trim on the deck follow their own herringbone pattern. The deck was also created using a minimum of visible screws, so City Beautiful engineered a decking system that fit together with hidden catches and tabs.

As you can see below, we created sample pieces out of plywood to test our system before fabricating the final deck out of ipe. We also assembled the entire deck in our Red Hook shop to be sure that the system worked before we transported them to the client's home.