Listen before drawing
The first meeting is a walk. We ask what you refuse to lose, what you are tired of cleaning, and who uses the room at 7 in the morning.
Service details →About Us
Home About
1999Studios sketches began
Our story
A Company Involved In Homes, Not Headlines
Butlington started as a finish-carpentry bench that kept being asked to solve the room, not only the cabinet. Households wanted someone who would look at the tired stair, the dark kitchen, and the bath that never dried, and answer with one plan.
More than two decades later the work is the same shape. We still measure before we specify. We still write down what will be protected. We still believe a successful improvement is one the household can explain to a guest without a brochure.
We do not sell a style. We sell attention: to light, to storage, to the way a door swings into a breakfast, and to the quiet after the sanders stop.
Work with usWhat we protect
Habits That Shape Every Quote
Name the materials
Paint lines, wood species, tile size, and hardware finishes are written into the outline so substitutions are a decision, not a surprise.
Service details →Sequence the dust
Demolition, wet work, dry work, and the return of furniture happen in an order that keeps one livable path through the house.
Service details →Four steps
How A Butlington Project Runs
01
Email & walk
You describe the room. We reply with questions, then visit to measure and photograph the existing conditions.
02
Outline
You receive a written scope, a material list, a sequence, and a starting figure. Changes happen on paper.
03
The work
Protection goes down first. Trades follow the sequence. You get short email notes when a stage closes.
04
Walkthrough
We review the list together. Touch-ups are scheduled before we call the room complete.
Care After The Tools Leave
Paint, exterior wood, and grout have seasons. We send plain-language care notes if you join the list, and we answer finish questions by email.
Meet the peopleWhat we will not pretend
A home improvement can refresh a room. It cannot erase the structure of the house, the direction of the sun, or the way water wants to leave a shower. When a wish fights the building, we say so. That honesty is the reason return visits are about new rooms, not about repairing a shortcut.
We also keep the house recognizable. If a family has lived with a particular stair rail or a window that frames a tree, we look for a way to improve around it. Novelty is easy. Fit is the harder, better job.
If you are comparing studios, ask who writes the scope, who is on site when tile starts, and how a change is priced. Those three answers tell you more than a mood board.
