For over 30 years, Dave Day has been providing custom kitchens, bathroom vanities, libraries, built-ins, display cases, closets, and other various items too numerous to list.

Dave has always avoided having a product line, due to the constraints it places upon you.

Under the name of “D.a.Day Inc”, he has made nothing but one-of-a-kind products, custom created to match the needs and tastes of not only the people with homes and businesses in the greater Vermont/New Hampshire area, but has created custom work to be shipped to out of the way places as far as Bermuda and beyond.

Even though the focus is on home furnishings, his work has included commercial fixtures for stores on Broadway in NYC, Chestnut Hill in Massachusetts, and more. Everything that leaves the shop in downtown Stowe, Vermont is truly a unique creation.

Cherry belection moulded panelling in Elmore Vt

Contemporary vanity Waterbury, Vt

Carved oak Gothic Dole cupboard. You can see this one in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”

With the availability of many different materials (not always necessarily wood), and ideas, we are only limited by your imagination.

Having the privilege to learn the hands on skills at a time when there were plenty of older craftsmen around, and also being in the trades during the information boom has been very beneficial. Great new ideas are easily shared via our new communication media, but still, best implemented with old school craftsmanship.

You won’t find an automated CNC machine down at the shop spitting out pieces, or a computer that’s filling a space with a pre-programmed layout. Each project is hand-built according to a layout that has been conceived by the human brain. It’s absolutely fascinating to see thoughts become tangible!

Having a dozen years in carpentry before even beginning the cabinetry trade, Dave has a combined 42 years of woodworking. It has truly been his only career, unless you’d like to count some of the odd-jobs while traveling (fruit picking, commercial fishing, back country ranger, bell ringer, etc.).

On one of his recent forays, Dave, being a musician as well as a woodworker, decided to go see what made his violin work, and why. He then enrolled himself into a violin making school in England, and would stay until he made his own. Four months later, he returned with a beautiful Strad copy valued at more than the cost of his trip.

This experience magnified all of the woodworking skills he possessed (along with acquiring a few more) and shed new light on every seemingly mundane task like sharpening, marking, measuring, and the use of hand tools over machines. This project, contrary to what one would think, was rather humbling as opposed to creating any ego driven artisan attitude, and re-enforced his belief in the importance of smaller details.

Spend more time cutting and fitting, and you’ll spend less time filling and sanding. Accuracy is paramount.

With the availability of many different materials (not always necessarily wood), and ideas, we are only limited by your imagination.

Having the privilege to learn the hands on skills at a time when there were plenty of older craftsmen around, and also being in the trades during the information boom has been very beneficial. Great new ideas are easily shared via our new communication media, but still, best implemented with old school craftsmanship.

You won’t find an automated CNC machine down at the shop spitting out pieces, or a computer that’s filling a space with a pre-programmed layout. Each project is hand-built according to a layout that has been conceived by the human brain. It’s absolutely fascinating to see thoughts become tangible!

Having a dozen years in carpentry before even beginning the cabinetry trade, Dave has a combined 42 years of woodworking. It has truly been his only career, unless you’d like to count some of the odd-jobs while traveling (fruit picking, commercial fishing, back country ranger, bell ringer, etc.).

On one of his recent forays, Dave, being a musician as well as a woodworker, decided to go see what made his violin work, and why. He then enrolled himself into a violin making school in England, and would stay until he made his own. Four months later, he returned with a beautiful Strad copy valued at more than the cost of his trip.

This experience magnified all of the woodworking skills he possessed (along with acquiring a few more) and shed new light on every seemingly mundane task like sharpening, marking, measuring, and the use of hand tools over machines. This project, contrary to what one would think, was rather humbling as opposed to creating any ego driven artisan attitude, and re-enforced his belief in the importance of smaller details.

Spend more time cutting and fitting, and you’ll spend less time filling and sanding. Accuracy is paramount.