Built for how you
live and work.

AKD Custom Fabrication. Cabinetry, millwork, and built environments, designed and made in our Stratford workshop. Family-owned since 1975.

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Design · Fabricate · Install

Two Pillars. One Standard.

We build 100% of what we install, in our own shop, and we stay on the job from first sketch to final install. Not the last crew through the door, the one team that owns the whole project.

Custom space designers and general contractors: our architectural millwork shop fabricates to your drawings.

Why Families and Businesses Stay With Us

Four things we never outsource.

01

Craftsmanship

Every piece built by the same hands that will build the next one. Skill you can feel in a drawer glide.

02

Attention to Detail

Grain matched, reveals even, hardware set right. The parts most people never notice are the parts we obsess over.

03

Integrity

Honest timelines, honest budgets, honest answers. If something is not right, we make it right.

04

Trust

Fifty years of clients who invite us back and send us their neighbors. We do not take that lightly.

The Studio

Built in Stratford.
Installed Everywhere.

Architectural Kitchen Designs has fabricated in Stratford since 1975. Our facility houses CNC routing, precision cutting, custom finishing, and assembly, all under one roof. Every cabinet, every run of millwork, every built environment begins and ends here.

A new 23,000-square-foot facility is going up in Milford, nearly four times the Stratford floor, with our first real showroom and design space. Room to take on more commercial-scale work without slowing the shop that built this name. Same team, same standard.

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Our Process
01

Consult

We listen. You describe the vision. We assess feasibility, timeline, and approach.

02

Design

3D renderings, material selection, and detailed shop drawings, all reviewed with you.

03

Fabricate

Every piece built by hand in our workshop. CNC precision, artisan finishing.

04

Install

Our team handles installation. One point of contact, one standard of quality.

Design · Build · General Contracting

We build the whole house.

Cabinetry is where we started, not where we stop. As a licensed general contractor with a full fabrication shop, we take on end-to-end remodels and whole-home builds, one team on the hook from demo to the final coat. This home went from a tired ranch to a ground-up rebuild.

This home before, a dated single-story ranchBefore
This home after, a rebuilt two-story colonialAfter
Trusted Partners
Sub-Zero / WolfThermadorMonogramCoveBlumSaliceMilesiML Campbell Sub-Zero / WolfThermadorMonogramCoveBlumSaliceMilesiML Campbell
"We're fortunate that we don't need to chase every job that comes our way. We look for the right fit, working with clients who want to build something exceptional."
Justin Rehm AKD Custom Fabrication
What Clients Say

5.0 across 48 Google reviews.

Every one of them five stars. Five we'd put front and center, in our clients' own words.

★★★★★

"'That's not possible,' said the 10-plus professionals we spoke to before Justin: interior designers, architects, kitchen designers, contractors. From the beginning we said we didn't need a huge kitchen, we needed a creative solution."

Heidi Sullivan · Google review
★★★★★

"Architectural Kitchen Designs is a family business with years of experience and wonderful craftsmanship."

Renee P. · Google review
★★★★★

"You can choose any custom color you wish and the paint finish was flawless."

Google review
★★★★★

"Beautiful cabinets in our new home and great service."

Google review
★★★★★

"He's personable, easy to work with, and his subs were great."

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Ready to Build?

Let's make something exceptional.

A residential kitchen, a commercial space, a run of architectural millwork. Every project starts with a conversation.