Designing calm, honest rooms for homes, bars and small hotels, then building every piece in our own workshop.
Rooms built + to measure
We design thoughtful, hard-working interiors and build the joinery that makes each room feel made for you.
We are Millwork, an interior architecture studio and joinery workshop in Porto. Our work sits between the drawing table and the bench, where a good plan meets wood cut to the millimetre.
We start every project by listening to how a room is really used, then shape layouts, materials and built-in pieces that look calm, work hard every day and age well.
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Calm, hard-working rooms and joinery built around the way you live and host
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Residential
We plan whole flats and houses, or the one room that never worked. Layout, light, materials and every built-in piece are drawn together, so the home feels calm and every cupboard has a reason to be there.
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Hospitality
We shape bars, restaurants and small hotels that survive a full Saturday night and still look calm on Monday morning. Counters, booths and rooms are built to be touched, cleaned and loved by guests for years.
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Made to measure
Already working with an architect? We take the drawings and make the joinery in solid wood, veneer and lacquer, then our own team fits it on site, levels every door and adjusts each drawer until it closes on its own.
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(01) Survey
We visit the room, measure every wall twice and note each pipe, socket and crooked corner before any idea is drawn.
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(02) Design
We turn what we learned into plans, honest sketches and real samples on your table, so every choice is clear and intentional.
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(03) Workshop
We build every piece in our own workshop in Porto, checking joints, finishes and hardware long before anything leaves the bench.
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(04) Fit-out
We fit, level and adjust everything on site with our own team, then clean up and hand over a room that is ready to be lived in.
“They measured our crooked old kitchen better than the builder who made it. Every drawer closes like it was always there, and the room finally feels like ours.”
Clara BettencourtHomeowner, Casa Carvalho
“Fourteen rooms in one winter and no drama at all. Guests touch the cane doors and ask who made them, which is the best review a small hotel can hope for.”
Tomás ReixaOwner, Hotel Barro
“We came with an architect's drawings and a tight opening date. Millwork built the whole bar in six weeks, fitted it in two nights and never missed a detail.”
Leonor AbreuFounder, Mesa Escura
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rooms finished
Homes, bars and hotel rooms designed and built from the first sketch to the last screw.
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of joinery built
Kitchens, wardrobes, counters and wall panels made in our own workshop in Porto.
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clients come back
Most clients return for a second room, a new venue or a friend's flat.
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years at the bench
A long record of rooms that still close, open and age the way they should.
