Custom Woodwork & Fabrication Services — Kansas City

01Services

What we build.

Custom work in wood and metal — no flat-pack, no approximate.

Custom Woodwork, Furniture, & Shelving

Built-in shelving, custom furniture, and woodwork made to fit your space exactly — solid pieces, built around how you'll use them.

Welding & Metal Fabrication

Gates, railings, brackets, repairs, and one-off steel pieces — fabricated and welded to spec, square and solid.

Fences, Sheds & Garden Structures

Fences, storage sheds, raised beds, planters, and garden structures — sturdy outdoor builds, sized and finished your way.

Small-Batch CNC Production

Precision parts, custom signage, wedding favors, or any short production runs cut on CNC equipment — accurate and consistent.

02Recent Work

From the workshop.

A sample of recent builds. More photos as projects wrap.

Trophy & display cases

Custom display pieces for a softball career — wall-mounted cherry trophy case with peg holders for medals/ribbons and a custom photo-real reproduction pitcher-silhouette inlay, plus a home-plate-shaped trophy stand for separate display.

Trophy case after staining showing peg holders, pitcher silhouette inlay, and #14 plaque

Staining phase — peg holders, pitcher inlay, #14 plaque

Mounted softball trophy case filled with signed game balls

Mounted and filled — a career's worth of game balls

Home plate-shaped trophy stand with peg holders

Simpler home-plate trophy stand variety

Oak nightstand refinish

Solid oak nightstand brought back from glass-ring damage — top sanded to bare wood, restained to match, fresh top coats applied.

Oak nightstand top mid-refinish, grain showing through

Mid-refinish — grain coming back through

Oak nightstand with darker restained top

Restained and top-coated

Heavy-duty shelving

Custom basement storage shelving — pine framing cut to size with keyed mortise-and-tenon joinery, black walnut keys, OSB shelf boards, installed on site.

Pine shelf parts stacked with keyed mortise-and-tenon joinery

Parts stacked — keyed mortise-and-tenon, black walnut keys

Two heavy-duty shelving units installed in basement

Both units installed — basement storage wall

Close-up of the four-tier heavy-duty shelving unit (IMG_0464)

Close-up of the four-tier unit

Whale-tail shelf

Bathroom accent shelf with the distinctive whale-tail side profile — tiers sized for toilet paper rolls and the common countertop accessories.

Side panels in clamps during glue-up

Finished whale-tail bathroom accent shelf, ready to mount

Finished and ready to mount

Oak chessboard

Hand-cut quarter-sawn oak squares fitted into a solid oak frame, glued, finished, and set up for play.

Squares hand-fit, before glue-up and finish

Finished and set up for play

Hydroponic system

Custom hydroponic grow setup — a lumber-framed raised bed lined with pond liner holds the nutrient water; square plywood lids cover the top, with net pots seated in their cutouts to hold each plant.

Hydroponic raised bed in garage, wide view

Raised bed — lumber frame, pond liner

Square plywood lids covering the nutrient reservoir with net pots seated in the cutouts

Lids in place — net pots seated, ready for plants

CNC carved pieces

Custom relief and engraving work cut on CNC equipment — from in-progress on the bed to finished pieces in walnut and baltic birch.

Black walnut relief carving in progress on the CNC router

Relief carving in progress on the CNC bed

Finished Buddha relief carving in walnut

Buddha relief — finished, walnut

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas CNC carving

“Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” — relief sign

Maxwell's Equations CNC engraving in differential and integral form

Maxwell’s Equations — differential and integral form

Periodic table elements CNC-engraved as wood tiles (rotated upright)

Periodic table — engraved element tiles

Three-tier bathroom stand

Custom three-tier bathroom stand — assembled in place over the toilet with bar clamps during glue-up, then sealed, finished, and protective coating applied.

Assembled in place — clamped during glue-up

Three-tier bathroom stand finished and mounted

Finished in Kona (coffee) stain with weathered look

Deck stairs rebuilt/replaced

Rotting deck stairs and underlying framing rebuilt — old orange-brown topcoats and aged lumber replaced with new structure, fresh treads, and clean stringers.

Before — side view from the yard

Deck stairs front view with pergola before rebuild

Before — front view, pergola behind

Underside framing and joists of the deck stairs

Before — underside framing and joists

Rebuilt deck stairs side view, fresh pine treads and stringers

After — side view

Rebuilt deck stairs front view from the yard, pergola behind

After — front view from the yard

Rebuilt deck stairs viewed from the deck, looking down at the landing and treads

After — looking down from the deck

03The Shop

Who you're hiring.

Hire Bonsai Horizons and you're hiring Rich Lowe — the person who measures the job, builds it, and installs it. No crew turnover, no middleman.

Rich is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a career engineer, and it shows in the work: careful measurements, square joints, and a finish that holds up. A bonsai is shaped slowly and deliberately, and built to outlast the hand that shaped it — same standard here, whether it's a bookshelf or a fence line.

ShopBonsai Horizons, LLC

Built byRich Lowe

ServingGreater Kansas City

OwnerVeteran-owned

EstimatesFree

Made to order.
Built to last.