norman leigh design

Some spaces need a custom piece for the perfect fit. 👌

We’re obsessed with the warmth of this wood vanity and the integrated drawer pulls add the perfect modern edge to a timeless look.

A built-in library in warm wood tones turns storage into a statement. 📚✨

This piece is made with stained rift white oak and a painted waterfall countertop, bringing character, warmth, and timeless functionality to the space.

Space designed by NMK. Design Studio, brought to life by Norman Leigh.

We didn’t want this holiday season to slip away without posting a little something to say THANK YOU for your support this past year. What a year it was.

Owning our own business is amazing. Challenging. Rewarding. Exhilarating. Exhausting. It’s all of those things, in the course of every single day. 2024 was an intense year. We are watching our business grow, looking back to the beginning with gratitude and into the future in awe. But as anyone who’s ever owned their own business knows, growth can be challenging. We choose to continue and push ourselves past our limits because we love what we do. It’s an honor to create things... to take a pile of sticks and turn them into something beautiful that has a purpose. Something that truly has an impact on clients’ lives and the way they function in their home or business.

When you work for yourself, it’s easy to plow your way through time. Hours disappear into days, days into weeks, and suddenly another year has gone by. We have so many completed projects from 2024 to share but haven’t had the physical or mental space to do that yet. We are very proud of the work we created so we will strive to do that soon.

In the meantime, we had some new photos taken in our space and wanted to share. Happy New Year. Thank you for the support. We are forever grateful. ❤️

📸: Yellow Brick Home

White oak floating shelves are always a good idea. Thrilled to be part of this dreamy kitchen refresh at in New Buffalo, MI. ✨🌊

Created these custom maple slatted planters for and they filled them with plant perfection. 🌿🌿🌿

The perfect breakfast nook table. 💕

48” round solid white oak top with beveled edge and a modern tapered pedestal base. Finished with Mist by .

We’ve done several versions of this table over the years (shoutout to the OG model with 💛), but this is the first with the tapered base. It took a little extra engineering work but we are super pleased without how it turned out.

Thank you Lauren & Shep for choosing us to create this special piece for your new home.

Excited to share another project, which was completed last fall. This built-in is completely different from the last one we shared, but we love it just as much.

The client was looking for something modern, with floating shelves and floating lower cabinets. We absolutely love the clean lines on this and walnut was the perfect choice to complement and warm up the fireplace. Plus, the grain matching on the cabinet doors is 🔥🔥🔥.

Swipe through for a before to see the full transformation. ✨

Thank you Krista & Peter, we really enjoyed working with you to bring this vision to life!

Hi! 👋 It’s been booked + busy lately and we’ve fallen a bit behind on sharing here. 🙈

We’ve completed some really cool projects already this year, including this beautiful built-in. This beast of a piece stands at 12’ long x 9’ tall, with a combination of stained white oak uppers/shelving and painted lower cabinets/drawers. All tied together with custom trim and cove moulding to give it that true built-in feel.

Working closely with the client, the design really evolved throughout the process. There were a lot of variables to work through — fixing a massively bowed wall, moving outlets / thermostat, adding library lights, moving/remounting the tv… the list goes on! But we are all so thrilled with how everything came together. 🙌

Hoping to also put a reel together to document some of the fabrication process but in the meantime, swipe through for some finished photos, as well as a before pic to see the incredible transformation. ✨

**client was still waiting on the door hardware to be delivered when these photos were taken 🙃

Some pops of 🌿🌿🌿 for this wintery day.

A fun project with and . Custom walnut frames filled with preserved moss for a law office in downtown Chicago