Melbourne · Custom Joinery
Precision is a love language.
Kitchens, wardrobes, laundries and libraries — designed, made and installed by one studio for Melbourne homes that expect more than a cabinet.
Inner · North-East · East Melbourne
Explore the rooms01 — The studio
We are a joinery studio, not a cabinet shop. The drawing comes first — then the timber, the stone, and the reveal between them.
ZERO3 designs and makes custom joinery for Melbourne homes: kitchens, wardrobes, laundries, libraries, home offices, living units and cellars. Every project is drawn from the room outwards, detailed to the millimetre, and built by the same people who installed it.
We work best with clients who care how a drawer closes. Function is not a compromise against beauty here — the hinge, the shadow gap and the grain match are the design.
- 13
- Years in joinery
- 7
- Room disciplines
- 1
- Designer, from sketch to install
02 — Room archive
Every room, drawn to its own logic.
Scroll sideways — 09 rooms
03 — The work
The detail is
the argument.
A 3mm shadow gap. A marble edge that lands on timber without a trim. A door that sits flush to the ceiling because the plaster was set out around it.
Open the portfolioHoned marble · Smoked oak · 3mm reveal
Solid oak shelves · Library rail
04 — Robert, founder
“I came to joinery from fashion. Fifteen years ago I was building my own home and couldn’t find a single joiner excited by it. I thought: I can do this with more care than that.”
Robert trained as a fashion designer — pattern making, fit, finish. Thirteen years ago he moved that discipline into cabinetry, where a millimetre is still a millimetre and the client still has to live inside the result.
Read the studio storyIn their words
Feedback from the people who live with the work every day.
We had lived with a bad kitchen for nine years. ZERO3 measured the room twice before they drew anything, and it shows — every drawer lands where my hands expect it, and the island still feels generous in a narrow terrace. The installers cleaned up better than we did.
The dressing room is the first thing we show people who visit. Full-height doors that sit dead flush to the ceiling, lighting that comes on as you walk in, and a place for every pair of shoes we own. Nothing was left as a compromise.
I asked for a desk and a wall of books. What I got was a room I actually want to work in — the desk top set proud of the carcass, cables gone, and shelves that haven't sagged a millimetre under the weight of the art books.
05 — Process
Five steps,
no surprises.
One studio, one point of contact, from the first measure to the final adjustment.
The full processA conversation
We start in your home or on site with your architect. What you need the room to do, how you live in it, and what frustrates you about the joinery you have now.
Measure & draw
Laser measure, then drawings. Elevations, sections and a reflected ceiling plan, set out to the millimetre against your plaster, stone and appliance schedules.
Detail & materials
Samples in your hand, not on a screen. Board, veneer, stone edge, handle, hinge and finish resolved — including where two materials meet.
The workshop
Cut, edged and assembled by our own cabinetmakers. Everything dry-fitted before it is wrapped, so the site visit is an installation and not a workaround.
Install & handover
Our own installers, a clean site, and a walkthrough of every door, drawer and appliance. Then we come back once the house has settled.
06 — Service area
Melbourne’s inner, north-eastern and eastern suburbs.
Inner
- Fitzroy
- Carlton
- Collingwood
- Richmond
- South Yarra
- Prahran
- Armadale
- Toorak
North-East
- Ivanhoe
- Eaglemont
- Heidelberg
- Rosanna
- Bulleen
- Balwyn
- Doncaster
- Templestowe
East
- Hawthorn
- Kew
- Camberwell
- Canterbury
- Surrey Hills
- Glen Iris
- Malvern
- Blackburn
Further out? We take on selected projects across greater Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula — ask us before you rule it out.
Start here
Tell us about the room you keep thinking about.
A short, honest conversation is how every ZERO3 project begins. Give us the room, the suburb and a budget range — we’ll tell you how we’d approach it.