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Custom cabinetry · New Orleans

Cabinetry, kitchens, and millwork, drawn and built in one New Orleans shop.

Andrew Nixon Millworks designs and fabricates custom work for interior designers and private clients across Greater New Orleans. Design, joinery, finishing, and installation all happen in house.

Kitchen in rift-sawn white oak with beaded cabinet doors, a reeded island, and a long run of tall cabinetry
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Custom white oak double vanity with brass fittings and a stone top, installed in a finished bath

The shop

Every piece is made under one roof, beneath the raised house, by the same hands that drew it.

Cabinet fronts run continuously so the grain carries from door to drawer. Frames are joined with floating tenon joinery. Drawers are built with traditional dovetail joinery. Those details take longer, and they are the reason the work lasts.

Live from the shop

From the shop, live

Live from
the shop.

Ranked by engagement on @andrewnixonmillworks.

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Studio view, visible only to Andrew. Pinned posts always lead. Hidden posts never appear publicly. Raise moves a post above the one before it. Popularity ranks; Andrew decides.

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What we build

Original designs, or yours, built to the same standard.

Andrew designs projects himself and fabricates work drawn by architects and interior designers. Either way, the shop handles it from the first board to the final fitting.

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Andrew Nixon working at a bench in the shop

Andrew Nixon

He started in his grandfather's woodshop at five, learned moulding knives and freestanding stairs from his mentors at Gus Hartdegen & Sons, and got sober through Bridge House. Today the shop sits under a raised house he bought and rebuilt.

Read his story
Kitchen in rift-sawn white oak with beaded cabinet doors and a reeded island

Portfolio · Six projects

The work,
up close.

Kitchens, built-ins, furniture, and millwork from the shop under the raised house. Each piece is listed with its scope, its materials, and the detail that made it worth doing. Clients stay private.

Species
Walnut and white oak, by preference
Joinery
Floating tenon joinery, traditional dovetail joinery
Fronts
Continuous, no line between boxes

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Selected projects

Described by the work itself.

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Close up

The details you only see from a foot away.

Cabinet fronts run continuously, with no visible line between boxes. Frames are joined with floating tenon joinery. Drawers are built with traditional dovetail joinery. Mouldings come off knives Andrew learned to cut at Gus Hartdegen & Sons.

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Portfolio focus follows the top Instagram posts by engagement. These six are candidates until Andrew confirms the final list of 6 to 12 and supplies camera originals. Furniture pieces carry an "Inquire to purchase" line; there is no checkout.

Services

Everything made in house, from cabinetry to the last moulding.

White oak vanity with U-shaped drawers pulled open around the plumbing

Andrew designs projects himself and also builds from drawings supplied by architects and designers. No minimum project size. Fit matters more than budget.

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Pending client confirmation: historic restoration is not listed on the current site. It stays here only if Andrew confirms it as a service.

About

A woodworker shaped by two grandfathers and the craftsmen of Gus Hartdegen & Sons.

Andrew Nixon standing beside a curved walnut kitchen island

The path

Andrew was five when he started in his grandfather's woodshop. Both grandfathers knew the trade: one kept that backyard shop, the other was a contractor who taught him how houses go together.

By eight he was doing labor on job sites. At fourteen he was working real carpentry beside his grandfather on renovations. At seventeen he joined AWD Millwork, and at eighteen he started his first company, Twin Construction. Through school he was in gifted art programs, and he still paints. Wood became the medium.

He built wooden boats with his grandfather in the woodshop, and he has built houses from the ground up, additions and renovations included. That range is why he understands a jobsite a lot better than someone who only builds cabinets: he has done the work on every side of where a cabinet lands.

Around twenty-five he went to work at Gus Hartdegen & Sons and found out how much he had left to learn. His mentors there taught him to cut the knives that make mouldings and to build freestanding staircases. He calls it a different level of carpentry.

He went on to found Andrew Nixon Millworks and to work with leading architects, interior designers, and builders across New Orleans. He favors walnut and white oak, and the details he cares about are the ones you only see up close: continuous cabinet fronts with no visible line between boxes, floating tenon joinery, and traditional dovetail joinery.

To confirm with Andrew: the year Andrew Nixon Millworks was founded.

Recovery

The work and the recovery are the same discipline.

Through his early career Andrew was also struggling with drug addiction. At thirty-three he reached a turning point, went to Bridge House, and did the work to get clean. He has been sober for more than a decade.

His next step in rebuilding was buying a raised house and building his own shop underneath it. He shares this part of his story because, in his words, it might help somebody else with the same problem see that you can come out of it.

He also teaches. A saying from recovery guides how he passes the craft on: you have to give it away to keep it.

Awaiting Andrew's approval of this wording. Facts are drawn from his 2024 New Orleans Homes Design Masters feature.

The shop

The shop sits beneath a raised house Andrew bought and rebuilt. He and three colleagues handle design, milling, joinery, finishing, and assembly there.

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Black bar cabinet with gold-leaf ornament standing in the shop
Carved wooden post on a machine in the shop
Curved footboard of a child's bed, finished in deep red

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Apparel

The shop polo,
in black.

The AN monogram and the Andrew Nixon Millworks lettering, embroidered at the chest. A large printed mark on the back, with the shop's name, city, and number.

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Black shop polo, front: AN monogram embroidered at the left chest
Front · embroidered, left chest
Black shop polo, back: large AN mark printed with the shop name, city, and number
Back · large print

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Garment
Black polo
Front
AN monogram over Andrew Nixon Millworks, embroidered
Back
Large AN monogram, Andrew Nixon Millworks, New Orleans, Louisiana, 504.230.9352, printed
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Tell us about the project.

The fastest way to start is a phone call. If you prefer to write, the form below reaches Andrew directly.

We work across Greater New Orleans and travel up to 60 miles for projects. Farther away? Ask anyway.

Thank you. Andrew will be in touch.

Replies usually come by phone during shop hours, 8am to 5pm.

Start with a conversation about the room.

Call 504.230.9352 or write to andrewnixonmillworks@gmail.com. Hours 8am to 5pm.