Bay 4, Dickerson Pike, since 2009
Most remodelers are general contractors who buy cabinets. We are a cabinet and stone shop that installs what it builds, and we only point that machinery at one room in the house.
How we got here
Dale Rutherford started building face frames in his father's shop in Antioch in 1995. By 2009 he had spent long enough watching general contractors install somebody else's cabinetry badly to decide the two jobs belonged together. Copper & Co. opened in a single bay on Dickerson Pike with a table saw, a used shaper and one van.
The decision that shaped everything since was narrowing rather than expanding. Bathrooms, basements and additions all got turned down. Everything we bought after that, the CNC, the spray booth, the stone bench, the metal bay, went toward finishing kitchens faster and better than a company that also has to schedule a deck build.
Today the shop runs about 9,000 square feet across four bays and a yard. Five people are on payroll, and the same person who mills your drawer boxes is the one who adjusts them at the 30 day visit.
How we run the job
No budget number leaves this shop before someone has stood in your kitchen with a laser. A phone quote is a guess dressed up as a service.
Boxes, doors, drawers, panels and stone all come out of Bay 4. When something is wrong we fix it on a Tuesday instead of re-ordering it in six weeks.
If your island will not fit, if the quartzite you love etches, if the wall is bearing, you hear it at the survey. Not during demolition.
We file under our own license and meet the inspector. Unpermitted work follows a house around for decades.
A kitchen is a machine you stand inside for an hour a day. Build the machine first, then make it beautiful.
Five people, not a subcontractor list
Design, joinery, stone, finishing and site. Everyone below is on payroll, and the person who mills your cabinetry is the person who hangs it.
CabinetmakingOwner and lead joiner
31 years in the trade
Started building face frames in his father's shop in Antioch in 1995 and opened Bay 4 in 2009. Still runs the shaper on door stock most Mondays because he does not trust anyone else with the profile setup.
Design and draftingDesign lead
12 years in kitchen design
Trained as an interior architect, spent six years specifying commercial casework, and now draws every elevation we build. She is the person who will tell you your 36 inch aisle is a mistake.
Framing and installSite foreman
18 years on site
Runs the site calendar, meets the inspectors and sends your Friday photo update. Has removed enough bearing walls in Green Hills ranches to know where the point loads usually land.
StoneStone fabrication lead
14 years on the bench
Runs the CNC and finishes every edge by hand. She is the reason we can tell you exactly where your seam will land before you pick a slab.
FinishingFinishing and spray
9 years in the booth
Mixes and sprays every door that leaves the shop. Keeps a rack of cured samples going back four years so we can match a repair to a kitchen we built in 2022.
Licensing and cover
Whoever you hire, ask for these four before you sign. License numbers shown here are sample figures for this demonstration site.
License #00-55210 (sample). Current with the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors.
Certificates sent directly from our carrier to you or your HOA on request.
Covering our cabinetry, shop finish, stone fabrication and installation labor.
Design, joinery, stone, finishing and site supervision are employees, not day labor.
Plywood offcuts go to a local makerspace and stone remnants become bar tops and sills.
We hold current permit accounts in both jurisdictions and file electronically.
TN Home Improvement Contractor #00-55210 (sample)
Two hours in your kitchen with a laser and a camera, then a budget band the same week. No pressure and no design fee to find out.
4.9 from 218 homeowners · 412 kitchens since 2009 · Five year warranty
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