Skilled in-house designer and office manager. She can provide conceptual design solutions with floor plans and elevation drawings. From these drawings we can produce 3D perspective drawings that are very helpful with envisioning what the room will look like when it is complete. She can start the design process from the beginning with only a customer’s idea or sketch. We can also use architectural blueprints that come from your architect that may lack needed elevations and details. During the design process we will provide finished cabinet drawings that are necessary to clarify details for bidding and visual aids for customers. This also allows the customer to view detailed drawings and make any necessary changes in the drawings prior to placing an order.

My name is Jim Taft. I am the president of Taft Design Works Inc. I have been working and living in the Wood River Valley for the last 35 years and have been coming to visit Sun Valley since 1980. I have been in the construction industry for 51 years. I started working in Southern California as a carpenter and became a general contractor. I  worked on remodeling and new construction projects. In the early 1980’s, I opened a custom cabinet shop in Los Angeles and produced kitchen and bathroom cabinetry for residential projects. In the mid 1980’s, my company was involved with the construction of high-end residential spec houses. In the early 1990’s, I moved my family to Sun Valley, Idaho. I started Taft Construction Inc., which did residential remodeling, additions, and new construction. We started a small in-house cabinet shop to produce cabinetry and woodworking projects for the projects that we were working on. This allowed us to design and build exactly what we needed for our construction projects. By 1999, I had slowly phased out of general contracting and were doing only cabinetry and woodworking projects. We also were very involved in the closet and garage storage projects. I had grown out of our small cabinet shop in Ketchum and needed more room for our growing cabinet and closet business.

In 2001, I built a new light industrial building in Bellevue, Idaho and moved our cabinet and closet business to our new location. This move to a larger shop allowed us to purchase new state-of-the-art woodworking equipment. We purchased a new CNC machine, which is a computer-controlled machine that we use to produce custom cabinetry. This new technology allowed us to build cabinetry with precision accuracy. It also allowed us to produce cabinetry and woodworking projects with less labor. With the use of our new equipment, we have continued to develop new construction techniques for cabinetry, closets, and woodworking projects. We built custom cabinetry in the valley for 20 years.

In 2022, we made a significant change with our business. I decided to discontinue building custom cabinetry and simplify our operation. We had offered prefab/semi-custom cabinetry during the time that we were building our custom cabinetry as a cost saving option. We have decided to continue to design and install prefab/semi-custom cabinetry with the same two companies that we have been using for the last ten years. They are Karman Cabinets and Canyon Creek Cabinets. I chose these two companies because of their high quality and affordable competitive pricing.  They both offered semi-custom options which allowed us to customize the sizing of any of the cabinetry that they offer. We can design and install prefab/semi-custom cabinetry with the flexibility of custom cabinetry sizing.