Best Built-In Before and Afters 2012

Carpentry Masters

With our busy lives, getting organized and creating additional storage can be a breath of fresh air to our hectic daily schedules. Whether it was extra shelving for an entertainment center, more workspace in the kitchen, or a comfy reading nook, the entries in our fifth-annual Reader Remodel Contest showed us that with a lot of work and extra attention to detail, built-ins can be functional and look nice, too. Here are the finalists, chosen by the editors at This Old House.

After you've taken a look at these built-in and woodworking projects, you can see all of this year's entries here.