Live-edge counter
One slab, worked top and edge, with floating shelves.
Live edge, counter
Service area / Little Elm, TX
Barkley Carpentry, custom cabinets & woodwork in Little Elm.
Barkley Carpentry builds custom cabinets, built-ins, mantels and feature walls by hand for homes in Little Elm, Texas, based in nearby Pilot Point.
Built for Little Elm homes
A creek settlement that became a lake town.
Little Elm was established in 1844 by Kit King on the banks of Little Elm Creek, and Denton County's first post office ran out of King's house from 1852, where the stagecoach from Preston Bend to Bird's Fort crossed at King's Crossing. The town now wraps the northern and eastern shores of Lewisville Lake, with Cottonwood Park and its marina in the Lakefront district. Most Little Elm families live in single-family homes in master-planned neighborhoods built between the late 1990s and the late 2010s, and the 2020 census counted 46,453 people.
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Built-ins & media walls
Storage and media walls sized to the room, from home offices to entertainment walls.
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Custom cabinets
Bespoke cabinetry for the rooms a production shop will not touch.
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Mantels & accent walls
The first thing guests see, built to suit the room.
Recent pieces
Barkley's work, built for rooms like these
Fireplace mantel
Worked from a single timber, sized to the room.
Mantel, custom
Wall-to-wall home office desk
A full-width work surface with a built-in cabinet and drawers on full-extension slides.
Built-in, desk
The local difference
Close enough to do it himself.
A cabinet company ships the same box to Little Elm that it ships everywhere. Barkley Carpentry drives over from Pilot Point, looks at your actual wall and your actual light, and builds the piece for that room. Barkley measures it, builds it and installs it himself, so the person who cut the wood is the person who hangs it.
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Barkley Carpentry in Little Elm, the short version
Barkley Carpentry builds custom cabinets, built-ins, mantels and feature walls for Little Elm, Texas homes. Barkley is based in Pilot Point, about 40 minutes away, and measures, builds and installs every Little Elm piece himself.
By the numbers
Little Elm homes at a glance.
$420,700median home value
2011median year built
70%owner-occupied homes
54,820people in town
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 (5-year estimates).
Common questions
Building in Little Elm.
Does Barkley Carpentry build for Little Elm homes near the lake?
Yes. Most Little Elm homes went up in master-planned neighborhoods from the late 1990s on, and Barkley Carpentry builds mantels, media walls and built-ins for rooms that were handed over with bare walls.
How far is Barkley from Little Elm?
Pilot Point is about 40 minutes from Little Elm allowing for traffic, so Barkley comes out to measure, talk the piece through and be on site for the install himself.
What does Barkley build most in Little Elm homes?
Built-ins, media walls, fireplace mantels, accent walls and custom cabinets, plus live-edge pieces when someone wants something one of a kind.