Bloomfield, New YorkRochester & the Finger Lakes

Custom homes and millwork.

Timber frames, cabinetry and furniture for houses across Rochester and the Finger Lakes. Now small homes on your own land.

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Forty years of building & woodworking

Every beam is a decision. Jim makes them one at a time, in a shop in Bloomfield.

Every room on this page is a real house in the Rochester and Finger Lakes region, built by Jim.

What Jim builds

Four kinds of work, one standard.

  • 01

    Custom Homes

    Prairie, Craftsman, lake house, farmhouse. Jim runs the job and swings the hammer.

  • 02

    Timber Frame & Millwork

    Post-and-beam interiors, staircases, wall panels, art-glass frames, historic windows.

  • 03

    Small Homes & ADUs

    A smaller home, made with care. Family space or independent living, subject to local approval.

  • 04

    Renovation & Cabinetry

    Kitchens, built-ins, libraries and furniture. Cherry, walnut, Sapele, ash, fir, maple.

The walk-through

Step through seven rooms.

Living room with exposed fir timber frame, craftsman lantern and built-in bookcases
Living roomFir timber frame · art-glass transoms
Sunroom with mahogany-toned window frames and art-glass transoms, Baum House, Rochester
SunroomBaum House, Rochester · art-glass transoms
Sitting room with fir ceiling beams, tiled fireplace and glazed bookcases, Baum House, Rochester
Fireplace roomBaum House, Rochester · fir beams, glazed bookcases
Prairie-style dining room with oak millwork, built-in sideboard and leaded clerestory windows
Dining roomPrairie style · quartersawn oak, leaded glass
Living room with inlaid oak floor border, art-glass windows and Arts and Crafts furniture
Living roomInlaid oak floor · art-glass windows
Open kitchen under a fir post-and-beam frame with custom cabinets and granite counters
Timber-frame kitchenFir posts and beams · custom cabinetry
Kitchen with custom wood cabinetry, soapstone counters, apron sink and leaded windows
KitchenCustom cabinetry · soapstone, apron sink
See all the work

Small homes & ADUs

The same craft. A smaller footprint.

The same care, in a smaller house. Start with your property, local approvals and a conversation with Jim.

  • Accessory dwelling unit / guest house
  • In-law or caregiver suite
  • Rental use where locally permitted
  • Same timber, same cabinetry, smaller footprint

Every property is different. Size, scope and construction method are determined together.

Ask about a small home

How it goes

Listen. Draw. Build. Finish.

  1. I

    Listen

    A walk through the house or the land. Jim asks more than he talks.

  2. II

    Draw

    Drawings and full-size mock-ups. You approve the real thing, not a sketch.

  3. III

    Build

    Cut and fitted in the Bloomfield shop, then brought to your house.

  4. IV

    Finish

    Oil, wax or lacquer, chosen for the wood. The last coat goes on in place.

Hand-cut dovetail joinery from Jim’s shop

About Jim

Timber, cherry, and a long patience.

Jim Liebel builds houses and the millwork inside them from a shop in Bloomfield, New York, half an hour from Rochester: timber frames, Greene & Greene wall panels, Sapele staircases, cherry libraries, screen doors, historic windows.

Forty years of building and woodworking have shaped an eye for the details: a cabinet that fits, a timber joint that belongs, a room that feels settled.

Now the same shop is turning to small homes and accessory dwellings, built as carefully as furniture.

Based in
Bloomfield, NY
Serving
Rochester & the Finger Lakes
Experience
40 years of building & woodworking
Woods on hand
Cherry, walnut, Sapele, ash, fir, maple, oak
  • 40 yrsof building houses, shaping wood and learning the craft
  • 10'maple butcher block, oiled and set by four strong men
  • 12'solid cherry desk top, one piece
  • 5½"square solid Sapele posts and balusters on a Greene & Greene stair
  • Hand-cutdovetails, pegged joinery, oil finishes

Shop measurements from Jim's own captions on his project photographs. Experience confirmed by Jim.

Contact

Tell Jim about the room.

A kitchen, a staircase, a whole house, a small one out back. Share a few lines with Jim to start a conversation.

Shop
Bloomfield, NY 14469
Area served
Rochester, Canandaigua, Conesus and the Finger Lakes
Call Jim · (585) 721-9007