Makena Oceanfront Townhome: Finish Details and Upgrades
Finish installation and upgrades in a 5,750 sq ft oceanfront townhome in Makena. Over several visits between 2023 and 2025, we handled the details that decide how a finished home looks and works day to day.
Beacon Construction served as general contractor, working with interior designer LWD Designs.
What we did:
- Cabinet hardware: installed all pulls and handles throughout the home, and adjusted doors and drawer fronts to bring gaps and reveals into line.
- Docking Drawer outlets: in-drawer power in every nightstand and in the kitchen.
- Nightstand glass tops: templated, commissioned and installed custom low-iron glass tops.
- Bathroom mirrors: commissioned and installed custom mirrors and mirror frames in the bathrooms, plus floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the master closet.
- Bathroom accessories in all five and a half bathrooms.
- Master bath retrofit: a second vanity, with sink and countertop, in place of the standard bathtub.
- Mother-of-pearl wallcovering prep: living and dining room walls prepared and primed, with Fry Reglet aluminum edge trim installed for the wallcovering to finish against.
- Statement chandeliers in the entry foyer and dining room.
What made it demanding:
Almost everything. This was a finished, furnished second home, used by the owners between our visits, with delicate surfaces throughout, so every task had to be done without leaving a mark.
- Protection: we wrapped the house as if it were being crated for shipping, covering floors, the floating stair and its glass rail for the duration of the work.
- Surgical demolition: adding backing for the bathroom accessories meant opening finished walls in small, precise cuts and restoring them.
- The foyer chandelier: a very expensive fixture, hung from scaffolding we set up to reach the double-height foyer ceiling.
- Mirror frames that close tight: the custom frames are deeper than the mirrors, so we installed plywood backing boards that double as spacers. The mirror face bears hard against the inside edge of the frame while the frame closes tight to the wall.
- Wallcovering prep: walls trued, primed and trimmed with aluminum reglet so the mother-of-pearl finishes against a crisp edge.
- Hardware that lines up: every pull laid out and leveled before drilling.
- Coordination: sequencing our work with the other trades in a finished home that the owners used between our visits.
Site protection: floating stair wrapped
Temporary protection on the floating stair and glass rail. Protecting finished work is part of how we run every job.
Floors and stair protected during the work
Floor and stair protection kept in place while we worked in the finished home.
Glass stair rail wrapped for protection
The glass rail and treads stayed protected for the duration of our work.
Finished panels protected while work continues
Finished cabinet panels in the laundry room taped and protected while work went on around them.
Tall cabinet marked for hardware layout
Tape marks the pull locations on a tall cabinet before drilling, so every pull lines up across the fronts.
Vanity fronts marked for hardware
Hardware locations laid out with tape on a vanity before drilling.
Fronts flagged for adjustment
Blue tape flags doors and drawer fronts that needed adjusting to bring the gaps and reveals into line.
Tall cabinet fronts flagged for adjustment
Tape flags tall cabinet doors and drawer fronts to be adjusted.
Vanity doors flagged for adjustment
Vanity doors flagged with tape before adjusting the gaps between them.
Vanity fronts flagged for alignment
Drawer and door fronts on a vanity flagged for alignment.
Kitchen cabinet fronts flagged for adjustment
Kitchen doors and drawer fronts flagged with tape before adjusting.
Tall panel door flagged for adjustment
A tall panel door flagged with tape for adjustment.
Installing pulls on a vanity
Fitting pulls on the vanity drawers.
Installing a drawer pull
Mounting a pull on a drawer front, centered and square to the front.
Leveling pulls before fastening
Each pull is checked with a level before it is fastened.
Built-in with pulls installed
A built-in with its hardware installed and fronts aligned.
Vanity with hardware installed
A vanity with pulls installed and fronts aligned.
Built-in drawers with pulls installed
Built-in drawers with pulls installed and lined up.
Built-in shelving and drawers with pulls
Open shelving and drawers with their hardware installed.
Double vanity with hardware installed
A double vanity with all pulls installed and fronts aligned.
Tall cabinet with full-length pulls
Full-length pulls on tall cabinet doors, aligned door to door.
Wet bar with hardware installed
Wet bar cabinets with their hardware installed.
Drawer bank with pulls aligned
Drawer pulls aligned across a drawer bank.
Kitchen tall cabinets with hardware installed
Kitchen tall cabinets and appliance panels with their pulls installed.
Docking Drawer outlet fitted in a drawer box
A Docking Drawer in-drawer outlet fitted into a drawer box before the drawer goes back in.
Power cord routed through a grommet
A grommet keeps the power feed for the in-drawer outlet neat.
Template for a nightstand glass top
A template made on the nightstand to fabricate its custom low-iron glass top.
Low-iron glass top installed on a nightstand
The custom low-iron glass top, made from our template, set on the nightstand.
Glass top edge detail
Detail of the low-iron glass top following the nightstand’s rounded profile.
Nightstand drawer with in-drawer outlet
A finished nightstand with a Docking Drawer outlet inside the drawer, keeping chargers off the top.
Nightstand drawer with built-in charging outlet
A Docking Drawer outlet inside a nightstand drawer.
In-drawer outlet in a nightstand
Power inside the drawer keeps chargers off the nightstand top.
Mirror layout measured around pendant lights
Measuring the vanity wall to size a custom framed mirror around the pendant lights.
Powder room mirror layout
Laying out the mirror size and position on a powder room wall.
Vanity wall measured for a custom mirror
Measurements for a custom mirror over a double vanity.
Mirror size laid out between pendants
The mirror size laid out between the pendant lights before the frame was commissioned.
Custom mirror frame corner sample
A corner sample of the metal mirror frame, checked before the frames were commissioned.
Backing board set for a framed mirror
Plywood backing boards also act as spacers: they make up for the frame’s depth, so the mirror bears hard against the frame’s inside edge while the frame closes tight to the wall.
Adhesive on the mirror backing board
Mirror adhesive applied to the backing board before the mirror was set.
Finished vanity mirror with pendant lights
A custom framed mirror over the vanity, sized around the pendant lights.
Framed mirror reflecting the vanity and shower
A finished framed mirror, with the shower reflected beyond.
Custom framed mirror over a double vanity
A custom framed mirror over a double vanity.
Vanity mirror installed
A custom mirror installed over the vanity.
Framed mirror over a double vanity
A custom framed mirror installed over a double vanity.
Custom framed mirror, second bathroom
A custom framed mirror in another of the home’s bathrooms.
Framed mirror installed tight to the wall
The custom frame closes tight to the wall, with the mirror bearing on its inside edge.
Framed mirror and vanity
A custom framed mirror over the vanity.
Custom mirror frame closing tight to the wall
Backing boards set the mirror depth so the frame meets the wall with no gap.
Master closet measured for full-height mirrors
Measuring the master closet for floor-to-ceiling mirrors.
Closet wall measured for mirrors
Measurements for the full-height mirrors in the master closet.
Floor-to-ceiling mirror in the master closet
A full-height mirror installed in the master closet.
Full-height closet mirror
Floor-to-ceiling mirror in the master closet, reflecting the room.
Closet mirror meeting the ceiling
The closet mirror runs to the ceiling.
Master bath before the second vanity
The master bath where a standard tub was planned, before we retrofitted a second vanity.
Second vanity cabinets ready to install
Cabinets for the second vanity in the master bath, wrapped and ready to install.
Second vanity going in where the tub was
The new second vanity partway through installation in the master bath.
Second vanity set, tops to come
The second vanity set in the master bath where the tub was planned, with countertop and sink to come.
Robe hooks after backing was added
Robe hooks mounted after we opened the finished wall, added backing and patched it, ahead of final paint.
Installing a towel bar on a vanity side
Positioning a towel bar on the side of a vanity, with tape marking the layout.
Towel ring installed
One of the bathroom accessories we installed across the home’s five and a half bathrooms.
Toilet paper holder mounted on a vanity side
A toilet paper holder and spare-roll holder mounted on the vanity side panel.
Hooks and towel bar on a wallcovered wall
Robe hooks and a towel bar installed on a wallcovered bathroom wall.
Shower hooks below the niche
Hooks set in a line below the shower niche.
Shower hooks aligned under a niche
Hooks aligned under the niche in another shower.
Living room wall before wallcovering prep
The living room wall before preparation for the mother-of-pearl wallcovering.
Wall prep with cabinetry protected
Preparing the walls for wallcovering, with the cabinetry below protected.
Aluminum reglet trim at a wall edge
Fry Reglet aluminum edge trim installed for the wallcovering to finish against.
Reglet trim and primer on the wall
Edge trim installed and the wall primed for the mother-of-pearl wallcovering.
Wall corner trimmed and primed
A wall corner trimmed and primed, ready for wallcovering.
Mother-of-pearl wallcovering at the reglet edge
The finished mother-of-pearl wallcovering stopping cleanly against the aluminum reglet.
Wallcovering meeting the trim edge
Detail of the wallcovering finishing against the trim.
Mother-of-pearl wall with controls in place
The finished mother-of-pearl wall, with controls set back in place.
Wallcovering cut around a keypad
The wallcovering finished neatly around a lighting keypad.
Dining room: mother-of-pearl wall and chandelier
The finished dining room, with the mother-of-pearl wall and the statement chandelier.
Foyer statement chandelier installed
The statement chandelier we installed in the entry foyer.