Design / Build Studio San Diego · CA 05 / Disciplines

Designing
Spaces, Crafting
Details.

A San Diego workshop blending interior design, custom woodworking, and light metal fabrication—creating cohesive environments where every object feels considered, never accidental.

Selected · Living Composition, La Jolla Modern living room with wood coffee table and natural light
10+ Years of practice
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The Workshop

We design objects as part of a whole—never standalone. A shelf belongs to a wall, a watch box belongs to a morning, a desk belongs to the way you actually work. Our work is the quiet integration of furniture, fixtures, and the quiet tech that runs underneath—into the spaces you inhabit.

05 Disciplines, one team
100% Designed in-house
SD Workshop · San Diego
Services

Five disciplines
under one roof.

We work design-first—drawing before cutting, planning before fabricating. Each engagement begins with how a space lives, then becomes the things that make it possible.

01
Interior Design
& Space Refresh
Reworking existing rooms with intention—layout, materials, light, and the small built-ins that make everything feel resolved.
LayoutMaterialsConcept
02
Custom
Woodworking
Shelving, trays, watch boxes, furniture, cat structures—built from solid hardwoods to live in your space, not on a showroom floor.
OakMapleJoinery
03
Light Metal
Fabrication
Brackets, frames, accents, structural details. Carbon steel treated as quietly as the wood beside it.
Carbon SteelHot-RolledWax Finish
04
Home Office
Design & Build
Workspaces designed around how you actually work—cable runs, lighting, storage, and the desk itself, treated as one piece.
DeskStorageLighting
05
Small Renovation
& Installations
Built-ins, paneling, trim work, and the focused interventions that resolve a room without rebuilding it.
Built-insPanelingTrim
Selected Work

Recent
projects.

A small selection of finished work. Each project begins with how the space is lived in, then becomes the objects that quietly make it possible.

Woodwork Close-up of a wood shelf with curated objects
2025 · La JollaLiving Detail

A pale-oak shelving system, styled as it lives.

Solid-edge oak shelves with hand-finished surfaces. Designed alongside the small objects that occupy them—linen-bound books, ceramic forms, dried botanicals.

Interior Warm minimal interior with wood dining table
2024 · North ParkDining Nook

A small dining room organized around a single sculptural piece.

An arched, hand-cut blackened-wood wall installation anchors the room. Cognac leather seating and a round stone-topped table do the rest of the work.

Wellness Wooden workspace bench beside a window with natural light
2024 · EncinitasMeditation Room

A garden-side retreat built around a single low bench.

A converted accessory unit reimagined as a meditation room—reclaimed teak bench, woven floor cushions, a porthole window framing the courtyard.

Joinery Built-in wood shelf with ceramic vase composition
2025 · Mission HillsDisplay Joinery

A perforated-panel shelf that breathes light through the room.

CNC-cut ash perforations soften the line between display and storage. A single apothecary vessel, a turned wood vessel—everything else allowed to be quiet.

Process

From conversation
to installation.

A clear, collaborative path. Most projects move through five considered stages with our small team—each one in dialogue with the next, never rushed, never skipped.

— 01 —

Consultation

A site visit and conversation. We listen, measure, photograph, and learn how the space is actually used.

— 02 —

Concept & Design

Sketches, mood, and a clear point of view. You see the proposal before any material is ordered.

— 03 —

Material Selection

Wood species, metal finishes, fabric weights—samples in hand, decisions made together.

— 04 —

Build & Fabrication

Made in the San Diego workshop. Joinery, welding, finishing—every step under one roof.

— 05 —

Installation

A clean, careful install. We leave the space ready to live in—not just finished.

Materials

What we
work with.

A tight, considered palette. We return to the same honest materials again and again—oak and maple finished in Rubio Monocoat, steel left to wear, wool that softens with use.

White oak grain swatch
White Oak
Rift Sawn · Rubio Monocoat
Soft maple grain texture swatch
Soft Maple
Plain Sawn · Rubio Monocoat
Cold-rolled carbon steel sheet
Carbon Steel
Cold-Rolled · Wax-Sealed
Smoky marble grey New Zealand wool felt
Grey Wool
New Zealand · Smoky Marble
Start a Project

Tell us about
the space you
want to live in.

We work with a small number of clients each year. The best projects start with a conversation—about the room, the routines, and the things you'd like to be quietly resolved.

Workshop San Diego, California
Email team@jeffreypanstudios.com
Working hours Mon — Fri · 9:00 to 18:00 PT