LONG ISLAND: Gifted Hands

By Bianca Major Photographs Courtesy Of Patrick Burrows, Adon-is Luxury and Bianca Major

While growing up on Long Island lent to “learning a trade” after completing high school, Burrows relocated to Nassau. Getting work in the big city soon turned into finding more work after his regular schedule.

“It quickly grew to getting calls almost on a daily basis to take on a project,” Burrows said about the growing stages of his work. From a hand-carved mahogany cutting board to furniture or customized hand-built kitchen cabinets, to stone cut walls, everything is original.

He said, “For a first-time customer, I’d say it’s strictly custom handcrafted and they won’t be able to find a purchased piece exactly the same which makes it that much more unique!”

A husband and father of two, Roberts has ten years’ experience in the field of carpentry under his belt and only intends to grow his business in the future.

“By profession, I am a builder, and specifically a finish carpenter,” he said.

He noted how he became “fascinated” with the construction field, shortly after graduating high school, and very soon after got his first local construction job.

“Over the years, I became more and more drawn to the finish carpentry aspect of building, although I do love building from the ground up,” he said.

With a name like “This Is It Woodworks,” I had to ask Burrows how he came up with such an intriguing company name. “I’ve always been told that the business name is quite a unique one and no one really knows how it came about, but it came about like this. When I was a child, at times, I would be around when my father would have persons visit him and I can clearly remember that during the conversation there would be something that he would agree with what the other person was saying, his response would always be, ‘This is it,’” he explained.

“Now that he has since passed away, there were many other things I remembered about him, but that particular response stood out to me as one of the main things I can remember and thought it would be the best way to remember him in everything I do.”

“In recent years, I decided to venture into a small business, building cabinetry and furniture for residential and commercial buildings.”

Passionate about his trade and skills, Roberts encourages all to support small local businesses.

Everything produced at his woodworking studio is handcrafted with real wood, built to each client’s specifications.

As the grandson of businessman, the late Henry Major, of Clarence Town, and his parents Sharon and James Roberts, Roberts was naturally born with a dedication to hard work and hands to build fine wood works. UA