Massapequa, NY · 40.68°N 73.47°W Wed–Sun 10–5:30

about.txt · the drafting desk

Two desks, one lamp, a lot of pencil.Every sheet we send out has been argued over first.

Rhea & Rowan Drafting is a small remote CAD desk in Massapequa. You send the creased sketch and the phone photos; we send back drawings that plot crisp, add up, and get past the permit counter without a second trip.

Drafting desk at dusk with a blue-inked floor plan, architect's scale and a glowing CAD monitor

origin.log

It started with a napkin-sized problem

Rhea spent years at a plotter that never stopped humming, watching good jobs stall because the drawings were nearly right. A door swing that clipped a vanity. A dimension string that missed the wall by an inch and a half. Rowan came up through the field: framing crews, cold mornings, a tape hooked on a sill plate and numbers written straight onto the drywall.

Put those two habits in one room and you get this desk. One of us reads a site the way a carpenter does, the other draws it the way a plan examiner expects to read it. Neither of us signs off until the numbers close the loop.

We work remotely on purpose. The sketch, the photos and the measurements arrive by text or email, the drawings go out as DWG and PDF, and the invoice follows the files. No retainers to untangle, no hourly meter running while you wait for an answer.

desk.rules

Four rules taped above the monitor

  1. Trust the pencil, check the arithmetic

    Your numbers are the truth of the room. We add every string twice, and when 4'-2" plus 9'-6" doesn’t equal the overall, we call you before we draw a line.

  2. Draw like someone will have to build it

    Heavy walls, hairline dimensions, clear callouts. A framer should be able to read the sheet with a coffee in one hand and sawdust on the other.

  3. Name every layer, purge every file

    Your CAD opens clean: layers named sensibly, blocks tidy, no ghost xrefs from last Tuesday. The PDF prints the same on any plotter in the county.

  4. Say the price before the first line

    A flat fee, written down, with the revision rounds already inside it. If the scope grows, you hear about it in a phone call, not on the invoice.

kit.list

What’s on the desk when your job comes in

pencil & paper

Trace, graphite, and a 1/4" scale

Every file starts by hand. We redline your sketch in pencil first, so the questions are on paper before they’re on screen.

cad

Layered DWG, built to your standards

Send your title block and layer list and we draw to them. No standards? We’ll set up a clean, plain set you can keep using.

plot

ARCH D, 24×36, checked at scale

We print a test sheet and measure it with a scale rule, because a drawing that’s off by 2% on paper is off on the job.

phone-first, always

Say hello before you send a single photo.

Call, describe the room, and we’ll tell you what to photograph, what it costs, and when the first draft lands on your screen.

Hours

Wed–Sun 10am–5:30pm
Mon & Tue by appointment

Find the door

100 Alhambra Road
Massapequa, NY 11758

Trace the route to the desk →

Site plan

ALHAMBRA RD
Call (516) 458-5732 Send a sketch