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Belak Woodworking is an owner-operated, locally owned custom woodworking shop in the Kansas City metro, founded more than 30 years ago by European-trained craftsman Nick Hadzhiev. The shop designs, builds, finishes, and installs custom cabinetry and handcrafted furniture — built-in cabinets, kitchen cabinets, bedroom and living-room furniture, bathroom vanities, office desks, bookcases, and custom closets — from a workshop at 14104 W 107th St in Lenexa, KS, blending European technique with American practicality.123

Description

Belak Woodworking is a custom woodworking shop in Lenexa, Kansas, in the Kansas City metro. It specializes in designing, building, finishing, and installing custom cabinetry and handcrafted wood furniture for homes and offices.13 The catalog spans built-in cabinets and shelving, kitchen cabinets, bedroom and living-room furniture, bathroom and double-vanity tops, office desks and workstations, library bookcases, media cabinets and TV media lifts, and custom bedroom closets.13

The shop markets itself as locally owned and “Made in KC,” handling the full process from design through craftsmanship, finishing, and installation, and noting availability of nationwide and international shipping.13 Owner Nick Hadzhiev describes the work as combining European style and woodworking technique with American values and standards.1

Ownership and history

Belak Woodworking was founded by Nick Hadzhiev, who is identified as owner across the official site and third-party business listings.14 The official About page states the business was founded “over 30 years ago,” placing its origin in roughly the early-to-mid 1990s; an exact founding year is not published on the available sources.

Per the company’s own account, Hadzhiev grew up “in a mountainous, wooded region” and developed an early curiosity about trees and wood products, later attending a “Woodworking and Forestry Technical School in Europe” where he focused on the craft of woodworking.1 He brought that European training to the Kansas City area and built Belak Woodworking around custom cabinetry and furniture that, in his framing, combines European style and technique with American practicality and standards.1 The specific country of origin and the date of his arrival in Kansas City are not stated in available public sources.

The business operates as Belak Woodworking LLC and is consistently listed at 14104 W 107th St, Lenexa, KS 66215, with phone (913) 375-3785, across the official site and independent directory listings (Yellow Pages, Houzz, Hotfrog).124

Sources

Disputes

None at this time. (Note: the original research brief listed the location as “Kansas City, KS”; corroborated sources place the shop in Lenexa, KS 66215 — a Johnson County, KS, municipality in the KC metro. The Lenexa address is used here as the verified pin and the neighborhood tag corrected accordingly.)

Footnotes

  1. https://belakwoodworking.com/about-belak/ — asserts: owner/founder Nick Hadzhiev; business founded “over 30 years ago”; founder grew up in a mountainous, wooded region and trained at a Woodworking and Forestry Technical School in Europe; combines European style/technique with American values and standards; shop located at 14104 West 107th Street, Lenexa, KS 66215; scope = custom cabinetry and handcrafted furniture (built-in cabinets, bookcases, vanities, desks, closets, kitchen cabinets, bedroom furniture, media cabinets), with design, craftsmanship, finishing, and installation. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  2. https://belakwoodworking.com/ — asserts: business currently operating; address 14104 West 107th Street, Lenexa, KS 66215; phone (913) 375-3785; locally owned; “Built-In Cabinets and Shelving made locally in Kansas City”; serves the Kansas City metro with nationwide/international shipping; corroborated by Yellow Pages listing (https://www.yellowpages.com/lenexa-ks/mip/belak-woodworking-llc-457913554) showing same address/zip and listed hours. ↩ ↩2

  3. https://belakwoodworking.com/services/ — asserts: services include custom cabinet design/build/install, custom furniture making, closet installation, finishing; product range includes kitchen table tops, office workstations, library bookshelves, double-vanity tops and cabinets; “Made in KC at Belak Woodworking Shop.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://www.houzz.com/professionals/furniture-and-accessories/belak-woodworking-llc-pfvwus-pf~1795302366 — asserts: Belak Woodworking LLC, Lenexa, KS, furniture and accessories / custom woodworking professional; corroborates business name, Lenexa location, and active professional profile (also corroborated by ZoomInfo listing Nick Hadzhiev as Owner: https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Nick-Hadzhiev/1857209960). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

See also

  • Registry
  • Owner-And-History-Research-Toolchain
Categories
  • Kansas City–owned
  • Lenexa