Mika Reyes

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Operations & Productivity Lead

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Join date: Jan 22, 2026

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Hello Drafites!

While our industry lives in CAD, I believe projects live or die by communication. My column explores the critical "soft skills" that drive successful millwork projects—bridging the gap between the shop floor, the architect's vision, and the drafter’s screen. From mastering the art of the RFI to navigating sticky client emails, I’m here to help you sharpen your project management toolkit.

Let’s move beyond just drawing lines and start engineering better workflows together.

Posts (4)

Jul 27, 2025 ∙ 3 min

Millwork in 2025: What’s Evolving (And What’s Refusing to Budge)

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Millwork Drafting in 2025 Welcome to the wonderful world of millwork drafting in 2025 — where some things are speeding forward like they just got a firmware update, and others are still pretending it’s 1998. Spoiler alert: that dusty block library and your uncle’s layer system didn’t age like fine wine. The good news? Progress is real. The bad news? It’s patchier than poorly glued edge band. What’s Evolving 1. Smarter CAD Libraries Finally, people are...

Jul 6, 2025 ∙ 3 min

Curves, Leaves, and Clients Who Say “Make It Soothing”: Biophilic Millwork in 2025

In case you haven’t been trapped under a drafting table the past year, everything in commercial interiors is getting softer, rounder, and greener — literally. Welcome to biophilic millwork — where curves are king, planter boxes aren’t optional, and drafters everywhere are side-eyeing radius tools with equal parts fear and fascination. Let’s talk about what’s really happening — and how you, dear drafter, can keep up without tearing your hair out or rage-deleting AutoCAD. What the Heck Is...

Jun 28, 2025 ∙ 3 min

Welcome to 2025: Navigating Tariffs in the Millwork Industry

Welcome to 2025. The only thing more uncertain than your shipping ETA is the price of Baltic birch next week. The U.S. government, in its infinite wisdom and love of alphabet soup economics, has introduced a new wave of tariffs on imported materials. Then, they removed them. And then they introduced them again. If you're in the millwork industry, that sound you hear is the collective groan of drafters, fabricators, and shop owners nationwide, followed by someone yelling, "WE'RE OUT OF MAPLE...