“If we start off not knowing what we’re going to do, we could do anything.” —Terry Pratchett
Do you dream of theme room carpentry/interior finishing? “Oh, that’s just for kids.” Why should kids have all the fun? Creative conceptual carpentry for your kids or you! Explore the child within!How about adult fun such as a: Castle Loft Bed? Treehouse bedroom? Tahitian Tree House bedroom? Camelot bedroom? Man Cave? Pee Wee’s Playhouse? Roman bedroom? Pompeiian bathroom? Venetian Doge’s Palace den? Flintstone’s living room? Pirate’s Cove living room? Forest of Arden living room? Isle of Lesbos playroom? …or whatever you desire!?Theatrical “set design” for the stage your life is enacted uponYou need not be constrained by shortage of nerve or imagination (or ignorance of the properties of materials) “Can you really build that?”Oh, yes. If you can dream it, I can build it!Or I’ll dream it with/for you!Historically-accurate or Creatively Fantastical!I’ll make your dreams come true!Japanese Shoji Door and Window
A basement guest room needed to be made more private. And they didn't want to close the doorway up and just put curtains in the window or some other uncreative solution. The cheap Target folding screen they had gave us the answer. We decided on a Japanese shoji sliding paper door and window cover.
From online: “A shoji is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture, consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame. Where light transmission is not needed, the similar but opaque fusuma is used. Shoji usually slide, but may occasionally be hung or hinged, especially in more rustic styles.”
The low basement ceiling and other original construction constraints required that we custom build the doors and window and install them to the particular sizes necessary. Both doors can slide on their barn door track, but we temporarily fixed one so that the one door was the moving door and the window screen was fixed in place.
This was the rare job that I did not do the finish priming and painting; the customer was going to paint.
New doors in place, window in place view from the basement
Finished installation. Waiting for the painters.
Window from inside the room
View from inside the room with doors and window trimmed in place
Window from inside the room
Window from the basement
Detailed view of the door installation
Original pre-installation view
Dragon Door
Japanese Entry
Castle bed