Furniture
Rugby Bookshelves
This was fun! A room full of built-in bookshelves. Customer did not want typical three-quarter inch plywood carcass with facing trim wider than the three-quarter inch thickness of the plywood. Clearly, he needed solid Douglas (Doug) fir shelves. All this Doug fir material came 1 1/2” thick. The sides, tops, bottoms, and all shelves were all Doug fir. Simple and elegant. The only plywood was the quarter inch backing. When the windows were put in 15 years or so ago, they tore out all the original trim around the windows and the baseboards. Some incompetent put in some shelves which required them to remove the baseboard. So part of this project was to fabricate all the baseboard and window casing in my shop. I stained and varnished the shelving and painted all the trim.
View of the top window trim, and how it intersected with the new shelves
View of the bottom window trim, and how it intersected with the new shelves
Shelf above the wall of windows
Shelf below the wall of windows
Another view of the wall of Windows
View of the bottom window trim, and how it intersected with the new shelves
View of the top window trim, and how it intersected with the new shelves
One of the two freestanding shelf units
The other of the two freestanding shelf units
One view of the finished installation with customer moved in
Dramatic view of the long window wall
First freestanding shelf filled with books
Partial View of one end of the window wall
Same view, but from the far end. You can see both freestanding units.
Partial view of the long window wall with moved in details.
MCC Various Furniture
Madison Community Cooperative (MCC), founded in 1968, is a thriving housing cooperative consisting of about 200 members who collectively own and manage 11 cooperative houses. I provided repair projects and cabinets/shelving for five of the houses. The instruction to me in each of these instances was to respect their budgetary constraints but try to add some economical beauty to each house providing a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses. I feel I succeeded. Staff at that time concurred enthusiastically.
I fabricated and installed this oak office mail routing unit
A second view of the Mail routing unit
Maple communal dining table
Second view of the maple table
Mail rack, and rent payment lock box and adjacent room divider
Kitchen spice storage shelves
Kitchen food storage shelving
A second view of the kitchen food storage shelving
Entry hall coat and incidentals storage unit
Second view of the entry hall, coat, and incidentals storage unit
Third view of the entry hall coat and incidentals storage unit
Entry hall oak-faced coat and boots storage unit
Entry hall oak-faced coat and boots storage unit installed
Note: side shelves. I like the top trim echoing original house trim.
Kitchen dish drying and storage shelving unit
Full front view of dish drying and storage shelving unit
A small communal desk to fit an odd niche
Art Shelves
Wooden shelf with a natural edge, mounted on a light-colored wooden wall with horizontal planks.
A piece of light-colored wood in front of a larger wooden surface.
A piece of light-colored wood with a raised angled edge, placed on a large wooden surface outdoors on a rough asphalt ground.
A wooden picture frame on a wooden table floor with a hard surface in the background.
Top view of a wooden box on a light wood table.
Wooden board with a section of burl wood design in the center, placed on a sheet of light-colored plywood on a gravel surface.
A piece of polished, dark wood with natural grain patterns, resting on a light wooden surface.
A polished wooden piece with a natural edge, placed on a light wooden surface outdoors.
A wooden sculpture resembling a rifle with a natural, uneven shape, placed on a light wooden surface with a measuring tape next to it.
A handcrafted wooden bowl with bark edges, placed on a wooden board outdoors.
A wooden piece with two distinct types of wood, one with a natural and rough surface and the other smoothly finished, placed on a surface covered with plastic sheeting.
A rectangular wooden tray with a natural, uneven surface, placed on a wooden table outdoors.
A wooden bench with a backrest, placed on a wooden surface.
A large, polished wooden slab with a natural, irregular shape, resting on a wooden surface outside near a garage or workshop, with some tools and boxes in the background.
A wooden shelf mounted on a wood-paneled wall with visible screws.
Wooden wall with vertical planks and a wooden shelf protruding from the wall.
Close-up of a dark wooden shelf with a natural edge, mounted on a light wood-paneled wall.
A polished wooden shelf or piece of furniture with natural wood grain and knots, mounted on a wooden wall.
Wooden sculpture or carving with natural and rough edges, placed on a beige fabric background.
Wooden decorative shelf with natural bark edge mounted on a light-colored wooden wall.
A wooden sculpture with natural wood grain and dark burned or stained areas, featuring an abstract, organic shape.
Close-up of a wooden board with a natural edge, showing wood grain and some dark resin or fill in the cracks.
A wooden floating shelf with a natural, curved shape, mounted on a light-colored, vertically striped wooden wall.