John Mcbride has this piece under construction as I write. I’ll post some more photos. It is intended to complement this tiled tub surround.
Posts Tagged ‘furniture’
Tall Bathroom Cabinet for Lisa and Suzanne
Posted in Design Projects, tagged color, drawings, furniture, process, whimsy on April 11, 2011| 1 Comment »
Salvaged Fir and Redwood Treasure Chest Lid with a Spectra Hinge
Posted in Design Projects, tagged boxes, fir, furniture, green, plywood, redwood, rope, salvaged on April 5, 2011| 2 Comments »
I’ve made progress on the prototype. The lid is installed. I fashioned a hinge out of retired spectra running rigging from the 5o5 Bar-ba-loot (pictured below). The hinge needs a little fine-tuning, but I like the Xs. I handcarved the curves in the lid. Nice soft fir makes for easy carving.
Treasure chest Post 1 Treasure chest post 2
Treasure Chest Progress
Posted in Design Projects, tagged boxes, fir, furniture, process, redwood, salvaged, wood on March 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
After gluing the box together, it needed some sanding.
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The lid is made from two fir 2×6 scraps and a redwood 2×4 scrap that John brought home from his job site. Better than average specimens, with fairly straight, tight grain; they are probably from appearance grade stock. I did not have a planer on hand, but they were pretty straight and flat. I used my new jointer to make edges flat and perpendicular to the faces. I also used the jointer to clean up the faces. (This is usually accomplished by a planer) Then I glued and clamped them together as shown in this photo.
Custom TV Cabinet
Posted in Design Projects, tagged furniture, process on March 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
We have started work on this avant-garde TV cabinet for a client in Alameda and are awaiting more sunshine to proceed. Please see this post for a 3d rendering of the piece. I am looking forward to photographing the entire project when we go to install the piece in a few weeks. Stay posted!
Prototype treasure chest underway
Posted in Design Projects, tagged box, box joint, boxes, furniture, plywood, process on March 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A trash & recycling container cobbled together from woodshop scraps
Posted in Design Projects, tagged fir, furniture, green, paint, paperstone, patterns, recycled, rope, salvaged, wood on January 20, 2011| 3 Comments »
This Cadillac Trash Can has a top shelf for plants, a shelf for holding tuna for the cat, and a space below to push the dog bowls out of the way. It is built from remnants, so I didn’t have complete control of the proportions: Richlite top, fir sides, plywood shelves, door, & back panel
Decorated with pencil and Bioshield Aqua Resin Trim Enamel (zero VOC and compostable)
The door flips open on and is held at the proper angle by rope salvaged from a sailboat. Small clothespins attach the bags to the door for easy access
These tables made from old bike parts are cool
Posted in Found Objects, tagged furniture, recycled, salvaged on December 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
They are made in New Zealand by Carbon Footprint Design
Unfortunately it would up the carbon footprint a bit to ship them across the Pacific. I imagine that they are pretty lightweight though.
An Elegant Kitchen Underway at the Shorepointe
Posted in Design Projects, tagged furniture, kitchen, process on September 28, 2010| 3 Comments »
The As-built Floorplan
The Revised Floor Plan
This upgrade includes an expanded kitchen (for a client who enjoys cooking,) modern kitchen cabinets, a lot of drawers to maximize storage, New lighting design throughout the kitchen, foyer, and living room, conversion of a large storage closet into a pantry and laundry room, incorporation of a desk area into the kitchen, elimination of an electric fireplace with two-dimensional paper bricks and a new wall mounted flat screen TV with custom entertainment cabinet below.
Here are a few pictures of the kitchen before construction:
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- The kitchen
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- view from the kitchen with fake brick fireplace
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- the kitchen
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- Entry hall & storage closet
I am going to make you wait for the AFTER photos until it is finished,but here is a computer model of the new TV center to come:
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