Repairing an FLW storm window
I had the chance to repair a broken storm window last week. One side of a mahogany framed storm had broken years ago letting in quite a draft on stormy days like today.
I had the chance to repair a broken storm window last week. One side of a mahogany framed storm had broken years ago letting in quite a draft on stormy days like today.
I’m making something totally out-of-sight this week. It’s slang but also will literally the result of quite a bit of precision planning, cutting and manipulating of materials. Wait ’til you see this installation.
Well, my first repair and alteration to the deck on this Frank Lloyd Wright home lasted a few years and then… A new owner and a new way of thinking, or is it an old way of thinking? Either way I was hired to demolish my work and restore the original design. Thank Goodness!
Here’s another backdated post to the date the work was completed… or is it? This blog entry is the only place you will ever see this work. In 2002 I was called to make some alterations to an interior room that I had previously worked on for the same homeowner. The task was to eliminate [...]
In July of 2001 I replaced a small piece of fascia board on a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Making these replacement pieces was a lot of fun because of the interesting shape. I made a template for the router and then chiseled out the corners.
Not too long after I started working on a Frank Lloyd Wright home here in Connecticut I was asked to fix the front storm door because it was badly warped and one of the screws holding the handle in place had stripped out, leaving the handle a bit loose. After altering the door in my [...]
In late 2000, I was hired to renovate a dilapidated deck on a friend’s Frank Lloyd Wright original house here in Connecticut. “Springbough” is no ordinary house and at first sight I knew my work here was going to be both challenging and gratifying. Presented here is a backdated post to the time when the [...]