Motivated by my shop set up for gluing cabinet doors, I searched my dusty shelves for some raised panels I had cut many years ago but never assembled. The panels were cut from recycled wood, reclaimed from a Frank Lloyd Wright home I worked on years before. With the doors assembled they needed a place [...]
Hi. Here’s another personal project to come out of my shop recently. While working on a Frank Lloyd Wright home, the homeowner, knowing how much I like Native American art, gave me a painting from her wall. After nearly a decade hanging in my bedroom this painting has grown on me and I decided to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
