Ceiling Beam Designs – Frame and Panel
Our client liked the fireplace mantle we had built for them so they asked us to add wainscot to their foyer in the same ‘Mission Style’ architecture we’d done for the mantle. For their next Read More …
Category: Architectural Detailing
Decorative Interior Wall Panels – Wainscot
There are all kinds of decorative interior wall panels that can be bought in large, thin sheets and glued to the walls of a room… but historically, the richest and most classic of all wall Read More …
Designing a Mission Style Fireplace Mantle
.They had a mantle made by the carpenters who trimmed out their place a number of years back. It was essentially three boards with molding applied to the face & a shelf. Like many facades, Read More …
Building and Installing Wainscot
The house was over a hundred years old and was situated in a very up-scale neighborhood. Any investment in a good quality, home improvement was a wise one. Their dining room & foyer, staircase & hallway… Read More …
An Exquisite Interior
I don’t usually post a blog of another’s blog but the sheer volume of labor involved in this building had my head spinning. Houses of worship (churches, synagogues & mosques) are most aften the premier examples Read More …
A Cabinetmaker’s Bathroom
When we bought the house, the old bathroom had a Formica covered vanity and a linen closet which occupied a fifth of it’s interior space. When I finally got around to it, we gutted the Read More …
Extremely Fine Woodworking
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), they have a display, (a small room, actually / maybe 10’x10′?) inside of which are the reconstructed walls and ceiling treatments of a highly-figured room that must originally Read More …
How to Make a Family Room for the Whole Family
Our client’s family (two adults and three children) wanted a room in which all their different activities could take place. Their TV and stereo components, video games, the computer(s), the home’s business area, library shelving Read More …
Fireplace Bookshelves with Wood Storage
This is the same client (friends, actually) for whom we constructed an exterior door (see oldest post here- ‘A Castle’s Exterior Door’… at the bottom of the page). Anyway, this stone house was built over Read More …
Architectural Detailing for a Foyer
A few years back, an interior designer who brings us work from time to time, asked us to further ‘decorate’ her client’s foyer. When we left the job, it wasn’t painted so I hadn’t really Read More …
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