Here are some pictures of D and D’s coat closet. It is hard to photograph because it is a small room–hence the “fish eye” panorama picture. The room is 8.5 feet high. The closet has 4 sliding doors, 2 shelves, and a coat rack rail. It is built in around the crown moulding over a tile floor, around an alarm panel, and one side is a concrete wall. A good challenge!
D and D had me make a couple of custom closets. This one is for their water heater and brooms. I matched the cabinet door to their existing cabinets, which was a bit tricky. It was a very heavy door so it got 5 hinges.
Ms. M.W. ordered a custom cabinet for her new ensuite. It is painted plywood, rounded legs, white thermofoil doors and drawers with soft close options. It is for a double sink, and due to its length I had to reinforce the bottom so it wouldn’t sag. It was tricky lining up all those square corners on the drawers and doors!
My in-laws are re-doing their kitchen, but it is going slowly so I helped a bit by making the bench seat for them. It involved a couple of plywood boxes on a pre-made base. Then I glued two pieces of oak together to make the seats. They operate on piano hinges. Lastly I glued four pieces together to make a small oak table.
Last week I realized I had worked on a lot of different doors in a short space of time. There were closet doors, exterior doors, door frames, sticky locks, and cabinet doors. There were new frames, old ones, sidelights, painting, stripping/sanding… Below are some pictures. I do not consider myself a door expert. But, thanks to my gracious customers, I am learning.
Replacing an old door/frame/sidelight with a new door/frame, and adding a custom sidelight
Sanding white paint off of an old cedar door
Painting some cabinet doors
Replacing an old frame with a new custom frame, made out of 2×6 fir
Mrs. G. had another project in the rec room. It took a long time to settle on a plan–I had trouble envisioning how the cabinets would integrate with the mantle over the existing fireplace bricks. It was high time to use SketchUp to make a scale model!
Dan asked me to finish up the bottom of the bay window he had re-done some time ago. He did not have matching siding so needed some panels. He sent me a picture and I tried to follow the general gist of it. It turned out so nicely!
About a year ago I quoted on a shelf for Walt. Last October I dropped off the raw plywood with spruce fronts, and Walt spent the winter staining and varnishing it. Just yesterday we installed it. It turned out really nicely and fits well between walls.
I made some custom tops to go beside/above a fireplace mantle. They are stained dark brown to match the customer’s handrails. They are made of birch plywood with solid birch edges.
Gallery 7‘s production of The Mousetrap is now playing at MCA. It was the largest set build I’ve done this season and I was particularly glad to have Trevor’s (G7 volunteer) help for most of it. I think the reason it was more difficult was because it’s a house interior–all of the other sets have been slightly more abstract (though Doubt was close).
Here is a link to a video that shows a time lapse of the set from a blank stage to finished product:
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