Credenza Update

Belinda sent over some pictures of the credenza I built for her complete with the granite top.

Rustic boards

I started making these bread boards with the remnants from past projects.

The one above is sycamore.

Christmas!

My boyfriend Paul and I teamed up to make Christmas presents!

Paul and I turned 40 pounds of cucumbers into Bread and Butter Pickles to give out for Christmas. (I cried for these pickles, I cut up 24 onions!)

Many thanks to Paul's former boss at Hudson Restaurant, executive chef Doug Borkowski for letting us use the kitchen.

Also to Matt Parrillo of Monolith Press for printing the labels for the jars!
Monolith Press is the newest addition to the Navigator Systems building where I work. They screen print amazing art posters for bands.

We wanted to make wood labels, and burning wood turned out to be a major failure so we asked Matt if he could screen print on wood and he made us a deal.

He printed our labels and some for himself and we cut them out.

Below is the action shot that Angel sent me!

I can't wait to do another canning project!

Furniture For Anne

When Anne called to discuss building her some furniture she said she just bought a new home, it was small and she had a million books and no where to unpack them. Admist other projects I had going on at the time I found some time to design, have parts fabricated and then with the help of friends and colleagues, build 5 pieces of furniture for her. As quick as possible.

Many thanks to Leon Kyriakopoulos, Gary Dunning, Mei Yen, Mike Bryant, Paul Bondick, and Derek McCall it never would have happened without your help.

Leon fabricated all the metal parts I needed, the right angle brackets below are the shelf supports. He also made bookends for the panel shelves.

Anne has a beautiful collection of antique furniture and ceramics, I wanted the pieces I designed to neither deter or compete with them. She suggested using pine which I was hesitant to at first but soon fell for. I like the humble, country fresh feel that it has.


The pieces below were designed to have book storage and showcase specific favorites of her collection of antique furniture.

The miniature cabinet below was one of many in a collection of "miniatures" that belonged to Anne's grandfather. The craftsmanship and detailing were on point all the way down to tiny set of china dishes. It's so neat to design and build furniture for a museum quality piece like that.







Thanks to my dad for all his tireless help and letting me trade trucks with him so I could use his full sized truck!

Friends and Family of 1800 Ferry Point...

Holiday Gift Ideas...staplers!

The Ace Pilot for $32

The Zenith plier-style stapler.

Thank You!

Fiona Douglass of Bluebellgray.




Photos from Design*Sponge.

Jane and Becky

Jane and Becky contacted me to build them a built in bench seat for their bay window in their kitchen nook. We made the fronts match the existing cabinetry. The seats flip up and provide lots of storage.

The cushions were fabricated by Worley's Home and Design Center, the fabric was selected there as well.

The paint was a custom color to match the existing white cabinetry by Shermin Williams.
This service has come in very handy to get an exact color replicated.





I wanted these pullouts to have a fruit-crate look so I designed big finger joints and a big oval handle to open them with. Western Dovetail did the fabrication.

Sammie's Vanity...

Every once in a while Matt Bear of Union Studio asks me to help him with an install or delivery. I love it, we get to hang out, I get to see the new work and in this case meet Sammie, his client.
(a yoga instructor.)

This vanity went into a house in Montclair Oakland. Where the neighborhood is spread out amongst hills and trees, it is the closest you can be to living in the country but you are in Oakland. We parked the truck above the house and carried everything down a long path and stairway to the house. Then it had to go up a steep curved staircase to the second story, Sammie and Matt made me feel like super woman! Such a compliment from someone like Sammie!


The drawers are U shaped to accept sink plumbing.

Tables for Union Studio and March Pantry...

I was eager to help when Matt Bear of Union Studio asked if I'd assist fabricate a collection of kitchen tables he had designed for the relaunch of March.



The owner of March, Sam Hamilton, collaborated with many designers and artists to create new work for March. So the store is full of irresistible handmade limited production goods. And the tables I helped Matt with are some of the neatest tables I have ever seen.

The table in the picture above is an end grain butcher block made out of solid white oak. Every seam has a floating tenon. The glue up was pretty fun and went incredibly well. There were three of us, spreading glue, placing tenons and stacking. After we stacking up 60 gluey blocks and clamped them all together the squeeze out was like a glue Niagara Falls!

The bottom of each leg has been dipped in Farrow & Ball paint.

The Table top below is a 3" slab of Carrara marble.


Below is another table topped in Carrara, The base is also white oak painted with a thin coat of Farrow & Ball paint, the wood grain is visible through the paint. There are white oak inserts that fit into the table so storage under the table can be utilized.


The table below has steel legs that assemble around a bottom rack that provides many storage options; aged steel boxes, wood boxes, woven baskets. I also love the steel bar at either end for towels or knives. A saddle maker has made leather pockets that loop onto these bars for knife storage.


It was a honor to be a part of this project.
Thank you!

*The first picture is from Remodelista, visit the post to see the whole write up on March.

But nothing compares to actually visiting the store. The displays change with the seasons, (fall was butter beans by the bushel and sage green pumpkins) They play a mood enhancing mix of rock and country music and often offer you little treats to snack on!

Here are a couple process photos of the butcher block: