Greene & Greene Style Mirror I wrote earlier about a commission where a customer wanted a mirror over their fireplace, but wanted something with a “Greene and Greene” flavor. Greene and Greene were architects and furniture designers who were big in the arts & crafts movement, and helped design what some folks call the “ultimate …
I was contacted by a customer who had a slat bed with a support beam that was broken and needed to be replaced. Rather than getting a whole new bed, they identified the issue and found me via a business card I had at the local Rockler store. I came over and took dimensions …
I’ve got a commission to build a Greene and Greene style mirror for sitting over a fireplace. The Greene and Greene style is a higher end arts & crafts type of build, with some distinctive features which sets it apart from your typical blocky Stickly stye. Some of the features include a “cloud lift” which …
I was asked to make a pasta rolling board for a customer to a specific size – 30” wide x 24” deep. She had a few pictures and etsy links. The traditional wood used in Italy is lime wood (also known as linden or basswood). The wood is fairly stable, but can be cut or …
I wrote back in mid-May about a customer asking for a small, four drawer cabinet to store their homeopathy medicines. The medicine comes in small tubes, and she needed each drawer to hold three rows of 12 – so overall the cabinet would be able to store 144 tubes (4 drawers * 3 rows * …
New Project: Small Cabinet with drawers: part 1 – design I had a client approach me with a request to build a custom small cabinet with drawers to store medicinal herbs they use. The drawer dimensions were very specific, as they had to store a certain type of container in a way they could be …
I had a customer in New York who had some odd shaped/sized kitchen cabinet doors, and they could not purchase something “off the shelf” to redo their cabinet doors. Since the doors covered the cabinet fronts entirely (i.e. European style cabinets) they wanted something that was the same measurements as their existing cabinet doors, but …
I had a client request a custom design for their cutting board. They wanted something that was 16 inches wide x 16 inches deep, and roughly 1 inch thick. They wanted a juice groove around the outside on all four sides (they called it a juice “trench” so tomato/tomato) and wanted to have indented handles …
I had a customer who had a small apartment in Brooklyn, and they wanted a walnut hall table with specific dimensions (50” long but only 9” deep) in order to fit a specific spot in the house. This happens a lot with me with my commissions. Someone has an idea what they want, but they …
A customer was looking for a coat hanger with a shelf above for their entryway, with specific dimensions for it (44” long) and couldn’t find one online that would match what they needed – so they approached me. They had a design based on a few pictures in etsy, so I was able to sketch …
