Saturday, April 26, 2008

Heritage Hill House- Doors




I have been working at a house in Heritage Hill that is located on Madison Street. Madison is a street on the south end of the hill district that has many fine homes that are very grand in scale. The house I am working on was built around 1910. I have been working there now for over a month on many projects. One of the projects I have worked on is install a small set of double or french style doors in a hallway. I needed a custom size but wanted something to look vintage. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any old doors in the house that would work so I challenge was to build and install a set of doors that looked original but to do it with in a budget. I managed to design two paint grade doors out of two fifteen dollar sheets of plywood and had a great deal of fun building them. So attached are a couple of pictures taken before the trim when on and before paint. I will include some finished pictures later.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

SPRING!!!!

I think spring is finally here. It seemed along time coming this year. With all the snow we had the world we are living in seem frozen in pristine white. I however have been seeing robin's for weeks now. My firewood pile in the shop as been all but gone for awhile.

It always amazes me with the snow gone how many project become apparent around the house. The upbeat side of the warmer weather that we are now getting is that we are now into the time of year were it is so very pleasant to work outside and get projects done.

So the long and short of this is that if you have put off any large and small construction projects this winter now is a good time to give me a call. The phone always tends to get busy this time so don't put off calling for for too long. I look forward to hearing from you