Rescued Lumber Vanities

I love this project.

The client had remodeled her house. Wood from the old structure and framing was kept in the backyard covered with a tarp for quite a long time.

In the picture bellow there is some leftovers that show what was given to me to build this pieces.

The wood was cleaned and straightened to start building the face frames, panels, door frames, etc. Then after everything is assembled and squared the sanding and texturing of a 'semi rough and old' look can be worked out. The reason is that the joints have to be perfect to be strong so the wood needs to be straight, flat and squared.

After I built the pieces I started finishing with wax in 'cherry' first to give it a redish first coat.

Then a second dark and more 'artistic' coat to 'age' the pieces using fading techniques.

One of the challenges of this job was to do the panels with uneven wood, but it totally worked with patience and good biscuit location. Tight and no gaps.

The picture bellow is the 'sample' to imitate. Of course the wood is totally different so the grain will never let me perfectly stain it like that, MINE IT'S MADE OUT OF OLD STUDS!!

Entertaiment center

This is my 3D graphic video from the client hand drawing. The project will start the 2nd half of April 2009. The doors will be "flipper" but they are not shown in the graphics.

Small left is a picture of the "work in progress", only plywood structure before the face frames, doors and drawers.

Small right is the EC just before been delivered and installed.

Update June 24th: This project is finished and installed, I'm waiting until the client's new electronics purchase to take pictures of the installed product.

Bathroom windows, cabinets and trim

When I worked for Restoration Workshop, we made these cabinets using highly figured woods as teak, curly maple, spaulted maple, quilted maple, curly cherry, ziricote , etc.

All the trim, panels, drawer faces, door frames and windows are solid wood and they were sanded to perfection. Then coated and coated with finishing oil, rubbed with wax and water based polyurethane for spaulted maple ( 13 coats).
I did the windows within a 32nd off. We pre-assemble their trim, and install them in it.
I also finished all the spaulted maple trim, worked on the drawer faces, help assembling doors, installing the cabinets, doing them... All team work.
I learned a lot from Chris, Zarin and Spencer.