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Keeping the goal in mind as I wander through the valley of the current kitchen job. This is a throwback to a kitchen from Spring 2005, designed to incorporate salvaged hardware, tile, and glass. There are some fun and clever bits of storage, too. It’s one of those in the book coming out this summer from Lost Art Press. General contractor for the job was @bertgilbertarts Spectrum Design Group . . #customcabinetry #customcabinets #kitchendesignideas #salvagedhardware #architecturalsalvage Reciprocity wins. At lunchtime today I visited Jason Hackett at his workplace, Cardinal Spirits, to help him think through some details of the Nicholson bench he’s building from the workbench book by @lostartpress (the one published by Popular Woodworking). (We met outside by the loading dock, both wearing masks, and kept our distance.) The drawings are excellent and the instructions are clear, but as with any written instructions, you still have to use your noodle to puzzle through some details. Not having seen the book before, I did my own puzzling and helped summarize the game plan. It looks like a rock-solid bench that’s ideal for someone with limited shop resources. Jason kindly proffered a selection of the company’s cocktails (which were featured in the New York Times last week—go, @cardinalspirits ! —along with a gallon of hand sanitizer, which Cardinal has been producing for a couple of months. One of the partners in this business is a client of mine; the business is the fruit of long-held dreams. It’s so gratifying to see this locally owned operation flourish. . . #growlocal #buildyourown #reciprocityrules #woodworking
Plans change. Here is the latest iteration for the south wall of the kitchen on which I am currently working. These are all colors from @realmilkpaintco . I made little samples on scraps of 8th inch high density fiber board so that we could move them around. The wall area between the upper and lower cabinets will probably have a subway tile backsplash; I think the clients chose this icy pale blue from #crossvilletile called Par Avion. I am hoping they will let me Texter the pale green, which comes very close to one of their exterior paint colors, with a yellow under coat as on the sample. The hardware is for sure. Ready to move on to the rest of the cabinets now – the ones with white oak faces. . . #kitchendesign #midcenturydesign #midcenturymodern #customcabinetry #realmilkpaintcompany #funwithcolor #funwithcolors #womanownedbusiness #happyplace Thank goodness for spring and a beautiful, balmy Friday evening.
Spotted just as I was about to turn on the table saw: We have finally achieved peace in the kingdom. . . #shopdogs #shopcats #woodworking #cabinetmaker #mondaysweetness #catsanddogslivingtogether What is a fair price? That’s the topic of my new post at @finewoodworkingmagazine prompted by an exchange I had with a couple of readers last year. Generally speaking, people don’t think carefully enough about what that expression may mean. This is probably the most philosophical post I have written for the Pro’s Corner blog to date. Some people will be turned off. Blame it on my early training by Miss Duguid, my English teacher in middle school, and Mr. Thomas Bagg, her equivalent in high school. (We always thought his parents were a bit thoughtless in giving him a first name that begins with “T.”) Thanks to @1snugthejoiner for asking me to do an article about a bookcase for Popular Woodworking in 2015 and to Al Parrish, who shot it. Thanks also to @pragmatic_anarchist for being my reader for the post and suggesting the title, and to @lostartpress for allowing us to use his grandmother’s lovely old books for the shoot. Link in profile. . . #ittakesavillage #artsandcraftsfurniture #artsandcraftsdesign #bookcasedesign #practicalphilosophy #useyourhead #morecriticalthinking #morecriticalthinkingplease #lovemyteachers #studyhumanities #ethics #furnituredesign #womanownedbusiness

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