NR HILLER DESIGN, INC.

CUSTOM FURNITURE & CABINETRY

  • HOME
  • BOOKS
  • ABOUT
  • PORTFOLIO
    • KITCHENS
    • FURNITURE
    • BATHS
  • NEWS
  • WRITING
    • ARTICLES
    • BOOKS
    • BLOG – Making Things Work
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT

Classes & News

 

Cover of Fine Woodworking magazine #281

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Building Custom Kitchen Cabinets” video series with Woodsmith Magazine now available. Click here to sign up using the code NANCYSAVES for $30 off.

American Craft Magazine interview

Classes for 2020
February 20-23, 2020
Asheville, North Carolina
Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference
I will be exhibiting work and leading a small-group discussion.

April 17-18, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Southbridge, Massachusetts
Fine Woodworking Live 2020
I will be leading a workshop on various finishing techniques using milk paint.

June 15-19, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Berea, Kentucky
Pine Croft Woodworking School
Weeklong class: Build a Voysey two heart chair

September 5-6, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Amana, Iowa
Handworks
I will be at Handworks with copies of my book about kitchens, publication of which is planned for summer 2020.

October 5-10, 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Tampa, Florida
Florida School of Woodworking
Build an heirloom desk. Stick to the original oak and dark finish–or customize the design for a more modern or Scandinavian look.

***

WFIU Cafe Indiana interview with Yael Ksander

Big Talk interview with Michael Glab on WfHB about Making Things Work

Popular Woodworking cover

English Arts & Crafts bookcase, Popular Woodworking cover feature in December 2015!

Popular Woodworking Video now available: Build a Turn-of-the-Century Baker’s Cabinet

Other news

New department in Woodcraft Magazine features dovetail lap joint article by Nancy Hiller

Also in the October-November issue of Woodcraft Magazine: Build a simple knockdown desk

Floating vanity for Fine Homebuilding makes the cover

fine_homebuilding

Furniture design icon Wendy Maruyama selected Corona Plumosa for inclusion in the Indiana State Museum’s studio furniture exhibition that ran from October 2013 through June 2014.

“Fearless Furniture: Art of the Matter 203” by Brian Paul for WFYI Indianapolis

Sneaky Bar wins PureBond Quality Award from Columbia Forest Products

Nancy Hiller, Lee Huss, and the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center desk featured on WTIU’s Weekly Special Program #713: “A Walk in the Woods.”

Johnny Grey reviews The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History and calls it a “must read for anyone interested in American kitchens.” Read the full review.

A Home of Her Own wins IPPY Award.

A Home of Her Own featured in the Huffington Post.

Now available: A Home of Her Own, from the Indiana University Press. Johnny Grey calls A Home of Her Own “a lovely, brave and original book.” Read the full post.

Follow us

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Latest Instagrams

nrhiller

This has been a wonderful Saturday. We slept late, This has been a wonderful Saturday. We slept late, did some work, and I spent the last couple of hours working on my latest OCD revisions of “Shop Tails.” This was Mark earlier in the day, wearing his organic probiotic stole. Will you look at those back legs?!
.
.
#catbutt #shopcatsofinstagram #saturday
After a day of working on the current set of kitch After a day of working on the current set of kitchen cabinets in the shop, the last two hours of which I spent routing and chopping mortises for traditional butt hinges,I am putting a few finishing details on this cabinet from a project shoot for @finewoodworkingmagazine before giving it to a friend. I went to cut a piece of wood for the shelf and when I turned around, the boss was checking the interior.
.
.
#finewoodworking #finewoodworkingmagazine #shopcat #womanownedbusiness
“Hey, put a brad in this thing before the glue d “Hey, put a brad in this thing before the glue dries. Am I the only one paying attention?!”
.
.
#shopcatlife #supervisor #customcabinetmaker #bossy
If it’s good enough for Dolly, it’s good enoug If it’s good enough for Dolly, it’s good enough for me. I got my hair done last Friday, in a manner of speaking, thanks to a lovely local business. I still have hair, but it’s much thinner and I haven’t had it cut or highlighted since July. With the prospect of 5 more chemo infusions over the next 10 weeks, I decided it was time to take some action. More hair is destined to fall out.

I never would have imagined myself getting a wig, but one of my best friends has been wearing them since she developed alopecia. I always think her hair looks great. So instead of this being an occasion for self pity (or worse), I’m giving thanks for good-looking hair. (And for anyone wondering about the cost, this cost less than a typical trip to the hairdresser for me.)
.
.
#hair #cancer #pancreaticcancer #glasshalffull #dolly
Kieran Binnie, I wish I had known you were struggl Kieran Binnie, I wish I had known you were struggling. For the past few weeks I have been meaning to send you a note just asking how you are. How I wish I had done so now. I will always remember you as a thoughtful, intelligent man devoted to your “best girls.” This morning many of us are wishing we’d known what you were going through and that we might have done something to help.
Tony likes the Harris Lebus-style sideboard. . . # Tony likes the Harris Lebus-style sideboard.
.
.
#furnituremaking #gingercats #home
I saw the most amazing clouds today. . . #nofilte I saw the most amazing clouds today. 
.
.
#nofilterneeded #indiana #cloudscape
Happy homecoming. While I love the nurses at Bloom Happy homecoming. While I love the nurses at Bloomington Hospital, I am always thrilled to get home after chemo, which lasted eight hours today if you include the time to get blood test results back from the lab. Even better is Thursday afternoon, when I get this portable pump removed.

Joey absolutely loves Spring weather. He runs outside and rolls in the grass, then takes a nap. I tried to get a picture of him rolling in the grass but he saw me with the camera and thought he might be needed in the house. He is such a caretaker, like Nana the dog in “Peter Pan.”
 
The serviceberry tree is covered in delicate white blossoms. The daffodils are wilting rapidly in the sudden heat.

And I feel like a Christmas tree! There are so many colorful parts to this line that runs from the needle in my chest, which is propped in place by world-class bandaging. It’s no fun trying to sleep with this gear attached to your body, but thankfully it only stays on for 46 hours. It doesn’t hurt. It’s just annoying and unsightly, hence my preference for thinking of it as a string of Christmas tree lights. 

What a beautiful Spring!
.
.
#spring2021 #cancerrealities #pancreaticcancer #shopdoglife #gratefulforeveryday
My goal for the start of this kitchen was to get t My goal for the start of this kitchen was to get the carcases built and inch-thick paint-grade face frames on these cabinets before chemo tomorrow. Aside from finessing the curve on the corner cabinet, I am there. There’s still plenty to do before these can be installed: I will apply veneer tape to the bottom edges, which won’t have a face frame, screw in attachment cleats and apply the backs, then sand. At that point they will be ready to install, and I will start building doors and drawers. Slower progress than usual, but I’m happy to be back at it.
.
.
#cabinetmaker #bungalowrenovation #customcabinetry #customcabinets #traditionalcabinetry #tradeswoman #monday
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Affiliations

Society of American Period Furniture Makers

Copyright © 2021 · NR HILLER DESIGN, INC.