Count down to wedding.

Less than two weeks until my cousins wedding, I promised some sort of arch for them to be married under, or in front of. My cousins father built furniture out of drift wood so I hope to create something that resembles his work.

Scotch Broom Arch with Madrone

Meanwhile I have clients to please... Drawer dividers and an astrigal for a closet... a door blank for a home in Ferndale... another sash for a shop plus stops for the other sashes that have been installed... and a cabinet alteration because the new garbage compactors are 15 inches wide and the old one was 12. A bank of drawers need to shrink in width by three inches.

Door frame for Ferndale home.

While in the shop I am also making shelves for our cypress vanity in the house and some bamboo plywood shelves for the half bath vanity upstairs. A bed frame needs to be built before the wedding and I have about a dozen picture frames that need glass cut to fit. Hopefully I have enough glass in my stash of old glass.

Prepping to caulk.

This morning I caulked the floor of the bathroom with sanded and tinted caulk that matches the grout and yesterday the bathroom sink was installed. Last to do in the bathroom is the claw foot tub. I probably won't get to that before the wedding, but I was able to fine tune all the door latches with new washers from House of Antique Hardware. Now all the doors close and open with ease and there is no more play in the handles.

Sashes and Bathroom

I told myself I wouldn't work on Sunday, however a patron of mine is heading south to the bay area to take his wife to her other home and his sash windows that I built don't have glass in them yet. I couldn't get over there today because of my sons violin recital and tomorrow they leave. Not only will I be working on Sunday but I will be starting early.

Sash glued up and glue chipped glass to install in the background.

The sashes were built to house salvaged insulated units of tinted glass pulled from an elementary school that are one inch thick. The redwood I used was salvaged 3x12's, incredible wood! You can't grow wood like the old growth... it takes time... many human generations.

Old Growth Redwood

We have been taking showers in the house, wow what a luxurious shower. It is fun to look out the shower through the glue chipped glass and imagining what the patterns look like. All that is left to do is to drill a hole for the sink drain and restore the claw foot tub... I just thought of a few more things like making shelves for the tall cypress cabinet and also caulking the perimeter of the floor with sanded caulk that matches the grout. At that point I think it is safe to say that the bathroom will be finished. Then I move on to building the kitchen cabinets with maple I had milled about 10 years ago. ( Wow how time does fly! )

Shower with glue chipped glass and redwood.