Bookshelves

A customer recently asked me to assemble an antique bedframe. When I say antique, I mean 16th century. It was a very impressive piece. It required a little surgery to make it structurally sound, but it worked out and is ready to use. Afterward, they asked me to build a set of bookshelves for their livingroom. They had some requirements- no plywood, MDF nor any substrate that wasn’t all natural wood. We had some pretty tight size requirements to meet as well. Above you see construction is finished and I am covered in sawdust, doing some final sanding. They will be painted and installed as built-ins so I wanted to show them off in their natural state. This one is 8’ tall and both cases feature a tudor-arch mimic, which the customer wanted to fit in with the original style still featured in the house built in the early 1900s. I think I pulled it off. I love the projects that keep me in the shop. While i love the home services aspect of my job, this is my element. Stay tuned for the final installation.