Post by craigmarshall on Jun 12, 2008 0:56:41 GMT
Hi,
My boss does joinery and furniture making, I'm into the furniture making side of things, but in practice, we do half and half, and I don't usually post about the joinery stuff here ( the doors, windows - and other big scale stuff like floors and stairs, wall panelling), but we did a lot of work last year on a barn conversion and I really liked the outcome, so I thought I might post some pics here.
This is the place from the outside. It's a stone barn that has had some of it's walls rebuilt/repaired and it's roof lifted slightly.
They had some timber framers in to do all the lovely oak-work you see here. I think it's stunning.
The walls don't seem that nice though Half of them are blackjacked and the stone ones are out of plumb by up to, oh, say 8 inches?
We got this stair case in nicely against the back wall (rebuild, and squareish + straightish, which is a relief). The stairs were made by a different joinery company, we just fitted them onsite, too much other work!
We (My boss and I) laid the oak floor you can see, the concrete below it and the underfloor heating pipes and timber framing below that. The panelling around the walls and pipes, we made and fitted.
Here's a better look at the panelling. And you can see some boxing in around the windows that we did. I like the interior shutters because there are no hinges (no visible hinges at least), no latches and no handles. For some reason I like that :-)
Here is some of the more plain panelling. It's looking quite nice, I think.
They decided on a door in this area, so we have to change the plan quick and panel around the door, make a door frame and door to fit.
Here's what the panelling looks like before it's painted and mounted. It's southern yellow pine (from America) and moisture resistant MDF.
Here's one of the windows up close. There were about five of these. None of the angles were symmetrical (they are now), and it was a real pain to measure and make!!
This was an awkward corner, it's not 45 degrees.
Here's a window/seat that's nearly finished.
Meet my boss. He's quite camera shy.
This is the hole in the concrete wall you saw earlier, we made panelling and frame and door to fill it. Just to complicate things, the owner decided that a hinged window in the door would be a good idea.. This isn't a great photo because it's very dark, but I left it in, because by coincidence, it gives an impression of how dark the place was to work in while all the walls were black, there were few windows (and no hole in the wall), and no electrics apart from an extension lead.
Sorry - I just can't keep my camera off all that lovely oak.
We made the floor that you see to the right at the top of the stairs (it's a box made of 2x4 (?) softwood with a plywood skin and it's as stiff as any other area on this floor). We also made the railing around the aperture, and we laid the solid oak floor.
I laid this bit of floor in particular and I'm proud of it, so I took an extra photo.
I invented a silly dovetail game (I'm obsessed with dovetails). I suppose it could be called on-site dovetails. The rules are you have to stand up, no bench, no pencil, rubbish wood only, and only tool allowed is a jigsaw. This is my bosses entry, I think he did quite well. I don't think I entered the comp. after seeing this...
I made these bedside tables to the customer's spec. He wanted no drawers, no cupboard doors, no feet. And a hollow part behind the false back to cover plug sockets. They are french cleated to the walls, at 60 degrees instead of 45 because they are almost square in cross section and would likely pull off the wall.
Here are some doors and frames that I made too. I also put up the stud wall inside the room on the right. It was just a bathroom, now it's a bathroom and a boiler cupboard.
Enjoy,
Craig
My boss does joinery and furniture making, I'm into the furniture making side of things, but in practice, we do half and half, and I don't usually post about the joinery stuff here ( the doors, windows - and other big scale stuff like floors and stairs, wall panelling), but we did a lot of work last year on a barn conversion and I really liked the outcome, so I thought I might post some pics here.
This is the place from the outside. It's a stone barn that has had some of it's walls rebuilt/repaired and it's roof lifted slightly.
They had some timber framers in to do all the lovely oak-work you see here. I think it's stunning.
The walls don't seem that nice though Half of them are blackjacked and the stone ones are out of plumb by up to, oh, say 8 inches?
We got this stair case in nicely against the back wall (rebuild, and squareish + straightish, which is a relief). The stairs were made by a different joinery company, we just fitted them onsite, too much other work!
We (My boss and I) laid the oak floor you can see, the concrete below it and the underfloor heating pipes and timber framing below that. The panelling around the walls and pipes, we made and fitted.
Here's a better look at the panelling. And you can see some boxing in around the windows that we did. I like the interior shutters because there are no hinges (no visible hinges at least), no latches and no handles. For some reason I like that :-)
Here is some of the more plain panelling. It's looking quite nice, I think.
They decided on a door in this area, so we have to change the plan quick and panel around the door, make a door frame and door to fit.
Here's what the panelling looks like before it's painted and mounted. It's southern yellow pine (from America) and moisture resistant MDF.
Here's one of the windows up close. There were about five of these. None of the angles were symmetrical (they are now), and it was a real pain to measure and make!!
This was an awkward corner, it's not 45 degrees.
Here's a window/seat that's nearly finished.
Meet my boss. He's quite camera shy.
This is the hole in the concrete wall you saw earlier, we made panelling and frame and door to fill it. Just to complicate things, the owner decided that a hinged window in the door would be a good idea.. This isn't a great photo because it's very dark, but I left it in, because by coincidence, it gives an impression of how dark the place was to work in while all the walls were black, there were few windows (and no hole in the wall), and no electrics apart from an extension lead.
Sorry - I just can't keep my camera off all that lovely oak.
We made the floor that you see to the right at the top of the stairs (it's a box made of 2x4 (?) softwood with a plywood skin and it's as stiff as any other area on this floor). We also made the railing around the aperture, and we laid the solid oak floor.
I laid this bit of floor in particular and I'm proud of it, so I took an extra photo.
I invented a silly dovetail game (I'm obsessed with dovetails). I suppose it could be called on-site dovetails. The rules are you have to stand up, no bench, no pencil, rubbish wood only, and only tool allowed is a jigsaw. This is my bosses entry, I think he did quite well. I don't think I entered the comp. after seeing this...
I made these bedside tables to the customer's spec. He wanted no drawers, no cupboard doors, no feet. And a hollow part behind the false back to cover plug sockets. They are french cleated to the walls, at 60 degrees instead of 45 because they are almost square in cross section and would likely pull off the wall.
Here are some doors and frames that I made too. I also put up the stud wall inside the room on the right. It was just a bathroom, now it's a bathroom and a boiler cupboard.
Enjoy,
Craig
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You look very snappy in the jeans and smart shirt (unlike the poor man behind you with the eyesight problem). I go to work in dirty combat trousers and one of my many, many PVA-enhanced t-shirts. I have one or two that I think are approaching bullet-proof, fire-retardant, abrasion-resistant etc.. ;D