Mahogany Cabinet Doors. Part 2

These photos are a little late in posting, but here are the final photos of the mahogany doors and drawers in action. With custom cabinet faces, marble counters, under mount sinks, and custom mirror frames.

Rockscape With Prescape

Your Houston Handyman and Prescape Houston join forces again. 

As always it was a pleasure working with Mike from Prescape Houston to transform this back yard, front beds and driveway with beautiful and low maintenance rock-scapes. Combining decomposed granite, flagstone, black star, marble boulders and some hard work. See for yourself. 

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Restoring a Gate From the 1800s

The Gate as it was Delivered

This Gate, (originally built in the 1800s) was delivered to my shop in the condition you see to the right. Even the joints that were still held together were more bonded by paint and rusted nails then by the integrity of the wood. Under the paint, even the apparently salvageable areas were a rotted mess. In this case, I opted to create a replica instead of attempting to repair the existing gate.

The first step would be to reassemble the gate with the fragments I had, so I could begin the replication process as accurately as possible. The result is what you see here. As is evident int he picture, the posts to either side of the gate were in need of work as well. I am told the original posts were not cemented in, merely buried, as a result they rotted off from ground level down.

Some assembly required.

So I started with a hefty stack of Douglas Fir, a common lumber for exterior doors and windows. Then starting from the center and working my way outward, I began to copy the gate one piece at a time.

With this one all I had to do was build it and prime it, the delivery and installation falls to another crew. But there you have it, a complete replica complete with the curly bit on top. (and yes, "curly bit" is the technical term.)