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Full-extension 100-lb. drawer slides The client has an 1829 house with a small kitchen and asked me to create a base cabinet with shelves above it in a corner. The back wall is about 35 " and the walls are not plumb or quite square to each other, but with careful measurements, I was able… Continue reading Cabinet With Sculpted Shelves
In January 2024, the new owner of this 40-year-old contemporary house asked if I could install balusters and risers that would complement the open-design stairs, which are beautiful but inherently unsafe. This was a fun winter project! The stairs before the risers and balusters were added View of the new balusters and risers from the… Continue reading Balusters For an Existing Stairway
The owner of the First Period Jonathan Lummus house in Ipswich aske me to make railings similar to the Parson Barnard house in Andover.
This old house began as a one-room blacksmith's shop. The post and beam construction and low ceilings indicate that it may date to the 18th Century.
My client is an artist and asked me to construct two 8' x 8' rolling display walls for her studio. The frames are constructed of regular 2x4 lumber to which I applied painted 1/2" Homosote boards. The two units can be connected as a single 16' wall.
In his previous home, the orchestra conductor had shelves created to hold his collection of hundreds of scores of sheet music. In 2023 when he and his partner moved to their present 1740 house, the ceilings were lower, and he asked me to resize the shelves to fit. I removed the top row on the… Continue reading Sheet Music Shelves
In the winter of 2023, Bud and Julie, owners of the restaurant Heart & Soul in Ipswich delivered some boards to my shop and asked me if I could build a bar for customers to sit and look out the front window. Heart and Soul co-owner Bud sitting at the new counter the day I… Continue reading Heart and Soul
The owner of a 17th Century house in Topsfield designed a picket fence and had it constructed several years ago. I made this exact replacement.
I built this set of landscape stairs to provide access from the driveway to a finished basement, replacing a rocky temporary path that the owners had been using.
My client had a tabletop, provided a set of turned legs, and I made the skirt. I set a stop on my radial arm saw and raised the blade to cut a kerf 1/4" deep for the apron brackets.
Gordon Harris 