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Like you guys we made some from a picture and the rest designed around concepts.
What does this situation in my life ask of me?
We layed out the stairs around the posts we built.
What does this situation in my life ask of me?
did you primer all of that trim/cabinetry before or after and what did you use how did you do it if you even did the painting? And with work like that you must be really busy. Also did you work off of a drawing? or did you design it?
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
We only build it, painters make it look good.
We had some pictures out of a magazine and we designed the rest from ideas the builder had... like most of the guys here do. What does this situation in my life ask of me?
Super nice, crisp, and balanced. Looks like lots of joy went in to it.
Forrest
Nice work- you're customer should be very happy.
I'm gonna "borrow" that pic of the fireplace mantle with the raised hearth to show a customer of mine. She can't make up her mind what she wants, partly because she can't visualize the finished product.
Your pic should help me.
Beautiful!
How many hours before paint?
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevski
TC
A couple things, first, the work looks great, second, You gotta learn to resize!
If you post pictures this big the dial-up folks wont be able to see your work, that would be a shame, you have some impressive photos here.
I resized them for everybody to see.
Doug
that would have been a shame to miss this...
thanks for the resize....
TC
nice...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
The rest of them;
Tell us a bit about the house. So many built ins. So many window seats. Must be a very large house. Also seems to be a very traditional colonial.????
Nice clean looking work. Not exactly decorated in my favorite style, but, man I like all the nooks.i'm curious about the double handrails on the lower flight, how come?I like those square tread returns, simple yet elegant<G>Must have been fun to work it. I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Somebody must be sucking in some MDF particles. Nice work.
Doug thanks for resizing for me, I usually post at JLC and don't have to resize.
Total hours to trim was approx 800 hours for both of us.
The house is a pretty large model that the builder will use for the next four years at his new track.
Cough...cough....dust? Bucket and buckets of MDF dust.
I like to have a handrail on one side (Left or Right) So the same hand grabs the rail. There was a window in the way along the right wall from the landing to the second floor so the rail had to go on the right. We made it continuous because the house was in a show (30,000 people supposedly went through it) and thought it would be worth the extra time.
Nice catch on the squared treads and square "cove", we designed the posts with that detail in mind also.
What does this situation in my life ask of me?