The House Whisperer

 

 

Custom shoji screens built in Maple with 1 mm Warlon laminated paper and inlaid Ebony door pulls. Each shoji is 35-3/8" x 75-5/8" x 1-3/8".

Below Elvis stepped in for scale. He is 6 ft tall.

 

Detail of stile/top rail/kumiko

Middleton

 

Beech shoji screens with 0.3 mm Opaque White Warlon and Ebony door pulls to span an opening 83" x 81-5/8". Surface mount track install with floor tracking. 

Ludlow Too

 

We are fortunate to have many repeat clients, thank you!

 Here are two shoji made for a client's new home, built in beech with a beech panel

and our fancy Kumiko pattern 18.  We used 0.45 white Warlon laminated paper 

as "Zack" (a small dog) proofing. 

These shoji fit over sliding glass exterior doors, and the shoji propped in front goes in a horizontal window over the doors.

Most shoji look similar from 10 feet away- color of wood or design will show, but not the quality of construction. So, we included these shots to show some very closeup detail. The pencil point gives some scale- first up are some kumiko ends, note the tiny clean beveling. It finishes the work nicely, the cherry on top, so to speak.

This shows how accurately we inlay Ebony pulls.

Here are some details of the tight joinery in the kumiko grids When we put them together, there is a little click or squeak -they are tight! The camera was about three inches away when these were taken.

Wampler & Sons

Beech shoji screens with 0.45 White Warlon laminated paper and inlaid Ebony door pulls.

 The wood ledger, track and valance assembly.  The ledger screws to the wall , the screw heads will be inside the groove shown in the ledger. Then the valance clips to the ledger with the metal "french cleats". The end of the valance is mitered to return to the wall and cover the end of the ledger and track.   A neat clean system for a barn door type tracking ,where the shoji side over a wall face.

 

The assembly all together, viewed from the underside.