Monday, December 1, 2014

Braverman

Custom Shoji doors to span 71-3/4" by 79-1/4" with 2.0 mm Warlon Acrylic insert material.

Inlaid Ebony door pulls.
We use a black dye instead of a stain, so a bit of wood grain
shows through, then a clear top coat.





Monday, October 27, 2014

Garden building with a Japanese style

Pictures sent from a client of his almost completed garden with a covered 'grilling station' using our shoji screens.






Shoji Surprise



Stained Beech shoji screens with 2.0 mm White Warlon Acrylic insert material and inlaid Ebony door pulls. These are 94-3/4" tall, standard height shoji are slightly visible on the right side of the picture for a comparison. Bedroom doors for a surface mount track.These are a surprise for our client's wife.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Whaley

Beech Shoji screens with Beech lower door panels, kumiko pattern #6 and 0.3 mm Opaque White Warlon Paper. The two middle Shoji doors are fixed and the two outside Shoji are the bathroom and the laundry room entry doors. A very elegant pattern, each horizontal section within the kumiko is the same size as the panel.

Inlaid Japanese Cherry door pull.

We took these photos to show some of the things we think sets our shoji shop apart. The wall  has a 1" recess where the fixed shoji go (the middle ones in the photo above), and that created quite the install challenge since the shoji are 1 3/8" thick! We had to make some special trim parts.

This is the wood blocking that supports the aluminum upper tracking. In this photo the parts are laid flat, That black screw holds the assembly to the wall. The groove in the wood blocking or 'beam' makes it easier to install as the screw can go anywhere there is blocking in the wall, no need to countersink for the screw head- easy peasy!

This shows the "french cleat" (the interlocking metal clips) used to attach the valance to the track mounting block. This allows easy install and removal of the valance.

This is the mitered return on the valance, it returns back to the wall.

These are specially cut jambs for this job.

Friday, August 29, 2014

Freestyle Interiors Install


Faith Fix of Freestyle Interiors in FL sent us this picture of our shoji screens installed in her client's home. Here's a link to the quick shop picture we did before the shoji shipped out. 
Thank you Faith for the great picture.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Tennessee

We love seeing pictures of our clients handiwork and these were so nice we had to post them. Paul bought Warlon paper and some fancy Sugatsune hinges from us and made window coverings for his living room. 



His view of the Cumberland Mountains.


Thank you Paul for sending us pictures.



Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Shoji install with ranma (or upper fixed shoji)

Quick shoji install pictures taken with a phone actually. Here's a link to the shoji mock-ups we did to narrow down what the clients were looking for. The contractor sent us these photos before all the trim was installed. These shoji are somewhere in Pittsburgh, PA.