AMAZING TALENT

Cabinet from Caravati's

   
    Check out this facebook link.  Our kitchen cabinets are being installed and our cabinetmaker Roy is doing a fantastic job.  He has incorporated an early 1900 kitchen cabinet from a home on Three Chopt Rd. that we got from Caravati's  and 4 old corbels I picked up at Paul's Place, both local antique and salvage shops.  In addition, Roy has used the last bit of bead board, original to the house and leftover from building the stair well wall, to line the back of the book shelf area on the kitchen island.

Original bead board recycled as backing for bookshelves in kitchen island

Corbels shelved at Paul's Place

My kitchen is going to be so beautiful I am eager to begin enjoying it all the time.

*  Roy, if you are reading this, look at the shamrock corbels on the shelf next to the ones you put in my island!  Are they calling out "HOFFERT,  TAKE ME HOME!" ?

GOING UP !

     The view from the peak of my house is unique.......a point of view I will perhaps not have ever again.  I went up the other day on the lift the painters are using to work on my house in order to angle grind numerous protruding nails and to remove hardware left behind by old telephone wires.

Here is a taste of what I saw.

STILL RECYCLING

    It was a beautiful day here on Hawthorne Avenue and I chose to do a little more recycling.  Remember the corbels from the other day?  Time to get them in shape in order to pass them on to the cabinet maker.  These 4 corbels will be used as brackets for the counter on the kitchen island.

CORBELS AND WOODCUTS

    For a little while now I have been keeping an eye out for a set of 4 old corbels to be used on the kitchen island.  I have not been looking for any particular design.  It is difficult enough finding a set of 4 and even more difficult finding a set of 4 in relatively good condition.  Today was my day.  I found 4 fantastic corbels at Paul's Place

A little elbow grease required but essentially solid

A happy coincidence  I discovered just a moment ago when I was looking at a photo of the stairs at Hawthorne Avenue.....

A similar pattern in the woodcut trim on the stairs