STEAMPUNK SHELVING

    Guided by Wallace's ideas, Roy Hoffert of Hoffert Furniture and Cabinetry has constructed this shelving to house Wallace's vinyl and CD collection.  Using stock lumber, plumbing pipe, and beautiful heart pine, Roy has done it again!  

Pipes and heart pine shelves

 

CD shelving

We are, yet again, fantastically happy customers. 

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH !

    Up to my elbows once again in turpentine and linseed oil, prepping interior doors to return to their rightful places, I received a text from my cabinet maker.  It was this photo ...

AAAAHHHHHH !  I love it.

Roy made this window to fill the longstanding void on the front of the house.   I have to say again how thrilled I am to be working with Hoffert Furniture and Cabinetry.

March 2011,  Closing day on Hawthorne Avenue

July 2012,  New window is fitted into place in my studio

BEFORE & AFTER: MUSIC ROOM

BEFORE: Music room, west wall
February 2011

Before: Music Room , south wall
February 2011

AFTER: Music room, west wall
December 2012

What used to be a radiator on the west wall of this room is now the location of a new door which opens onto a 14 x 17 2nd floor deck atop the new addition on the back of the house.  Wallace designed and Roy Hoffert fabricated the sturdy industrial shelving.

Deck off of the music room

AFTER: Music room, south wall
December 2012

No lack of auditory stimulation in this house.  You name a music  genre, he probably has at least a "taste" of it.  I hear tell there is a form of cataloging to the collection but I have not figured it out yet.

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!" ?

CHECK IT OUT

  The install of the library shelving began last week.  

Roy Hoffert, 

kitchen cabinet-maker extraordinaire,

 has designed, crafted and is now installing  the shelving.  

Cabinets are unloaded using a ramp to the porch

The largest of the sections ekes around the newel post & through the library doorway

Floors are protected every step of the way

Bun feet and shelves - underside

Upper cabinets

This old house continues to give Roy a run for his money.  As was the case when installing the kitchen cabinets and the music room shelving, neither walls nor floors are level.  This presents a particular challenge that would have caused many men to run, perhaps screaming, from this job....but not Roy.  While he said he was a little stressed trying to make it work, one would never know it.

Not only has Roy built this piece of furniture from scratch, but also he has had to weave in 2 antique pieces Wallace and I picked up.

Amidst the tools is an old file cabinet and glass doors to an antique cupboard 

Antique glass front cupboard built into shelving unit

The library is almost complete.  Stay tuned for final photos.