Well, I managed to miss the whole month of April on this blog, so I thought I’d post an update for those of you who follow it.

My own path has been moving further from remodeling and toward woodworking, cabinetry, and now furniture.

(I have a mental hierarchy in my mind that goes like this: trim carpentry graduates to cabinetmaking, which is below furniture building.  Then at the top is musical instruments or maybe the “arrow carver”?? See Cole Porter on that one.)

Anyway, I’m in that transitional phase between cabinetry and furniture.  Here’s a piece I built recently.  This was not a completely solo effort, but it was mostly my baby.

The other big development, and somewhat related, has been the recent opportunity to go deeper with CNC-based woodwork and design.  (Translation: programming a robot to do lots of your work for you.)  For good or ill, this is the future.  Hopefully in future entries you’ll get to see some work created on this machine.

In Spring of 2003, a deck builder stated to me that, here in Chattanooga, a cheap treated pine deck would cost $10 per square foot and a good one (structurally good, not necessarily fancy), would cost $15. I would multiply those numbers by 1.5 today to account for inflation and the rise in materials prices after the discontinuation of arsenic-treated lumber. Obviously, the synthetic deck materials would add to that.

We were preparing a 100 year old heart pine floor for refinishing and it was accidentally inundated with water. (more…)

… then start your project in January.

No, I’m not kidding. (more…)

Hello gang!

In response to popular demand for a simpler, more concise web address, I have registered FineRemodel.com and am going to migrate our existing content to it over the next few months. Hopefully it will make our info a little easier for folks to find.

So, pass the word that this is the new location.

Thanks,

Nathan