Project Pictures


Playhouse

This is a playhouse that I built for a customer in Pleasant Hill for their 6 year old. It is 8’Dx12’Wx11’H with a loft inside.
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The loft is 6 feet high and about 4’x7′ area. There will be a ladder built on the wall to access the loft.
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 Here is the progress of the structure being built, going backwards from completed to start. It has 3 windows and the door. The shingles are high heat reflection to reduce heat in the structure. The siding is T1-11
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The walls are insulated from the outside with 2″ foamboard, the roof from the inside with 4″ of high-R foam. There is an airspace behind the siding and under the roof to allow the air to get heated and escape rather than let the heat penetrate the building.
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The walls are sheathed with basic 7/16″ OSB, but the roof has radiant barrier OSB to help protect from the sun.
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The whole building was framed using 2×4 lumber
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The floor joists are filled with foamboard and covered with plastic to help regulate the temperature inside.
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The floor system is 2×4 joists on top of a frame of pressure treated 4×4’s which sit on the concrete footings.

Bathroom

This is a utility room/ laundry room/ weird closet area/ additional rear entrance (the window shown used to be a door to the deck outside, not 5 feet from another door into the main living space. I replaced the other door with a 9 foot triple door- french doors with a full size side-light that I turned into another opening door- and replaced this door with the window shown.) The customer wanted to turn the area into a bathroom with stackable laundry. With the only parameters being ‘make a bathroom here” I was left to design and build a functioning bathroom in this space with room for laundry and separate the utilities.
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I have separated out the pictures of the shower as well as the sink, because it was hard to photograph this small area. These are mostly pictures from the doorway of the entire bathroom, the pictures of specific areas will follow.

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The tile scheme was chosen by me as well, and happily agreed upon by the customer.

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These are double bi-fold louvered doors, behind which is the tankless water heater and radiant heating system – both of which I installed- and the water softener and filters.

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Marmoleum Floor

This is a floor that I covered with a product called Marmoleum, which is an eco-friendly version of laminate flooring. It is a click-together floating floor, but made to mimic the properties of other floating floor materials while also being less harmful to the enviroment.

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Kitchen Island

I did not get a picture before I took the old island apart, but there had been a counter on top of this wall that was covered with 4″ maroon tiles and the customer wanted it made bigger and with a smooth top surface, also altered to accomodate the range and add a few outlets.

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The whole thing was stained to not quite match, but compliment the existing wood in the house.

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Once built, the customer decided to add drawers for storage of pots & pans and other stove-related utensils. These drawers had to be custom-built to fit the size and shape of the island, as well as suit the customers needs.

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Stair Railing

This staircase is in an historic schoolhouse that has been converted into a residence. The stairs were installed to access what used to be the attic of the school house, converted to 2 bedrooms. It was built without a railing and the couple who lived there had a toddler, so they hired me to install a railing to ensure his safety near the stairs.

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Studio Apartment

This is an ongoing conversion of a storage area beneath a garage into a studio apartment. At this point, the apartment has been painted and is being finished. Scroll from the bottom of the page up to see the progress. (The pictures are in groups sorted by the direction the picture was taken, so you will see progression from one angle, then start over from a different angle)

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15×25 Deck

This is a deck that I built on an historic schoolhouse in Vermont. It is mostly ground level, except on one side where the owners had me include a built-in bench/ railing to prevent their toddler from walking off the edge. The video shows a stop-motion progression of the deck being built.

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Outside Staircase

This staircase was built to extend from the house to a flat patio area up the hill in the backyard. The change of direction at the top was to fit the stairs between two tree stumps in the ground, using them as anchors for the stairs as well as the railing- which has yet to be completed.Outside Staircase (1) Outside Staircase (2) Outside Staircase (3) Outside Staircase (4) Outside Staircase (5) Outside Staircase (6) Outside Staircase (7) Outside Staircase (8) Outside Staircase (9) Outside Staircase (10) Outside Staircase (11) Outside Staircase (12) Outside Staircase (13) Outside Staircase (14) Outside Staircase (15)