Stratton Magazine – Southern Vermont's Journal of Living

Stratton Magazine – Southern Vermont's Journal of Living

Celebrating Southern Vermont for 45 Years… In Every Season

Artists Palette

All the Pretty Pool Tables »

I’ve been making pool tables now since about 1989 …. hmmm almost 25 years?  Seems like a blink.  I was first captivated by pool in high school, at the bowling alley, at Fry’s, the luncheonette with two pool tables ‘in the back’, one for an open 9 ball game (50 cents and a dollar) and …

Antique Table Repair »

It didn’t take too long to go from the basket case above to the reenergized table below.  Good for another 100 years if my clients can keep the movers away from it. It was hard for us to imagine quite how it ended up in the shape above, but it looks good now.  We can’t …

Cherry Side Tables »

Here’s a quick little project—a pair of cherry side tables. A little trickier than it looked at first, but happy in it’s new home now.  The challenge was to make a pair of tables for either end of a couch in a 30 degree bump out in a client’s home.  We made a quick, screwed together …

A Really Old Friend »

Now this piece is what you would call a REALLY old friend.  I actually made this cherry and ash piece, according to the client, in 1980, my first full year in the custom furniture business.  The client was a friend who started and owned a successful art gallery and custom framing business at the time.  …

The Spaces We Make »

We make furniture, one piece at a time, it’s true, but, we also sometime make spaces, often intimate and personal spaces, that can have a deep meaning for us and for the clients we work with. I visited the space in the photo above yesterday, to discuss some new work in an upstairs office, and …

Round Cherry Dining Table »

We finished this 42″ round cherry pedestal table today.  It’s a smaller, simpler table than its inspiration in the photo below.  We made that one, which opened up and had three leaves in the early 2000′s.  This client eliminated the painted details and simplified the inlay design, but it’s still a handsome piece.  Click the …

Custom Walnut Sideboard »

Well, we’re coming down the home stretch on this one … it’s walnut, and Sam is nearly finished welding and polishing the steel base …click the photos to enlarge them .. We started with the client’s very detailed drawing with measurements that she kindly sent to start the dialog … most folks are not this …

Showerhenge … Forgotten Rules of Architecture »

One of the often overlooked rules of architecture is to “always site your house so that the sun shines into the shower on the winter solstice”.  This lets you know exactly when the days will be getting longer.  This rule was even overlooked, as far as I know, by famous architectural idea organizers like Christopher …

Phillip Johnson Builds a Gingerbread House »

Well, I really wasn’t trying to copy his glass house.  Kit just asked me if I wanted to make a gingerbread house, and, if I did, what kind of walls did I need.  Over the last 20 years or so, we have made a few basic styles, but this year I thought I would go …

Double Pedestal Oval Table »

This project started with an inquiry from a client who had taken a image from my blog or website and PhotoShopped it himself to make it into something that better fitted the dimensions of his dining room.  Basically, he stretched out the table below and added another pedestal.  Brilliant, in my opinion. Even though it …

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