Dylan Law Cabinetry

We're blown away by the awesome work of local Wellington cabinet maker, Dylan Law. His specialty is laminating pieces of fabric under resin and setting them into his work to create truly one of a kind pieces of furniture. Follow him over here and be totally inspired!

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A Custom Designed Privacy Screen

Just before Christmas we commissioned our lovely joiner, Terry to make a room dividing/privacy screen for a client of ours.

The timber frame has been lacquered in Resene 'Bianca', and the fabric panel inserts are James Dunlop 'Jardin' poppy on the fronts, with plain, crisp white outdoor grade fabric on the backs to add some protection from the sun reflecting off of Wellington harbour outside.

We were so pleased with how it turned out, and the client was too!

Custom Made Desk

Check out this awesome desk custom made by our joiner, Terry. A lovely client of ours came to us with some images and ideas of the sort of thing she was looking for but just couldn't find - so we worked together to create this retro vibe desk from lightly white washed solid oak with turned legs and lacquered drawer front on push catch runners.

Eleanor's House - Jack's Bedroom

In my first blog about my home I showed a sneek peek of a corridor in our house that we had great plans for - it has now been transformed into a bedroom for our 12 year old son, Jack.

The corridor was 1.8m wide and 4.2m long with a porch of the end adding a further metre. A challenging shaped space especially when wanting to fit a double bed, storage and a desk in.

This is the existing porch which we enclosed in and removed the orginal victorian door and surround from (we are saving this for a later project somewhere else in the house).

The above porch not only gave protection from the NW winds but it also has amazing views across the harbour up to Mount Kaukau opposite.  Perfect for distracting a studying teenager, so this was the best area for a desk - north facing - great all day sun.

Just incase you are wondering how we now get into our house after removing the door the house also has another main front door on a verandah to the west side of the house!

Here is the internal view of the door before it was removed.

...and the corridor looking into the house.

With the entrance ramp and door removed, a new double glazed window was installed.

An internal doorway was added in the hallway - watch this space to see what we have planned for this....

et voila.....a bedroom was formed.  Beautiful blonded solid ash timber stairs lead up to a platform bed,  together with in-built timber joinery - all of which was built by our very talented joiner, Terry - Thank you.



Jack now has somewhere for everything - his desk area is not installed yet so I will post images once it's in.

He also has a world map on his wall - planning his big OE. (world map available from esdesign).

New Mahogany Tables!

Our favorite joiner has been busy making a new range of solid mahogany tables with a retro feel. These are in store now - come and check them out!