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Handmade Interiors |
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Price List: Architectural Elements
Other Work: Stringed Instruments |
Caroline Sly PO Box 313 Ashfield, MA 01330 413-628-0130
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New Work For Old Houses Windows, Doors, Cupboards, and Paneling |
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Specializing in 18th
century houses of the New England region |
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We respond to the beautiful rooms of the eighteenth
century as harmonious compositions resonating with balance and liveliness.
Designing rooms like those requires a sympathetic and experienced
extension of that same harmony. Building them is best done with the
skilful use of period tools. I have been restoring eighteenth and nineteenth
century houses since I moved to western Massachusetts in 1968, using hand
tools of the period to recreate the old designs. The landscape is still
full of old houses built by settlers from Cape Cod and the rest of coastal
New England, similar to the early houses I knew growing up near Boston.
Many of them have been damaged or altered over 200 years, and need
informed restoration to recapture their original beauty. |
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I have also built a number of new houses in the old
styles, using hand planes and discovering the pleasure of building with
really beautiful clear white pine from local forests. I have also
discovered the treasure trove of regional differences. It has become a
source of the greatest pleasure to restore, repair, or recreate paneling,
doors, window trim or cupboards following the style original to each house
and reveling in the differences from one locality to the next. |
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I work alone in a small shop. My calling is to
contribute architectural woodwork that is not only beautiful and well made
but affordable and true to the house it is to go to. I encourage you to
enter into the design phase of this work with me. In buildings and in
furniture, the best pieces come of collaboration between owner and
builder. |
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