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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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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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