This design came about by collaborating with the client who happens to be a financial adviser but formerly a woodworker himself.
It was first conceived as an idea derived from an amazing tree with buttress-like roots that may be a baobab, Adonsonia.

The desk faces the rooms entrance and we needed to create a front panel. I have a carving technique that can be done fast so I offered this to keep it interesting and organic.

The small drawer is shown partially extended. The desk does came with a stand to elevate the computer tower a few inches off the floor.
This desk is made with rare burl mahogany but any wood you prefer will do.

This is a close-up of the wood desk top with the custom wood grommet to pass the computer monitor cable. You can also see the dovetail that locks the top to the leg. In fact, he desk is held together entirely with dovetails and assembled in just 3 minutes. If you live far away from my workshop and would like a desk like this, in any wood, it can be shipped in a large flat box right to your door.

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This is a custom-made door for an office building under renovation. It was made to match existing doors in the office using solid maple.
This is an example of why a custom interior door has to be built instead of ordering one from a door manufacturer.

I had to copy the existing doors exactly, including using these soss type hinges.
They are not adjustable and installing them requires precise cutting with templates.

Every detail down to the woodgrain, color, glass and door entry set had to be exactly like the existing.
The door stop is integrated with the door jamb so it was important to get the door plumb to close correctly.

Perfect and on schedule. The completed door is very heavy but since it was pre-hung and pre-finished before being installed it went in quickly.

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This is a desk I was commissioned to design and build using locally harvested Miami wood, salvaged from hurricane damaged trees.

These blocks in the foreground are the pieces to be used for the custom executive desk.

Each chunk of wood will be sawn into lumber. This wood has verious names, Albezzia, West Indies Walnut.

After being sawn the boards are planed and sorted for the next step of laminating and other joinery. Any pieces that possess especially pretty grain will be placed for the best visuals.

This is one side of the desk after assembly and before the finish is applied.

The finished product after about a month of work. The left 2 lower drawers are actually only 1 to hold a printer.
You can see the special wavy grain selected for the posts.

The top has an inlay of some native royal palm. The desk’s owner wanted to match a pattern with the marble floor’s design and this is what I did.
Time was spent selecting just the right pulls that work with the chrome trim that wraps the base.

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Here is another home work station that I designed and built for some nice people in Coral Gables, Florida. In this case it is painted a low sheen, brilliant white.

The customer specified to include louvers to match those in the room already.

This image shows the wall unit behind the clients desk, with added display art and wall mounted TV.

The chair is swung around from the big desk and keyboard pulled out. You can see the computer monitor now revealed behind the louver doors but the tower .

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This is a little project which I was very happy to resolve for the customer. I was referred to this couple by an old customer who owned a sailboat.

Boat interiors always need clever ways to use very limited space inside. Before these glass shelves and accent lights existed, the customer had two dead space cavities behind fixed kitchen cabinet panels. They new what they wanted and just needed someone to have the same vision to build them.

This is the 1st of two kitchens in the same building, the Grovenor in Coconut Grove, that I was asked to modify.

On the second job, the person heard about what I had done for the 1st and then had her own ideas about what to do with the un-used space.
In high rise building all the kitchens are made the same….. so,

You can see the original cabinet fill piece here…

…and now with a large pull-out spice rack behind the panel. The spice racks/shelves are both adjustable and open on two sides.

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With this bathroom remodeling project, the interior designer, Paradigm Interiors, wanted the cabinet suspended off the floor and the drain pipe exposed.

There are only 2 cabinets with a shelf and drawer connecting them. Yes, there is a 3rd drawer in the middle that is fitted around the pipe.

I installed a strong board from wall to wall to provide support for the heavy stone countertop, as well a a very shallow shelf behind the faucet.

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The customer who called my workshop for this project is retired and loves to read. I know this because 6 years before I had built 18ft long, floor to ceiling bookcases for him.

He buys a lot of books. The only problem with that is there’s only so much wall space in his condominium for both his framed art and books, so it was time to get creative.

The only wall left for bookshelves was this curved wall. He asked me, “can you make curved shelves?” to which I replied, “I’m a boat builder, so, yeah, I think I can.”
I made a template of the un-even wall, and came back a couple weeks later and I wrapped the shelves around it. This should keep him busy for another year or two.

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The job involved taking a favorite living room cabinet and adapting it to a new, large HDTV.

This picture shows the new wider center section for the new TV, rear panel and shelves for the cable box, other components, and base.

The top crown piece remained…. I just loosened it and slid the two existing side towers farther apart.

Here you see the piece before the changes. Oftentimes a cherished piece of furniture will need to be changed (more than once) along with our changing technology.

The equipment can now be transfered. I took care to color match the new wood pieces to the old, as well as mimicing the other details on the shelf edges and base.

If you want to shoehorn a bigger, badder TV into a favorite furniture piece, call me to find out how.

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Here is an example of how to make a couple of small improvements to a luxury yacht. This is the  Pilot’s station trimmed out in wood, replacing factory installed vinyl.

This is some of what was installed by the manufacturer of the yacht. I took all the original upholstered pieces back to my workshop and then carefully selected the best mahogany for the refitting.

Before… vinyl covered wood removed.

After, with lacquered mahogany installed. What an improvement !

This curved piece is made up of 3 pieces glued into a large radius, cut on a shaper with a 2″ qtr. round bit.

This interior upgrade was the special touch this chartered luxury yacht needed to impress the guests.

Close-up of the high-polish and single piece, solid wood  trim selected for this boat.

If you think your boat is ready for some special trim work, send me your photos and ask for a free quote.

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I enjoy making desks, even if they are not made of wood.

The customer who came to me sent a picture of one he saw in a magazine.

We changed the size a bit and used tanned leather instead of cow’s fur(?) shown in his photo.

The frame structure is welded rebar, something you normally would not see outside of reinforced concrete.

The beveled edge of the deep drawer produces a nice solid thud sound when it closes. I used an entire hide to completely cover the cabinet and it gives of the familiar pleasant odor of tanned leather into the office where it is used.

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