The Mary Carr Project

Recently we took on a commission for a customer to make a rustic farmhouse vanity and custom sink. The customer, Mary Carr, has an ancient old cabin up in Cedar Mountain, N.C. and she had the tiniest bathroom for which she needed this vanity. This is just the kind of project we enjoy and gladly took it on. Our in house woodworker, Jim Trapp, headed out with Mary's rough sketches and came back a few week's later with a fine piece indeed.

Handmade House: A Treasure for Artists

I recently had the fortune to participate in a project known in the Asheville area as The Handmade House. The HandMade House at the Ramble represents a unique partnership between HandMade in America, a non-profit coalition of Western North Carolina artists and craftspeople, and Biltmore Farms, one of the region's most respected real estate development firms. The idea behind this project is to create a showplace residence that demonstrates the value, measured in both commercial and aesthetic terms, of integrating the ideas of thoughtful builders and gifted artists. The House will be on display October 11 - November 9, 2008. To make the Showhouse a reality one hundred artists from the North Carolina mountains worked hand in hand with architects, landscapers, and construction crews to create a model of collaboration that can be replicated not only in the region but throughout North Carolina and the nation.

A Sampling of Our Past Designs and Projects