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Things have changed enormously for woodworkers over the last 40 years. Here are a few examples, with less visible ones coming next week.

One of my current jobs involves matching the finish of my clients' original early-20th-century trim. Here's how I came up with a recipe.

Because I specialize in work for period interiors, many of the kitchens and built-ins I make for houses from the early 20th century have inset doors hung on traditional butt hinges. By [...]

Kitchen designer Johnny Grey is one of those whose work has been so widely influential that the link between design and designer has in many cases been broken.

We all have our influences, whether we’re aware of them or not–those people and works that make an impression so powerful they shape our own designs. I have strong memories of mine. [...]

Plate racks are practical pieces of kitchen furniture that also happen to be delightfully decorative.

There’s nothing like building a prototype to offer insights into methods of construction, as well as aesthetic nuance. Having finished this plate rack, I now have several changes in mind [...]

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This summer I spent a couple of weeks driving around the East Coast delivering furniture, giving talks related to English Arts & Crafts Furniture and Making Things Work, and photographing [...]

There are lots of methods for handling curved work–steam-bending, band sawing sections out of hefty timber, and bent lamination, to name just three. For a current commission, I’m using a [...]

I’ve been working out of town for three of the four last weeks, with precious little time in my shop. So instead of writing about joinery, finishing, or any of the other usual topics, this [...]

Every job has challenges, but some jobs involve a set of conditions that combine to create a challenge far greater than the sum of the parts. I recently completed a commission that qualifies; [...]