Built-in joinery
The Tree House
A joinery-led project for a family, running from arched birch built-ins through the bedrooms to a cedar-shingled treehouse in the woods behind the garden.
Chattanooga, TN
The work
Most of this job is built-in work, and most of it is for children. Arched birch shelving runs against a pale blue wall in one room and around a bed in pink in another. A bunk bed is built in with its ladder and desk integrated rather than bolted on, and the shelf returns and ladder joinery are cut to the same tolerance as a kitchen.
The great room is the counterweight. It is vaulted, with a wall of windows onto the garden, and it is anchored by a sculptural table in plaster and green glass with curved seating around it. The edge detail on that table is where the plaster and the glass meet, and it is the piece we get asked about most.
Then there is the treehouse itself, standing in the woods on a timber stair, clad in hand-laid cedar shingles. It is a small structure and it was built with the same approach as the house: laid by hand, course by course, on the assumption it has to survive the weather for a long time.
Built-in bunks
Birch bunk beds with ladder and desk integrated into the joinery, not fixed on afterwards.
Arched birch shelving
Runs of curved built-in shelving cut to the room, in birch against pale blue and pink walls.
Hand-laid cedar
The treehouse elevation shingled by hand, course by course, on a timber stair rising into the woods.
What this job involved
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