Today the whole family took a trip into Richmond Heights to meet Bill and Julie Newberry to talk about the design of our newel posts at the new house. They first showed us around the "green" town home they built and currently have for sale. It was beautiful. It was neat to compare notes on green construction. We knew when we walked up we were in good hands since all the woodwork you see above was done by them.
They then took us to the woodworking workshop in the basement of the adjacent town home. It was a pretty neat operation they have. They showed us some examples of what they have done and the type of wood they use. They let us know our posts are going to be made from quarter sewn oak...should make a beautiful set of posts. The original design for the posts were not going to work with our railings and spindles so they came up with a couple of new designs to compliment our craftsman theme. It may be hard to make out on the picture, but we decided on the drawing on the right to be the design for the posts.
Above is the stack of quarter sewn oak that will be used to make our posts. If anyone is interested in what Bill and Julie can do please check out their website, http://www.newberryfurniture.com/. We are excited to be working with local artisans that obviously puts a lot of care into what they do.
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