The Heat of Summer

We are in the midst of our hottest weather of the year here in Maine. It's 90 degrees or more today; most of the Kennebunks are filing into the beach to cool off in waters that for the first time all year feel refreshing as opposed to achingly cold.

The workshop is busy with varying projects. We are building quite a few residential orders, as well as completing some work for Princeton University.
We've just completed these little gems for an interior designer friend and her client...

The Studio Coffee Table is a standard design in our catalog. For this client we built it in Walnut and finished it with a custom stain. It's a beautiful, rich chocolate brown and the Walnut grain shows through perfectly. The rich brown is set off by the stainless lifts that hold the tabletop suspended from the base.

Our client approached us with a pretty solid design idea for these custom end tables, which Bill Huston tweaked and sketched until they were just right. Again, built in Walnut with the same custom stain. I have a great fondness for these little tables. I think they would look lovely in my own living room and perhaps I'll have to have some of my own someday! Meanwhile, these are on the way to their new home on Monday morning.

It's Saturday, so the workshop is still. It's deliciously cool in there, so I wandered in to take some pics of works in progress. Here are some Studio Tables waiting to be finished on Monday. These are "extras" that will be available for sale in our showroom: coffee, end and console tables.

The garden is growing strong. Nasturtiums are bright and cheery and calling to be added to a summer salad. Tomatoes are on the vine and turning. I did notice that someone has been enjoying a few of the tomatoes while still green - someone likely with four legs and lots of fur - a fox maybe, or a rabbit. They take the fruit from the vine, have a cool little snack and leave the rest on the ground.

Fortunately, we are too busy with furniture to worry much about that.