This is an example of our popular "Double Roofed Post Lantern."  This post lantern was designed to the client's specifications including dimensions, copper finish and choice of diffuser.

Zoltan and I worked from a pencil drawing of his concept. I then brought my expertise in joinery and CNC machining to help resolve the need for a timely completion date. 

 We executed Zoltan's design in reclaimed native Texas pecan with powder-coated steel accents and structural components. The pecan was harvested on Onion Creek in Austin. The logs were cut on my sawmill and dried in the kilns located at my shop on 730 Shady Lane . 

This sundial was made for a private garden.

The interlocking forged steel design of this entry gate echoes ancient Celtic symbols of well-being and honors the owner's Irish ancestry.

This main entry gate for a large hilltop property in west Austin draws on botanical forms while reflecting the movement of water from nearby Lake Austin.

Here is a cusotm car retreat I built for a homeowner who needed another spot to park in.  The design matched the existing fence ornament in the front of the home. A beautiful copper roof tops the structure.

This fence, pedestrian gate, and sliding driveway gate are a part of my house and shop.  I live across the street form a busy convenient store, and was looking to have a as much privacy as possible and to eliminate a lot of the sound.  Mission accomplished. 

This door was designed and commissioned by Alterstudio Architects for a new house.  The entire residence is low-key, modern, and solid.

These doors required a technical feat.  Griffin and Heather were building the house of their dreams.  They wanted their new doors to contain lumber from fallen trees on their land.  That was not difficult.  Texas Kiln Products provided the milling and kiln-drying.  Live oak lumber is gorgeous and exotically figured.  However, it is notoriously unstable.  It won't stay flat, which is not good for doors.  I milled the live oak to 1/4" thickness and glued it to a marine-grade substrate, first covering the egdes of the plywood with live oak nosing.  The doors look like solid lumber, but are shop-built composites that stay very flat indeed.

Griffin and Heather also found large quartz rocks on the property.  I located a lapidary who sliced the stones to 3/8" thick and polished the surfaces. 

I designed the doors with a woven pattern of structural rails.  Light passes through the glass and quartz panels.  Visitors can be seen from afar, descending the hill to the entry way.