Different Doors
From time to time somebody comes along and says “I don’t want 15 matching doors in my barn conversion, can you do something a bit different”
Welcome to the “bit different” page.
The door in the top left picture was made using some lovely waney edged burr oak off cuts mixed with a bit of English red elm we managed to find. It is hung using wrought iron H hinges and secured with a wrought iron replica Victorian Suffolk latch.
The door pictured next to this used, as its central feature, 2 planks from a hatchway in the barn through which a rope had been passed in order to raise and lower buckets of grain. We used a piece of stained glass in the worn gap that had been created over the years and filled in the rest with sections of old elm flooring on which the chickens had spent the previous 40 years.
The English red elm door is just that – using waney edged boards to make the ledges and bracing. Every door is different but this theme runs through them all.
The last door is possibly a touch weird. The customer loved it – so that is all that matters. We did use some wood from the original barn – in this instance some old window sills that had pretty well rotted through on the edges and yes, some twigs ripped out of Mum’s hedge, the rest came from the leftovers of a pippy oak butt that we bought specifically to make the stairs with.
Burr Oak and English Red Elm |
Brown Oak and Reclaimed Elm |
English Red Elm |
Reclaimed Oak and twigs from Mums garden |
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