New Inventory, Photos of a couple custom orders, Alameda announcement

  

 Here is a few photos of new pieces plus some custom pieces we have done recently. Inventory at Alameda will include a few new cabinets, quite a few antique furniture pieces I have restored, and smalls from a recent basement pick in San Rafael. We will be at Alameda on Sunday Dec. 1st in Booths N-2,15. Should be a very nice day, come on out.

Above, a couple of planters plus a cute little outdoor bench/table set. These are made from remilled redwood timbers, reclaimed from various houses, salvage yards, etc. Timbers are often 100+ yrs old, from old growth stock, a far superior material than what is avail. commercially today.

Stained glass window bought at Alameda last month. "Tulips", beautiful I think. Vendor says came out of a basement pick in Oakland.

I found this blue steel shelf unit at Urban Ore, cleaned it up and made the top, added wheels.

Wonderful vintage advertising display piece, from the San Rafael pick. Made new shelves for it, some auto polish and elbow grease brought out the color, nice.

Double leaded glass doors from my Kansas connection, Ron. The beautiful brass handles are antique store handles from ebay, I sniped them from about 10 other bidders at the last second:)

 These leaded glass windows were from the same oakland basement as the Tulip window. Very nice piece.

 Blue steel industrial lab cabinet, from Clorox Corp.! They originally had a stone or cast concrete black top, swapped out for this wood top we made from some very nice 2.5" thick dougfir stock. Cabinet ht. is adjustable.

 These frags used as part of the faceframe on this cabinet came from a pair of gates purchased from SF salvage yard, Builders Resource. Originally in Pacific Hts., I deconstructed the gates and love these parts as raw material. Very nice antique hardware.

 Bought the vintage back end of a school bus at Sacto Flea. Had an idea to make a mirror, but that didnt happen:) We cut some steel sheet stock and fit into the rubber gaskets from the back, the tiles are from vintage scrabble games I have purchased at flea markets, I added magnetic tape to the backs. Would make a very nice cafe menu or???

This display pc. was made for a hat store client. Stock sits on the shelves, mirror above for trying on hats.

 I bought the truck radiator surround at the Sacto flea awhile back. Alot of potential, I thought. Looked it over a few times since I got it back to the shop, but could not wrap my head around what the final result would be. Finally, I just "freestyled" it, went for it and the piece evolved as I built it. Nice "mantique", I believe:) Note the antique radiator cap as a hood ornament, one of the finds from my recent basement pick in San Rafael.

New pieces for Nov., we will have 1 booth at Alameda

 

 We will be at Alameda Sunday Nov 3 in our usual corner booth, N-15. Also announcing two new retail stores carrying Bryan Appleton Designs furniture. One in Palo Alto, on Ramona st., Inhabiture home furnishings. In SF, "Stuff" on Valencia. I will update the link section of the blog to reflect these new additions.

 "Jelly" cabinet, door is old shutter. "Eggs and Darts" is what the pattern of the crown moulding is called. Crown from SF victorian, pattern stolen from the classic greek temples:)

Very nice patina on this old tin locker. On wheels, shelves added.

Found this very cool military box at the flea some time ago, note the copper rivets all over the top. Polished. Added to base to create this nice little industrial nitestand.

Another pair of nitestands, with drawers, also have very nice glass tops. Love the vintage travel stickers, actually found both of these on same day picking, two different vendors.

 Vintage leaded glass door, also very intricate brass victorian era window lock as catch.

 Coffee table, old factory cart was disassembled and wheels used to make this. Part of the Philz coffee order.

 

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This endtable started out as a machine base, had to cut off some extraneous parts. Like the machine:) Polished. Wanted to emphasize the beauty of the polished steel so added the wood into the openings only.

Beatiful vintage leaded/stained glass doors from streetside pick, SF.Arch Frags on faceframe are parts of victorian era gate, disassembled.

I have had this slag glass window in my collection for at least 10 yrs. Worth the wait. Beautiful quarter sawn oak top, trim also, from old dining table. Doug fir faceframe.

Endtables, coffee table, a set

These are called "two toppers" Part of an order for new coffee shop in SSF, Philz coffee on westborough.

Three new benches

 Another coffee table

Popular piece, small desk using ebony on VG dougfir flooring stock, base is steel industrial sewing machine base, polished.

"J" fixture, floor display piece for Philz coffee. Top is to be painted with chalkboard paint for graphics.

From last month. Just love the three of these together. Two on left avail. at Zonal on Hayes in SF. One on right avail. at "Stuff", again, SF

 Wine cabinet. Bought the oak interior part at Salvage yard. Obviously homemade, the unknown carpenter used full 1" thick oak. Yeah, its heavy. I wrapped it with this beautiful vg flooring, black distressed doug fir.

Last month again.Beautiful slag glass doors from colorado. Bought them from vendor at alameda told me he comes out once a yr from CO., everything he sells he donates to SPCA. Pretty cool. Cabinet long gone.

Table made for store on Valencia st. Base was part of an order, glass tabletop was broken so we made this top to go with the industrial base.

Beachy blue coffee table.

Post no. 1 of 2 of new inventory to be shown at Alameda on Sunday Oct. 6, Booths N-2,15

Been awhile since I made a large run of cabinets. Here are some new cabinets to be shown on Sunday, 10/6 at Alameda Antique fair. I will post some more photos later in the week.

First photo, vintage leaded glass panel inset in door, antique cast iron hardware. Next photo is of cabinet made from antique dry sink from Montana. Bought it from a picker at Sacto flea. I removed the top sink portion and built a new top. Completely refurbished, this baby was beat. Good for another 100 yrs:)

side,top view

Here is a chimney cabinet made from 1/2 of a victorian four panel door. Salvaged right here in West Oakland. I cut one of the wood panels out and installed the leaded beveled glass. Nice look. Very sweet hardware, the knob is Bennington clay a very rare color.

Two views of this one. Bought a whole truckload of these windows at SF flea recently. Picker said they came out of Berkeley hills house. Very unusual thick lead. Top is old bleacher seats. Some very nice window locks, victorian.

Made this door using a very nice architectural fragment, a "fretwork" purchased from my friend Ron from Kansas. Some nice beachy blues in this one.

Two views of this one. I am loving this look. Rough sawn doug fir for the faceframe. I put danish oil on it, then a clearcoat. The danish oil really brings out the beauty of this wood. Door is made with an old stained glass panel purchased at Alameda, I added a drawer also. Some very nice antique hardware.

Here is closeup of the antique brass escutcheon and other hardware. Note the griffin on the plate. Very cool.

I call this one "Rusty Lady". The lady was part of a heavy

cast iron "summer door" found in many victorians, they used these to block drafts in fireplaces when not in use. Found at the Sacto flea, very rusty, I deconstructed and then left her that way just laquered to seal. Probably an historical figure, but no idea who she was. The door is constructed from a massive piece of solid mahogany(was a fireplace mantle) found at Urban Ore. Some more of the roughsawn dougfir as the faceframe. Chip carved decorative piece from an old mirror frame.

This one has door made from old beadboard from right here in West Oakland. Architectural fragment on door from Stockton.(dozens of victorians were bulldozed in the 70's to make way for a new freeway, I recently found a warehouse full of salvaged architectural items saved from those dozers.) The cast iron corner pieces are from an old screen door.

side view



side view

The sides of the faceframe on this cabinet were part of an old victorian gate I deconstructed, from pacific hts. in SF. Bellflowers, I think.

Coffee table, the legs are old wooden painters ladder, shelf is a painters "finger plank".

Some nice custom pieces

Large outdoor table made from Afromosia, much like teak.

Here is a custom step back built to be used as a bar. The marble slab came from SF victorian, the metal grills on doors were cut from radiator covers salvaged from Ashbury hts. remodel.

This table has vertical grain doug fir flooring for top. We ran it thru the planer and stained ebony color. Steel edge as trim, cast iron machine base below.

Another dining table from th VG flooring. Fabricated steel base, burnished and laquered. This one is for Philz coffee shop opening soon in SSF.

Custom gates made from Cedar barnwood from Grants Pass, Oregon. The decoritive ironwork is salvaged from vintage fence panels from St. Louis, Mo.