Custom Garage

A New Garage!

(Imagine Price is Right music here)

Well the snow hasn't melted yet (25 March).  Everyone is sad... but the garage looks great.

This is the existing garage attached to the house.  The new garage was designed as a compliment to it.

Note how the brick stands out slightly from the stucco, creating a rebate.

This feature was imitated on the new garage but without the use of brick.  Brick would require footings at 4' below grade, which would add significantly to the cost.

Instead, we used 2x4 framing at the rebates, and 2x6 framing everywhere else.

All in all a pleasing little structure...

Actually not little at all.  The footprint stands at 20'x32'.  The roof line is achieved with 14" wooden i-beams, so the space is entirely open on the inside.  Approximately 8 1/2' ceiling height at the front, up to 14' at the back!

It's downright voluminous in there!

Now, if the snow would just melt, we could get a new driveway in there...

Designed and built by:

Jacobson Construction

Services provided by:

Bart Sybenga (concrete)

Mark Goddyn Masonry

Randy "Muddy" Waters (stucco)

Sarnia Glass and Aluminum

Nisbet Robertson Surveyors

Robinson Design and Drafting

Wood and Stone

This cellar was a treat to work on, and it looks great too!

Much of the work was done outside the cellar.  A dry-stack charcoal coloured stone with rust highlights dresses the entry wall.  This is complimented by the new wide-plank white oak flooring.

The African mask has been in the client's family for years.  He requested to have us give it a special place so we obliged with a custom redwood niche.

And of course, the custom redwood door with glass insert invites you inside.

The racks themselves are made with all-heart California redwood.  This cellar combines individual bottle storage along with some case storage.

A beautiful redwood veneer countertop and gable lit by track lighting provides a space to taste and talk...

Designed and built by:

Jacobson Construction

Services provided by:

Rosehill Wine Cellars

Hucker Floor Coverings

Mark Goddyn Masonry

Milburn Electric

Mario's Heating and Air Conditioning

Jim Clements Paint

Randy "Muddy" Waters Plaster

Primitive Modern

This set of tables began with an experiment.  The challenge was to go out to my shop and select a few scraps.  Take those scraps and assemble them.  The pieces were not even cut.  The table below is the result.

It has to be one of the strangest things I have ever built.

A bird's mouth was let into the longest leg for the top to sit on.  Then a 3/4" dowel was drilled into the throat and lashed back to the leg.

A jaunty angle.

It must be said that this table would not stand heavy use.  It best purpose may be as a display table for a sculpture of some kind.  But I like it quite a bit.  I have never really seen anything quite like it, and I am not just saying that because I built it.

It's so primitive, it's modern!

A low table of the same design.  I had more scraps, and now the primitive table has a friend!