Mantle and Entry Door in Iowa!

Since the 30th of August we have been working on two jobs and not small jobs I might add. The kitchen and wet bar in the last post and this post which consists of all the pictures below and more which I didn't take pictures of. The home which we did this mantle and front door in we also did a Quarter Sawn Oak Kitchen, see previous posts. This family has had a lot of problems this summer with their air conditioning and it ended up warping all the trim in their newly renovated basement. So they asked us to come down and replace all the trim around the windows and doors and all of the base trim. As we were discussing and planning when to go down to fix everything the upstairs new addition started having the same problems. So we ended up not only doing the basement but also the upstairs addition as well. Just a side note, whenever varnishing anything always remember to varnish/seal the wood on all sides otherwise this is what happens, the wood sucks up the moisture on the unsealed side and begins to warp and twist causing tons of problems! From the upstairs new addition we moved into the living room and the entry way. The existing mantle was also damaged so we built a new one almost like the old one but Randy added a few new things and we built a new entry door. This door is not bought from anywhere Randy built the whole thing, side panels, door and frame. We also did some work for another family in town, some small trimming in of windows and doors, hung two closet doors, fixed some older doors in the home and built two cherry benches for them to match their dinning room set. This family has 6 children and his work is taking them to Germany for 3 years so they were trying to get the house in order so that they can lease it out while they are gone. So needless to say we have had an extremely busy 10 weeks and we are very glad to be back home and done with jobs for a little while. Randy is especially happy because deer hunting is starting this weekend and he always looks forward to that. I also have to give my husband a lot of credit for how much work he has gotten done in these last few months because he also holds down a 40 hour a week job at a door plant here in town. So he is very happy to be looking forward to some time off to go chase some deer and hopefully bag a big buck. So enjoy the following pictures and if there is anyone else out there going hunting good luck and be safe!

Here is an example of one of the windows Randy trimmed in.

And the outside of the oak entry door.

The inside of the entry door.

Man at work!

New mantle-Quarter Sawn Oak.

And one of the cherry benches.