Lavish Loft Ladder and copper hand rails for ADU in Albany, Ca

Copper hand rails. Made from real Jatoba. Treads are morticed into side frame. Backyard ADU in Albany needed access for a loft. This ladder is securely mounted to the wall and the floor. 

Cedar Tellis for rose flower vine to stretch out on

2 years later
El Cerrito Hills
western red cedar

Adding a Privacy Panel or Fence Extension for propogating persimmon vine clones to grow over. Without digging post holes or mixing any concrete!

test fitting all the joints one last time before onsite assembly glue-up
4" redwood strips 1/4" thick weaved into frame

Steam bending the weaved boards was necessary to prevent breaking

Privacy panel was supported by (3) 2 1/2" galvanized steel pipes pile driven >30" below grade. there was no way to dig any post holes or pour cement without destroying the existing vegetation  

6 months later

1 year after installation. Almost seams silly to have weaved anything now.  

New MorningStar XD prefinished bamboo flooring installed throughout the whole house. Solid bamboo not laminated 1100sqft [before and after]

Living room (after) by Stand Out Construction, Richmond CA

Living room (before)

Living/Dining room (before)

Master bedroom (before)

Master bedroom (before)

Second bedroom (before)

Third bedroom (cold hard tile)

New Solid Bamboo floor. No nails. Floating install snap together pre-finished

Living room entry

still finishing floors in the rest of the house
so were using the empty boxes to protect the new floors 

protection removed Living/Dining room. No dust.

Living room w/ new baseboards installed

view from living room looking down hallway to 3 bedrooms

The flooring turns into each doorway with no gaps or edges of flooring showing anywhere
bc all the door jambs are undercut so they sit on top of the flooring.  A lot of times you'll see a nice floor but the doorways look like someone traced the floor around the door jambs bc you can see a gap where the jamb and floor just butt together. Very unsightly and this is also an area that down the road will suffer damage when the floor expands in the winter buckling bc there is no gap around the edge for seasonal wood movement.

Hall closet
this is where you look if you want to know how good your floor guys are...
 no gaps or traced door jambs

Third bedroom off hallway
Room transitions are required on floating floors for seasonal movement.
These transition pieces were made from leftover flooring too match perfectly

Third bedroom

Master bedroom (done)

Master bedroom (opposite view)

Looking out the M. bedroom at the Hallway that turns and becomes the laundry area and leads the the second bedroom

Second bedroom

inside second bedroom

Webster St Redwood Deck Project Oakland June 2017

New Deck is 99% done.
I'm just mocking up the handrails before the final inspection from City of Oakland. 

before...

extra wide stairs

No screw holes or seams

My 3D rendering made from home owners drawings

another convenient side staircase 

City of Oakland code compliant 42" tall railings w/ all gaps <4" diameter

old deck

New side-stair landings poured

Full Kitchen Remodel 2016 - San Pablo CA

kitchen after!

kitchen before...

kitchen before 02

kitchen after 02

Pocket door delete

Goodbye pocket door

old cabinets removed

Rewiring kitchen to meet todays building code requirements

old cabinets removed

crawl space access found under fridge next to pocket door 

original home of gas range (left side of window) before being relocated

Pocket door deleted and gas range relocated. New counter tops finished with undermount sink

New cabinets and counter top

Pocket door is gone and gas range occupies the new wall space

Recessed lighting installed

under cabinet lighting installed

fridge cabinet coming together

cabinet base trim and crown moulding complete

plumbing fixtures finished

Walls painted

Finished and functioning kitchen remodel completed