Author: Nicole Karr

Painted glazed cabinets



After three days in the finishing studio and seven weeks of building, assembling and sanding, I can finally say that the 5 coat finish is done. Two coats Magnamax tinted woodwitch primer, a brown glaze hand applied and finally two coats of Duravar catalytic dull sheen clear coat. All products used were from M.L. Campbell supplied by Russell Plywood. It is a labor intensive finish especially when you do an entire kitchen at once. The cabinets were masked to preserve the finished maple plywood interiors. Everything looks great and install should go very well next week. All that is left now is to install all of the hardware pack it up and head to northern New Jersey.

Just a Glimspe

…of this lovely new home in Plains, PA. The kitchen is Maple stained Cherry, with a large island and a Hoosier-style baking center. The house features walnut bathroom cabinets and a walnut bedroom set made by the Springhouse Woodshop as well as other built-ins. More photos to come!

Schoolhouse Woodshop






This is the inside on our 1840 one-room schoolhouse. We purchased the schoolhouse in 2004 after it sat empty for years and had previously been used for a gallery and an antique shop. The building is essentially original except for the new door I built for the front and the new wiring that we installed. This summer I plan to build a large porch for the front of it. In the winter time I heat it with a wood stove and in the summer it stays cool under the shade of some birch and cherry trees. It is quite an awesome place to work where I can turn the machines on, crank up whichever internet audio stream I have running and rip, plane, joint, shape, bore, drill, sand and crosscut to my hearts content. I still use the chalkboards for most projects which gives plenty of room to draw out projects and make cut lists that I can read from anywhere in the shop. These pictures are as clean as it has ever been (since I took over.) Dust is controlled by a 10 foot tall vacuum in the one cloakrooms which fills up 55 gal drum liners. I have recently found endless uses for the sawdust and shaving made by milling.

Cherry Kitchen with Maple Counters

This is a natural cherry kitchen where we also installed hard maple counters. This was a kitchen that the Springhouse Woodshop designed to fit around the unusual shaped room. The large upper cabinets on the stove wall are actually full depth (24″) to utilize the depth on either side of the stone fireplace which is in the living room on the other side of the wall. Lots of prep area in this kitchen as well as a bar counter for seating or a serving buffet.