I moved about 20 miles last summer but as a last hurrah, I worked on this project, several years in the planning, at my prior church to convert a rarely used library room to a chapel / quiet room / upper room.

 

The old room was gutted.  There were three of us woodworkers doing most of the work with a church employee and another couple volunteers filling in on painting, wall papering and electrical work.   All was spec'd out by a church member who is a retired architect who did a lot of churches.

 

The three of us built the built-in cabinets in the alcove for storage of keyboard, and (probably) other junk.   One other guy and I hung all the chair rail, base rail and wainscot.  He made the altar table and I made the lectern.  I repaired, reupholstered, and touched up the kneeling rail (not shown).   The then the carpet was laid, wallpaper hung, and the ordered furniture and decor came in.   The youth director (a former art teacher) did a lot of the artwork.    Some delays as the architect spends the winter in FL and the youth director got overloaded with work when another employee was let go at the end of the year.

 

Anyway, I think it's done now and perhaps awaiting official christening.  

 

Keith, you and crew do some very nice work...

Very serene and calming. I really like the mirror.

Edited March 12, 20179 yr by lew

Yeah, the mirror was new to me.   Originally, that whole wall was supposed to be a mosaic of mirrored squares at different heights and depths.  I like the change really well.   This whole project was a series of scope creep over the two years of planning.

Looks quite nice, like the wainscot, is that veneered panels ? I thought the mirror was a window, until Lew mentioned a mirror and I looked closer..

Herb

8 minutes ago, Dadio said:

Looks quite nice, like the wainscot, is that veneered panels ? I thought the mirror was a window, until Lew mentioned a mirror and I looked closer..

Herb

The wainscot was a special material to match some in the downstairs part of the same building.  It comes in 4x8 sheets and is 1/8" gap then 3/8" MDF veneered strip over and over.   It's on Kraft paper so that the whole thing rolls or folds up into a 1' wide stack.   $200 a sheet <eyes pop> so we were careful when we cut it.  Got some special Franklin adhesive to put it onto the walls.

That is cool, never heard of that, it could be wrapped around radius walls and columns too.

Herb

Very nice work

Very nice with clean lines.  Its refreshing to know that your church also has their "go to" woodworkers.  Our church has about 5 or 6 of us that get the privilege of building for the Lord.

Nice job! Very rewarding.

Very well and appropriately done for the intended usage Keith. They're lucky to have your craftsmanship available to them.

1 hour ago, Ron Dudelston said:

Very nice with clean lines.  Its refreshing to know that your church also has their "go to" woodworkers.  Our church has about 5 or 6 of us that get the privilege of building for the Lord.

When we first joined that church 21 years ago, a few months after we joined, they did a big building expansion.   The pastor barely knew me, but tapped me to lead an effort to build bookcases and cabinets for the new offices and library.  We started out with about 8 guys and after a few weeks, it settled down to me and occasional volunteer.   Ended up with 35 7' tall units, about 1/3 of which had doors on the bottom half.   Still in use and about 1/3 of them were in the library that was the prior use of that room.

9 hours ago, kmealy said:

  Ended up with 35 7' tall units, about 1/3 of which had doors on the bottom half.   Still in use and about 1/3 of them were in the library that was the prior use of that room.

Now that's a project!

12 hours ago, Dadio said:

That is cool, never heard of that, it could be wrapped around radius walls and columns too.

Herb

My wife and I were in HD the other day and she found a display with similar product already sized to wrap around a basement pipe column.  I've used a similar product for wainscoting in the past when remodeling a Chinese restaurant - the backing was some type of rubbery plastic, and we put it up with contact cement rolled on both surfaces. We had stained and spray-lacquered the panels before installation, and capped it with a rail with a rabbet on the bottom back edge to hide the ends of the panels.

sweet

Excellent work...very rewarding, I'm sure...