A Beauhaven View
This is Beauhaven: New photos finally added -- more still to come!
The workshop for Beauhaven Custom Woodworking provides the solitude and solace of a deep wood environment. Nature's beauty, home and family are all inclusive at Beauhaven. In Summer, the deep green of mature forest encloses the shop, but in winter the town of Pittsboro can be seen on the far horizon about 4 miles away. Visit us at 821 Buteo Ridge, Pittsboro most weekdays between 10 am and 5 pm (and any other time you see "Open").
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| An Aug. 2006 look at the workshop front starring the master of the house, Sundance. The group below
shows, on the left (and still needing a door), the milled
lumber shed and over to the right the rough cut lumber shelter. Both have
rack space for air-drying and storing lumber.
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| Here you can see the 2007 extension for the finishing room on the right side. |
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From Spring 2004:
Left photo, the Beauhaven workshop is to the right with our home behind.
Right photo, the
workshop's deck (outdoor work area) is pictured.
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| Over time our activities have grown and so has the need
for space. Much of our time for the first years was occupied simply developing
reasonably comfortable and convenient working facilities. The small shop space can no
longer be used for the proper drying, care and storing of lumber, or
for bulk log storage. So new structures now provide the drying and
storage capacity. |
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 Milled Lumber Shed
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 Bulk Log Storage |
Rough and Bulk Lumber |
| Then a complete rethinking and rearrangement of workshop space changed a crowded facility into areas where hard work, creativity and the delicate process of finishing can be completed without constantly moving work and wood around or the risk of damaging a piece in its final stages. | ||
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| Shot from the double open front doors, this shows the entire original shop. With the doors open (front and back) there's almost no limit to the size lumber that can be managed. The front half is open space to which the large tools on mobile bases can be quickly moved as needed. | ...and then... Checkout that new addition! Lots of SW facing windows -- perfect for that raking late afternoon sun!
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Modifications to some
old doors yielded a new fullview door out to the deck and double folding
French doors to the finish room.
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| Finished walls and ceiling plus a couple of wall cabinets are needed in the new extension, but they will be done... | ||
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 ...and the new display cabinet. |
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The sanding station remains on the back deck with the deck rail doubling as my outdoor carving stand.
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| And the final look that shows how much of the inspiration and creativity of Beauhaven stems from our home nestled in and overlooking the central NC forest. | ||
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 Here the house, the woods and the far horizon can be seen... |
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Just to introduce the leading Beauhaven Custom Woodworking characters -- to the left is Rich sitting with Sundance also shown on the right frolicking in one of our rare central NC snows. |  |
See Carolina Country Builders http://www.greenhomedesignbuild.com for more about our home builder.
(Images by Beauhaven Custom Woodworking)