by Portland Shoji | Jan 26, 2019 | Custom Shoji Screens
My long-time client and patron Steve G ask me to make him a Tansu. This came about during a discussion in his kitchen. I told him I always wanted to build a Tansu style kitchen for someone. A few weeks later, I heard from him. He is a really good artist. Super...
by Portland Shoji | Jan 26, 2019 | Asian Design, Custom Made Doors, Custom Shoji Screens, Fine Woodworking, Japanese Door, Screen Door, Shoji, Shoji Blog, Sliding Door
I had some folks from Southern Oregon contact me. They had a 4 panel, folding Shoji they brought back from Japan. This was interesting in it’s self as they don’t make a lot of folding screen in Japan. We had to coordinate the shoji delivery as they were...
by Portland Shoji | Jan 26, 2019 | Asian Design, Asian Style, Custom Made Doors, Custom Shoji Screens, Fine Woodworking, Japanese Door, Japanese sliding door, Japanese sliding shoji door, Screen Door, Shoji, Shoji Blog, Sliding Door
Some of my clients become patrons. In this case, Lauretta and her sister Diana hired me a couple years ago to build shoji for their newly remodeled basement and create a bedroom. I blocked off the end of one room with 2 large shoji made of my favorite wood:...
by Portland Shoji | Jan 26, 2019 | Custom Shoji Screens
This structure, that I call a kiosk was built in 1999. I built parts of it at my shop, then transported the parts to the contractor’s shop in Vancouver, WA where it was assembled and trucked to the site where it resides now. This was part of a job done by Lloyd...
by Portland Shoji | Jan 26, 2019 | Asian Design, Asian Style, Custom Made Doors, Custom Shoji Screens, Fine Woodworking, Japanese Door, Japanese sliding door, Japanese sliding shoji door, Screen Door, Shoji, Shoji Blog, Sliding Door
My client has hired me a few times in the last few yrs. Lately, I cut down his closet doors in a basement room and added my typical hardware setup to good results. In todays bit, I installed shoji in a hall/entry closet. The client wanted a “mill-core”...
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