Gallery – Outdoor Projects

W. Cambridge: 5’x10′ Timber-framed bike shed with concealed sliding doors, barn windows, western red cedar siding, bead-board ceiling, bluestone threshold.
Side view of bike shed.
Shed interior detail.
Cambridge – 3 story porch with extended pergola, spiral staircase, skylights, and Hemlock Fir scrolled roof rafters.

Huron Village, Cambridge – Arts & Crafts 2nd story bridge on Italianate home.
Huron Village, Lakeview Ave – Bridge detail.
Avon Hill, Cambridge – Arts and Crafts climbing trellis and arbor, cedar post and beam.
W. Medford Fells – Post and Beam Douglas Fir and Mahogany screened-in porch.
W. Cambridge – Hemlock Post & Beam Pergola, extended porch, privacy wall, hot tub.
W. Cambridge – Red Cedar Hot Tub, extended Mahogany porch, privacy knee-wall, renovated second floor porch room.
W.Cambridge – Interior second floor porch room renovation.
Osterville, Cape Cod – Outdoor shower, post and beam aromatic Eastern Red Cedar scrolled timbers.
W. Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard – Outdoor shower, Black Locust scrolled rafters.
N. Cambridge – Arts & Crafts bike shed, sliding custom doors, Black Locust timbers, scrolled rafter tails and beam.
N. Cambridge – integrated stair treads and planter box, African Mahogany (Sapele’).
Avon Hill, Cambridge – Victorian portico, hand-scrolled Mahogany corbels.
Avon Hill, Cambridge – Garden-roof bike shed, 4’x10′, I milled the corbels under the soffit to match the house detail. Barn sash window, custom-built sliding doors with tongue & groove fir panels, cedar clapboard,
Harvard Square: 4’x8′ Timber-framed bike shed , western red cedar sliding doors, Douglas Fir scrolled beams and rafters.
Beam and rafter detail
W. Cambridge: Mahogany barrel-roof bin container (hinged lid) and 4’x7′ bike shed: sliding bi-pass barn doors, Douglas Fir scrolled beams and rafters
Huron Village, Cambridge – Vegetated roof twin bike sheds and bluestone patio.
Harvard Square: 3’x6′ bin container. Boat dampers mounted on inside assist with lifting the Mahogany barrel lid.
Huron Village: 8’x10′ garden studio – Full-view insulated doors, triple barn windows, cedar clapboard siding, scrolled fir beams and rafters.
Huron Village: Back of 4’x8′ bike shed with mahogany siding. Gate and fence with scrolled rafter tail and iron bracket hardware.
Open front bike shed with locking cable and bike hangers.
N. Cambridge: Deck, privacy trellis, built-in bench, bluestone patio
N. Cambridge: 3’x7′ Bin container, 4’x8′ bike shed, bluestone threshold and walkway
Trellis detail.
My son Ty, 16, helping out on a weekend.

Belmont: Garden gazebo with antique metal domed roof, cedar posts, carved bluestone bench, and bluestone floor.

Detail of carved bluestone bench and shaped cedar back rests.
Gazebo profile.
N. Cambridge: 4’x12′ arts&crafts timber framed bike shed, cedar posts, beams, and braces, scrolled fir rafters, gravel floor.
Harvard Sq Cambridge – 2-story porch with weatherproof pet house underneath
Arlington – Treehouse, mature bittersweet vine structural bracing
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Inside the treehouse.
N. Cambridge: Japanese-style climber trellis with wrought iron detail.
Belmont – Attached bike shed 4’x10′, scrolled fir beams & rafters, cedar shingle, western red cedar sliding doors.
Belmont – Porch rebuild, Sapele rails and post caps, Mahogany balusters.
Harvard Square – Cambridge: Ceiling mounted sliding shed doors.
Harvard Square: Turkeys trying out the new shed roof.
W. Medford – Bin Container, scrolled fir beams and rafters, slat panels, shingled roof.
Tufts University area; 9’x21′ 2-story deck.
2- story deck detail.
Huron Village: 2-story deck, 9’x20′
North Cambridge – 2-story porch, Mahogany rails, stainless-steel rod balusters, attached raised garden bed, ceiling fans, recessed lights, new exterior doors, Western Red Cedar lattice skirt, Fir beadboard ceilings, Cedar shingle siding.
N. Cambridge: 2-story porch rebuild with wind wall and custom sash window.
Huron Village: Ipe’ deck with cascading stairs and built-in bench (Western Red Cedar, Ipe’, and Douglas Fir). Blue stone patio.
N. Cambridge – Window replaced by double French doors onto Ipe’ roof deck.
W. Medford: Pergola, cedar posts & beams, Mahogany scrolled rafters, Ipe’ porch landing.,
Osterville, Cape Cod – Pergola, scrolled Mahogany beams and rafters, bluestone patio (Reverse-curve roof gateway built by my brother, Paul Richard).

Hardscape examples:

N. Cambridge – Flanking stone walls, bluestone patio, privacy trellis.
N. Cambridge: Dry-stack stone grill base with arched storage, mahogany door with burl handle
W. Cambridge – Herringbone brick and bluestone patio.
Bluestone walkway and patio. Rebuilt porch.
W. Cambridge: Bluestone patio and rebuilt porch
River stone patio & wall
Stone grill base, mahogany door
Mahogany gate with antique iron grill, burl handle
Trellises w antique iron
Arched entryway canopy
Entryway canopy detail
Entryway rafters: gang cutting the notches 
Mahogany outdoor shower, antique stained glass windows, antique iron hinges