Urban Pantry fit out

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cafe, salvaged floorboards, urban pantry

Earlier this month we did a bit of a fit out for  a little cafe in Ipswich Central off Brisbane street called Urban Pantry. We built a 4m suspended bench made from salvaged blue gum floor boards, finished in a durable high gloss and set up a cladded counter also made from salvaged floor boards. I visited Wendy there yesterday to see how things were going and give a final coat of oil to the counter. Urban pantry has now been open for three days and the locals are already all a buzz, they offer gluten free deli products and coffee ground from locally grown beans which Wendy roasts herself. Wendy’s daughter Lisa aka the apprentice, made me  my cap with once sugar and as a self confessed coffee wanker it was a pretty damn good cup.

New dressing room table for the !Metro Arts theatre

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bench, dressing room, recycled, silky oak, table, theatre

First of all! I’m not a photographer so excuse these photo’s, the lighting was near nothing and this bench is just over three metres long so it was hard to capture it. That being said, this was one of the more fun projects… It came about through my favourite process of creation, organic design. “We need a dressing room table. These are the materials we have.” Its not necessarily about how beautiful it is but, we need something to do the job, that we don’t need to replace for a long time (ever). To me this simplicity gives a project its beauty. So i went into the “cage” that Metro Arts has out the back and found three awesome bits of Silky Oak for the bench top, some random 2X4 framing pine left over from something or other, and some old Iron Bark floor support beams. The basis for an epic depression era style chunky table was born.

Cross-Stitch !Metro Arts festival bar… 2011

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bar, recycled

I built this bar late last year for Daniel Santangeli’s Cross-Stitch (You are everything i want you to be) at !Metro Arts. The bar was made completely out of left over sets from the 2011 !Metro Arts  theatre season.

This desk is made of recycled fascia boards for the top and support arms, laminated Tasmanian Oak support beam for the legs, retired fence bits for the feet, and a floor support truss for the brace. No screws or bolts were used in its construction. Finished in natural bee’s wax.