the love, life & work of Blake Johnson
I moved into a tiny room for a bit and needed to make great use of space, so I built this short, shallow, long desk with tons of drawers. I worked out some of my difficulty/baggage in getting drawers to work doing this. It was good. Even got some file bars in the lower ones. […]
This was a pretty interesting DDW project; it came out looking as simple and clean as the drawings and was mostly a pleasure to make :P. Every project has their challenges and this was no exception, but I think it honed my understanding of making and installing built-ins, at least smaller and simpler ones like […]
I spent about a year and a half working nearly full-time at Doriss Design Workshoppe, a cabinetry/furniture/millwork shop in South Boston. It was a great low-key work environment, with all kinds of different an interesting projects coming in and out, and I learned a bunch about cabinetmaking, furniture fabrication, and some welding and spray finishing […]
I’ve had the privilege to work with Mitch Ryerson for two summers now, and this was my first project with him in May-July of 2015. This was a huge undertaking, and it took quite a while to work all the pieces into the final thing; many days of beating sun and humidity, no shade on […]
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I’m rolling out some changes on this site. For a while now, I’ve wanted a bit of an update on the dark theme of my site. I really do like the older theme, it was very low-profile and showcasey, besides I’d made it myself from scratch, but it was starting […]