Bowen Street - Kew
2023 - Leading Hand Carpenter
This is a project I am currently site managing since the start of the year. These are initial renders of the finished pool house, pool and outdoor dining area. Renders by Neil Architecture
Bowen Street - Kew
2023 - Leading Hand Carpenter
Initial renders of the finished pool house and pool. Renders by Neil Architecture
Bowen Street - Kew
2023 - Leading Hand Carpenter
I colour coded and drew grid lines on the floor plan based off my site set out to reduce the likelihood of mistakes and confusion as the slab had an irregular shape and six different RL’s. This allowed our formworkers to focus on doing what they do best, as I had set up profiles around the perimeter of the entire site with the grid points clearly marked out so they could just string from point to point.
Bowen Street - Kew
2023 - Leading Hand Carpenter
Concrete slab with structural steel set out marked out on slab. The slab is 155m2 / 16.7 squares.
Bowen Street - Kew
2023 - Leading Hand Carpenter
Structural steel columns being installed on site. I ensured there were rebates in sections of the slab where the base plates of the column would interfere with the tiles. All columns were marked out on the slab to ensure the steel contractors had an easy install, and multiple datum points were flicked out on the slab to check for square.
Bowen Street - Kew
2023 - Leading Hand Carpenter
Steel Beam Install
Bowen Street - Kew
2023 - Leading Hand Carpenter
Steel Beam Install
Avenue Road - Camberwell
2020 - First Year Apprentice
This job was the first architecturally designed home I built, six months into my apprenticeship. This house featured a solid Blackbutt timber screen in front of the master bedroom, which was not only a unique design feature, but also functioned to limit the clients line of sight into the neighbours property.
Avenue Road - Camberwell
2020 - First Year Apprentice
This build incorporated a a lot of different materials, textures, angles, shapes and colours to create a vibrant and lively space. The amount of planning and working back from finished surfaces really sparked my interest and this job was what inspired me to pursue high end, architecturally designed homes as my niche.
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Master bedroom cedar feature ceiling. Everything on the ceiling was made and installed by a team of two (myself and a qualified carpenter). Over 400 individually cut and stained cedar veneer panels and solid cedar battens made up the ceiling of four rooms, which took over 2.5 months to make and install. Ceilings were 3.5m high which added to the complexity of the install
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Study room cedar feature ceiling.
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Study room cedar feature ceiling. Close up of the centre of the room.
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Study room cedar feature ceiling. Close up of the junction at the centre of the room. This junction was made using a long continuous strips with two strips with square ends butting into it to create a (+). Four shorter strips with an arrow point made butt into the (+) to create the (x).
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Lounge room cedar feature ceiling. Close up of grain direction. The architects specified the grain direction of the outer panels to be 22.5 degrees, which had to be taken into account when making the panels, as some were as wide as 2.8m which required the grain matching and joining of three cedar veneer sheets. We did not have the luxury of making errors as it took over 3-4 days to grain match, glue and join, stain and cut the large outer panels.
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Master bedroom walk in robe feature ceiling. This was a very challenging and time consuming install as the walls and joinery were already installed, so all the large border panels had to be grain matched and scribed to the walls, and since the panels were stained and finished, the use of fillers for unsightly gaps was not an option.
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Lounge room feature fireplace to compliment the feature ceiling.
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Master bedroom bedhead to compliment the feature ceiling. This was completely made, stained and finished in the workshop, with French cleats mounted to the rear of the bedhead. Site set out and install only took 2 hours.
Shakespeare Grove - Hawthorn
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
We also had to make the skirting boards for this project, which were 280mm tall solid 30mm thick American Oak pieces which required dovetail joins for rooms longer than 5m. I designed and made a router jig that could perfectly create the two opposing pieces in five minutes, where as the previous hand cut technique would have taken over 40 minutes, and would have the risk of human error undercutting/over cutting the dovetails, creating gaps. The pictured sample shows a test piece that hasn’t been sanded. Dovetail joins are a woodworkers signature joint, and it’s the gold standard of skill for connecting two pieces of timber.
AGB/Formani Door Hardware Display - Circa (Showroom by Bowens)
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
Up close of a display panel showcasing a range of AGB and Formani architectural door hardware. These were all installed on custom made display panels with a laminate finish which meant there was no margin for error, especially for the visible rounded face plates of the AGB Polaris mortice locks.
AGB/Formani Door Hardware Display - Circa (Showroom by Bowens)
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
AGB and Formani architectural door hardware display panel. Each panel showcased a different handle. In this case, the top handles featured instructions only in Dutch, and required me to use a smartphone to Google scan and translate the pictorial instructions to execute a perfect and precise install.
AGB/Formani Door Hardware Display - Circa (Showroom by Bowens)
2022 - Third Year Apprentice
AGB and Formani architectural door hardware display panel.