Mark Pottle’s jeans are hooked, ripped, stained and covered in a layer of dust, turning them a light grey. His woods jacket doesn’t fare much better as he slips it on over his plaid shirt to head out to the workshop behind the house. It’s housed in one of three remaining sheds from five that […]
It’s a weekday evening and Sean Gorman is in the garage-turned-workshop of his St. John’s home, door open, truck parked in the driveway, a newly completed piece of furniture on a workbench. The shop is well laid out and cozy, built for the needs of a single craftsman plying his trade. And this is his […]
We profiled St. John’s based furniture maker and woodworker John Lundrigan for the summer, 2018 print issue of Home & Cabin. In this short video, John introduces himself and explains the sort of work he enjoys doing. As a furniture maker, John’s main interest is in making custom, live edge furniture from locally sourced woods […]
Melanie Hamilton’s living room is unlike any other. Not because of the room itself, but because of the furniture, much of it made by Melanie in her Wooden Leg Studio shop. She has had her works exhibited at several galleries and showrooms, and trained at both the Centre of Furniture Craftsmanship and Sheridan College’s furniture […]
Wayne Daley opens the front door of his home, travel mug in hand, and walks down the front stairs with a few words of acknowledgement as he heads around the corner to the backyard, down the paved path to a detached shed about the size of a single car garage. It’s a tidy looking thing, […]
Woodworker Jerome Canning spends his summers making boats, each winter returning to his shop to work on the various furniture ideas floating through his head. But boats are never too far from his thoughts. It’s in his blood, really. “My father was a mariner and a carpenter, a typical Newfoundland man,” he says. When his […]
There’s a long tradition of furniture making in Newfoundland and Labrador. These days, craftspeople are continuing that tradition in their own way, working in workshops, sheds and garages to create furniture in a wide variety of styles. In the winter, 2017 issue of Home & Cabin, we feature the work of Newfoundland and Labrador based […]
We’ve all been privy in recent years to severe weather systems that seem to be packing a bigger punch. Power outages are a little more frequent and tend to be lasting longer. We hear news reports of utility companies caught off guard or struggling to keep antiquated equipment at generating facilities up and running. These […]
There’s a small piece of wood tacked to the rafter of Louis House’s basement workshop with a handwritten phrase – “You don’t make a living making bad furniture.” It serves as a reminder that good work is what puts food on the table. And this workshop is how Louis gets fed. He’s a professional woodworker, […]
Jim Mallay leans in, getting a closer look at an under-construction garden seat on the workbench in the shop beside his house. This is the first time he’s built this version, and already he sees some changes that will be made for the second one. The piece is a two-seater, with an attached table between […]
