Serpentine Staircase

A serpentine Walnut staircase is finished off on site.  This stair features two diminishing curves, in opposite directions.  Each curve is a segment of an ellipse in plan.

Curved staircases are complex,  therefore built in the shop, under controlled conditions.   When complete, we dismantle the staircase for transport & installation.

This Paneled Wall section will match the historic panels from 1914. Some of the curves are compound curves - curving in plan and elevation

Serpentine Staircase in the shop, prior to application of curved wall panels

Serpentine Staircase in process

Cherry Audio Visual Cabinetry

This Cherry wall unit is made of sequenced matched Cherry veneers, with Quilted Maple horizontal bands. The grain of the wood flows vertically and matches horizontally across the width. The technical design called for integrating television and whole house audio into the unit, with electronics, media and miscellaneous storage. The aesthetic design sought to unify all the functions in an attractive contemporary look with a natural Cherry finish. Acorn worked closely with the electronics vendor to insure fit, access, heat management and user friendliness were all maintained to the customer’s high level of expectations. A close look shows that this cabinetry is shallow on the left – several inches deep only – while increasing to about 24″ deep the right side. This solution avoided disrupting the flow of the room and made the large unit much less intrusive in a family’s casual living space.

Mahogany Garage Doors

These Garage Doors duplicate the look of the original Carriage House doors in this update of an Early 20th century Tudor Estate.  The original hinged doors would swing to the outside of the building, a problem with frequent snows in the area.  We designed and built these doors to work as conventional overhead doors, with continuous grain vertically, interlocked joinery at the horizontal panel joints, and careful installation.

Curly Maple Cabinetry