Artefacts

Custom made Tables

For years, we've sourced fragments of wrought and cast iron - window guards, fencing, roof cresting - too small or damaged to be reused as such. Iron has an exceptional life span when taken care of and it is a delight to give these pieces a second chance.

Wood, salvaged from demolished buildings offers a tighter, more stable grain, comes in larger dimensions and bears a finished quality that can be impossible to find in new wood. Combine these elements and you have a product that is hard to beat!

The tables below are samples of our work - using new and salvaged material. Due to the nature of the salvaged material, many of these pieces are unique and can not be repeated. If these pieces have sold, consider them as examples of what you could create with other found pieces.

We came up with this at the request of a letter writer. French inspired, we culled 150 year old pine for all the parts and reshaped them to form this attractive piece. Three antique, porcelain knobs finished it off.

Blue Legged Coffee Table

The colour was based on an old shutter we found, the pine top left soft and warm.

Splayed Leg Table

Scott loved the wood and wanted something to show it off so, he designed this iron base for it.

Angle Iron Leg Table

Based on an original pair of legs we once had, these tables have the great luxury of variability of size in a stoic, subtle style. Antique hemlock boards are cut to suit.

Chinese Screen Table

We took two window screens from a Chinese restaurant in New York City and made this lovely little coffee table - show here without the glass.

Vaulted Arch Table

Simple and strong, this table is made from laminate fir beams sliced into planks and features extended ends to extra seating. And such a lovely home it found!

Ten Foot Pine

This was big but fantastic with the rustic barn floor top!

Mill Wheel Console

We did this for fun but now it's serious - everybody wants one.

Writing Desk

Shipped to New Brunswick to assist our client's post-grad work.

Dining Table

Simple yet elegant. The heavy, iron base was made by "Two Smiths" (see links page) and the top we made from 1860s ash flooring from Ilderton, ON..

This one was a custom order but something like it would run around $1950

Coffee Table

We recently completed this oversize coffee table for a chalet in the Collingwood area. Put together from salvaged pine barn board for the top and barn braces turned for legs, this table could host a party all on its own!

Heavy Pine Table

Worn, thick pine from a local barn tops legs turned from braces in the same barn to give this table a rustic quality the client wanted for their cottage setting

Beech Top Table

We selected 3 cracked boards to form this top. Where the cracks were too severe, we added tiger maple keys for stability.

Industrial Table

An assemblage of cast iron and wrought iron elements come together to support this laminated fir table top - the wood was cut from beams in a hockey rink near Stoney Creek, ON.

Sewing Table

Sewing table legs found in Philadelphia offer a kind of elegance to counter the primitive, hemlock top.

This "Cottage Table" was designed using heavy porch balusters, trim from the gable of a Victorian house and salvaged pine flooring for the top. Though it's hard to see, we inserted a panel of tin ceiling from a store in Elmira, ON.

A pair of charming little side tables we made from a set of 1920s porch spindles and some salvaged pine for the tops. These have proven quite popular as we sell them soon after they hit the showroom. Most are priced around $125 ea.

This is the base of a bar we did recently using an Egyptian iron panel as the face. The sides were designed to mimic the face features and a granite top finished it off. The bas was sandblasted and powder coated for it's life on the back porch entertainment area.

Cast iron adorns this wrought balcony grill table with a heavy distressed pine top.

45w x 14d x 34.5h - Sold

A dining table made from the salvaged joists from a Woodstock, ON church. This wood was lightly sanded from the original rough cut to preserve the coarse details and texture. A heavily varnish was then added.

72w x 30d x 32h $350 (top alone)

A cute end table fashioned from salvaged tin and 4 stair spindles over painted and distressed.

16w x 16d x 26h - Sold

This smart little bench was put together using pine joists salvaged from a 1880s church in Woodstock, ON. Milled from full 2" x 14" timbers, the wood has a warm quality. These benches can be made to order and are priced accordingly.

37w x 14d x 18h $285

This exotic wrought iron balcony grill from Egypt (c1890) has been reworked as a console table with a old pine top.

46w x 12.5d x 32h - Sold

Heavy forged and fitted iron from Milwaukee, c1850, once a window guard now centres this bold coffee table.

48w x 23d x 18h - Sold

Other Tables We've Done

Arched Egyptian Window Guard Table

Philadelphia Trolley Bridge Panel Table

Guelph Fence Table

Port Hope Light Box Table

Arts & Crafts Table

This piece began as a quarter cut oak radiator screen sold years ago to a client who only now decided what to do with it. She wanted a table but was still at a loss for design. We ran with the simple, severe look of the screen by emphasizing details with subtlety and grace.

Austere forged iron finished in black compliments the clean lines of the oak. We like it - what do you think?

Egyptian Eye Table

Here we have a revamping of an original Egyptian window panel as a coffee table. Only the top piece which will be covered in glass is antique. The lozenge design in the top was repeated in the stretcher below where a second plate of glass will accommodate magazines etc.

We wanted to keep the additions as unobtrusive as possible while at the same time avoiding the pitfall of adding a base that just looks like you added a base.

This massive table (5' x 10') was created to seat at least 12 for various parties and daily events. Pine from the joists of a church in Woodstock (see bench above) served for material and was hand stained and finished to match the chairs and floor.