A Covid-19 Update by Sam Clark

Dear Friends, 

Like everyone, we are spending a lot of our time dealing with the Coronavirus, learning the new rules and precautions, and thinking ahead to a time when things are better. We have been able to continue working on a much reduced scale, and new rules allow us to do projects “with precautions.”  We’ve had several friends who have had the virus, but we are fine, though struggling with the lock down. 

But we are still here, thinking about and planning for future projects. I want to mention that we are now an LLC, and using the email sam@samclarkdesign.com. Also, our phone number now is 802 522 7715.

Sam 

Sam Clark Design, LLC - A Reboot

Sam Clark Design is rebooting a bit. We still will be designing and building kitchens, as we have been for quite a while. And we are continuing to let people know that we like to work on small kitchen – and think a small kitchen can be just a functional as a big one, maybe even more so, if well designed. But we’ve been enjoying furniture projects in the last couple of years and would like to do more. Over the years we’ve built a lot of beds, tables, sideboards, hutches, coffee tables and other items. 

Some recent furniture projects: 

 

 

 

We also want to emphasize what we call “inserts”. Not every kitchen has to be torn out and redone from the ground up. Often a kitchen has a decent layout and some OK cabinets. Often we can make some small, relatively affordable changes that make a big difference. For example, we can take a base cabinet with doors, remove the doors, and build a set of very purposive drawers which just slide into the existing cabinet (that’s the insert, or casette). We can also add shelves, dividers, or islands. The island shown in the photo at the top of this blog was formerly in an upstairs kitchen here. We moved it downstairs, added a new top (by Steve) and trimmed it out to match the kitchen.

Inserts: This was a neat '70s kitchen with wonderful soapstone counters. 

We built three sets of drawers to slide into the old door cabinets.

And finally, we are now Sam Clark Design, llc. In a few weeks we’ll be re-launching our website, and routing our blog through the website. My new email is sam@samclarkdesign.com, and my cellphone, 802 522 7715 is now the preferred phone number to use. 

Sam