Banner Hill School
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We have been busy at Banner Hill re-vamping our three areas of business; the school, client based work and timber framing. On the school end of things you have told us where your interest is, ceramics and woodworking. And so we are refocusing in those core areas. We tested a number of shorter term programs in woodworking. We call them primer classes. There are six in all and we will probably add to them as time moves on. These classes are all 3 hours long and cover specifics in furniture building such as proper tool use, mortise and tenon, dovetails, etc. And we offer them to you with the most flexibility. Take one or take them all or sign up for any one in between.
We will still offer our popular Aspiring Woodwork week long course. If you take four of the six primers you will have a jump start on everyone else. And we will give you a tuition discount for taking this course. The same will apply to the woodworking program for women. We will continue to offer other classes as well such as the Shaker box, constructing a small cabinet, aspects in proper finish application and more. On the ceramic side of the house we will continue to offer work shops, open studio time and Raku firings. If you haven’t done Raku or don’t have a place to do it, you can do it at Banner Hill. It’s fun, it’s fast and the result are unpredictable making your piece unique from everyone else.
We will still offer special instruction for individuals or groups in both ceramics and woodworking.
Client Based Work
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At Banner Hill we also do client based work including custom made furniture, restoration and repair work. If you have an idea for a piece of furniture or cabinetry but not quite such how it will fit or look, we will design it and build it for you; kitchen furniture, dining room table, bed frame and cabinets of any description. Bring us you ideas!
Timber Framing
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Finally on the timber framing side I’m pleased to say we have restored 3 pre-1850 timber frames over the past year and re-stood them on building sites that will be created into homes. These structures are truly unique. They are of furniture quality in that the timbers were cut and hewed into shape by hand. As I say, the beauty is in the slight of hand. These frame simply can not be reproduce. We have teamed up with Durkin Construction and bring years of timber framing experience to each and every program whether it is a vintage frame or a newly cut timber frame. Our timber frames are adaptable to almost any use; a home, business use, studio space, guest house or smaller structures for garden areas and patios.
