Rustic door

This is a door I made and fitted recently for a client which as can be seen fits into the roof timbers of the house.

The customer requested an old and tempered look that would compliment the character of the room, hence it had to be made of 'reclaimed pine'.

To enhance the aged look I used handmade nails as fixings that I had salvaged from an old barn door. By chance the barn door had been burned so the nails were rusted looking and pretty rough.

They were also too long and protruded through the door so I bent them over and hammered them into the timber as they would have been used originally, this really helped to make the door look old.

I jointed the planks with biscuits in the first place but left as many impurities and splits and warps in the wood as possible.

I cut the profile on site after offering the door up and rough marking as best could be done by tracing a pencil mark along the beams.