The journal
Working notes from the benches
Three pieces, each written for the hour before you order rather than the week after it arrives. One is about weather, one about a tape measure, and one about the ten minutes at the end that decide whether a piece stays where you put it.
The First Season: What a Year Outdoors Actually Does to Patio Furniture
Sun, standing water, wind and freeze attack different parts on different timetables. What each does, and the four habits that decide how a set looks in its third summer.
Measure Before You Fall in Love: The Four Numbers That Decide a Piece
A case three inches too tall is not a slightly wrong case, it is a case in the hallway. The four measurements that settle it indoors, the two outdoors, and how to take them.
Anchored, Shaded and Standing: The Steps Nobody Photographs
A bracket into a stud indoors, a ground anchor outdoors, ten feet around a fire pit. Three unglamorous steps that decide whether furniture is safe, and how to do each one.
Everything here is written around the Shintenchi team and the two sides of the door it furnishes.