Stacey Norris, sales manager of Wainwright Tile & Stone gets a visit from interior designers Diana and Kelly of Fifth Wall Design Group. The designers are checking in on new tile samples for their upcoming projects. Wainwright has a beautiful selection of natural stone, ceramic and porcelain tile, and more. We absolutely love their glass tile and lava stone tile samples! These are great people to do business with…

Visit Wayne, Diane, Lois and Stacey and the rest of the staff at:
Wainwright Tile & Stone
608 Preston Ave # C
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 245-5216

The ladies spent some time this week on a space planning project for a local builder, a space planning and cabinetry design project for a client in Barboursville, Va and on lighting selections for a Charlottesville client. Photographs were taken of some previous work for us to post on the corporate website and a nursery mural lead arose from that. The designers collaborated on a brochure for their print campaign as well.

Handmade Fluted Pilasters by Brian Willford

These handmade fluted pilasters were created in our mill-shop on a router table for a classical archway dividing a private office library from a sitting room. These were milled up and installed by Brian who is currently on this project of ours. There are great advantages to milling your own flutes instead of purchasing fluted stock. The flutes on pre-milled stock run the full length of the sixteen foot long plank and do not have the lovely termination points (shown on image on right… click to enlarge).

A little more about how the flutes are made:
Flutes are on the bottom side of the table so the craftsman is plunging blindly into the stock with just a pencil mark to guide her/him. Spacing is calculated leaving the desired amount between the flutes and on the edges. There are normally five flutes per face but try to keep an odd count, five, seven… Then pencil marks are set at the end of the board to be able to set the router table fence. This is an Incra-Jig Fence so it has a micro adjuster. On a scrap board (or the back of a pilaster) you should run about two inches of each flute to get the correct spacing while marking the fence location on the table. Note we have a big white table to better see the jig, start and stop marks. The start and stop marks are needed as the router bit is below the board and the operator is completely blind to it’s location.