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Wood carver rebuilt house for his workshop
By Karen Back
Copley New Service
It’s all too rare in our high-tech
world to find quality craftsmen. Bill
Chappelow, whose handcrafted wood
en spoons and toys have sold in places
like the Smithsonian Institution’s gift
shop, is one of that vanishing breed.
Chappelow lives in the hills of
Southern California in a 19th century
stone house that putting it mildly
was a ’’fixer-upper.” Just returned
from a camping trip in the High Sier
ra, Chappelow sits in his carving
room and describes his adventure
with the house.
“When I got it the house was just
ready to fall down,” he recalls. “In
fact, I took almost the whole house
down wall by wall and put it back up
with the help of Mexican stonemasons
from deep in Mexico.”
His house, which has a “mission or
Southwest look,” is made of local
fieldstone. Originally, it was caked
with adobe. Chappelow put it back to
gether with cement and wire. He put
Spanish tile floors inside and Spanish
tile walkways outside, plus he re
placed all the beams of the windows
and doors with treated fir.
This former marine ecologist who
started his career as a woodcarver af
ter a tree fell down in front of his
house and he had to figure out what to
do with it, now works not in the ocean
but at home in his carving room. He
sits at a massive mahogany bench in
front of a big bank of windows that
look out at the oak, cedar and fruit
trees in his front yard and works on a
19th century treadle lathe run by a
leather belt and drum while listening
to classical music.
Hiring painters can be nightmare for homeowners
By Anna Quindlen
The New fork Times
The painters. Don’t the very words strike fear
into your heart? We’ve all seen it happen. A col
league comes into the office. His hair is standing on
end, his tie is awry and there is a pale swipe of
primer on the cuff of his pants. He collapses at his
desk. “How about a drink?” he says. “It’s 10
o’clock in the morning,” you reply, and suddenly
you know.
The painters. There’s the Stephen King mega
seller that would scare the overalls off me: “Drop
cloth.” Woo.
The painters are going into their fifth week at our
house, which is right on schedule, according to
painter time, because they said they would be done
in two. “There was a lot more work than we expect
ed,” said the lead man, his hair prematurely white
from plaster dust and homeowners.
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Bill Chappelow’s craft includes hand-carved utensils
The room has a fireplace and a
wood stove in which he bums oak. The
wood that he’s currently working with
ebony, domestic maple, kingwood,
tulipwood and olivewood is stacked
in the comer.
On his walls are four detailed por
traits, pencil sketches, of Indians and
a watercolor of for Holstein cows “in a
stormy scene where it’s just about to
rain.” He explains, “That’s right by
the door so I always see it when I go
out and it reminds me to put on my
coat.” Hanging above the lathe is an
old photograph of his great great
grandfather, who was a doctor.
His grandfather, who ran a nursery,
planted some of the trees Chappelow
now works with, including one large
oak tree that died seven years ago.
The other workroom is filled with a
bandsaw and a couple of drill presses
that he uses to cut logs apart or to free
Why don’t they just have that line printed on
their business cards? That and “We’ll just Sheet
rock it over?” I, for one, would not hire a painter
who did not say at least once that he would just
Sheetrock it over. How much experience could he
possibly have? Would he know to direct the entire
team to leave coffee containers and Fritos bags on
the floor to attract roaches? Would he know to
paint the windows shut except the window in the
master bath, which must be painted open during
the winter? Would he be the kind of guy who would
get spackling compound in the sugar bowl? Would
he charge enough enough so that when I see a
woman at the supermarket driving a Mercedes
convertible and wearing a fun fur, I know without a
doubt that it is his wife?
Painters may think I am picking on them. My
only reply is, it’s about time. Of course, I’m willing
to pick on the other guys, too. The plumbers, for
example. Perhaps we share the same one. He’s the
spoons.
“I carve all the spoons en situ, so to
speak, in hunks of wood,” he says,
“and then I cut them free and shape
them on sanders, which are outside.”
Inside the “adobelike” house, there
are “all kinds of interesting ledges
and outcroppings. ’ ’ And there is an al
cove that Chappelow is particularly
fond of where he often eats dinner or
entertains friends with wine and
cheese.
“It’s very small so it can only be two
or three friends,” says Chappelow,
who adds, “It has driftwood embed
ded in the stairs, big twisted pieces of
redwood.” He bandsawed Spanish tile
with old blades so it fit the cures to
complete the two-step entrance to the
alcove.
He is now in the process of building
a wine cellar that goes several feet
down into the ground. It has a massive
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wagen” that takes up half the space
“That’s my thermal sink,” he says,
“it maintains the temperature.”
The cellar is shaped in a half-circle
with an oak roof going through one
comer and back into one wall. Anoth
er massive rock hangs out from an
other wall that is swathed with mor
tar. The 16-inch ceiling beams will
eventually be carved with frogs,
leaves “and whatever comes to
mind.”
The stair tread is deep enough so
that wine bottles can be tucked under
neath. the exterior is fieldstone with a
little wall on top covered with fish
scale shingles, which, says Chappe
low, ’’doesn’t go with the Southwest
feeling of the area but I figured I could
take artistic license with the wine
cellar.”
He grinds coffee from Louisiana,
puttering in his kitchen, which has a
1920 stove “that looks like a wood
burning stove but is gas.” It has nick
el-plated gas pipes, gray and white
enamel doors and a warming oven on
top. Another painting of an Indian
looks out at a series of mismatched
windows.
“The first work I ever did on the
house was to fill the holes where the
rocks had fallen out, with different
shaped windows that have old, wavy
glass in them,” he says. His kitchen
sink is a copper lobster pot sitting in a
large chunk of double-dovetailed in
grained maple, a cutting table he
adapted into a counter top.
Chappelow says his house helps him
with his work by being “real quiet and
having so much ambience.”
guy who arrives and says, “There’s nothing wrong
with this furnace.” Except that it does not provide
what we in the rank and file refer to as heat. “I can
understand that that’s a problem for you,” he says,
“but there’s nothing wrong with this furnace.”
The roofers are pretty terrific, too. I once had a
roofer come down my fire escape and tell me he
believed with all his heart that my roof was termi
nal. Meanwhile, I had an entire house, occupied by
furniture, dependent on that roof. It makes you
wonder why your place has a door. Why not just a
huge yawning pit of a mouth, red, with teeth, that
every once in a while bellows, “Feed me money!”
Somehow, though, the painters are the worst.
Maybe it’s because you remember them long after
they are gone.
The painters arrive. They mix three cups of
white paint with a bathtub full of water. Then they
throw it at the wall. Anything that drips to the floor
counts as painting t! e molding.
353 DULUTH ST. (HWY. 120)
ALPHARETTA
475-5212