Cameron Van Dyke

Modern Home Site

Cameron — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:03:31 +0000

We have begun building the kitchen cabinets for a modern home along Lake Michigan. Here are a couple images of progress on the house.

Ice Jam public seating – Mount Union

Cameron — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:45:33 +0000

This interactive public furniture designed by Cameron Van Dyke has been at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH for the past two years. It has recently returned to the studio and has been sandblasted and powder coated in white. It is available for purchase.

Walnut Bath Vanity in progress

Cameron — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:29:57 +0000

This modern walnut vanity is being made for a customer in the Chicago area with a retro mid century modern home. Walnut plywood is used with solid walnut edgebanding and integral top pull.

Modern Home on Lake Michigan

Cameron — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:38:31 +0000

So far this year we have spent a large portion of time working on a new modern home being built along Lake Michigan near Manistee, MI. The customer is from the Minneapolis area and most of communication so far has been through email/phone. We are providing design services and fabrication for many of the interior elements including the main kitchen, a secondary mini kitchen, the modern steel stair system, the bathroom cabinets, and various built in cabinets. We will make regular posts as we progress through the project. Below are the drawings of the kitchen. European style cabinets with flat slab doors and bar pulls. Blum hardware throughout. Tilt out upper cabinets. Countertops of wood and stone. Progress photos to follow.

Modern Custom Coffee Table

Cameron — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:07:16 +0000

One of our customers came to us with this photograph of a coffee table he would like to have reproduced along with a side table of our own design to match. We used CAD along with a CNC router to cut the parts out of Maple plywood. Those parts were glued together and then edgebanded with solid maple. Red and Blue dye was used on some of the pieces, then all were clear coated, and shipped to our customer. 3/4″ glass was provided by the customer by a fabricator at his location.

X Leg Dining Table

Cameron — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:45:59 +0000

Recently a customer came to us with a photograph of an existing design that he wanted reproduced in a different color. In order to create the piece, we fabricated a 2″ steel internal structure and six maple square sleeves that would slip over the structure. The finished piece was whitewashed and lacquered before final shipping. Table top glass was provided by the customer from a glass fabricator in his area.

Mission Fireplace Surround

Cameron — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:35:02 +0000

A recent project in a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home. The original fireplace surround had been removed and replaced with a white neoclassical look – very out of place in the FLW home. This is the same home that we did an extensive kitchen renovation in 2004. The black crackle gold tile was still in great shape. We used the other cabinets that were still original in the room as well as the faint outline on the wall and floor to re design the original surround. The new surround was recreated in Quarter Sawn White Oak and then fumed with ammonia gas to darken it to the original look, varnished, and installed.

Modern Dining Table

Cameron — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:08:14 +0000

This modern Dining Table was commissioned for a couple in Chicago with a modern contemporary home. The top is Peruvian Walnut and the legs are brushed steel. 96″ x 42″

Modern Dining Table ready to ship

Cameron — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:54:24 +0000

We are just wrapping up this modern dining table with a top of Peruvian Walnut and a base of brushed steel for a customer in Chicago. 42 x 96

Modern Fireplace surround

Cameron — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:51:18 +0000

This asymmetrical fireplace surround and mantle were installed in a new home in Celedon New Town. The concrete surround was cast from old barn wood siding, the ash used for the mantle and seating area was harvested from the property, and hot rolled steel finishes off the combination rough/industrial look.