'There Will Be Others, But None Like You': Cypress Woodworks builds a bench for the Waterbury community garden

In collaboration with Teri Maher Interiors, Alex and the team at Cypress Woodworks volunteered to help build a Memorial Bench in honor of former Harwood Union High School student, Eli Brookens, who passed away along with 5 other students in a car accident on I-89 in Williston. The custom wood bench, which can be found in the garden behind the Waterbury town library, overlooking Dac Rowe Field, is inscribed with a poem written by Eli titled, "Alive."

A special thank you from Cypress to everyone involved, including Teri Maher Interiors who helped with design, Antique Beams Boards who supplied the wood, Smyth Metal Works for fabrication of the steel components, Deb Kehoe and Mike Cortigiano for the typography and laser etching of the poem, and Chad Wheeler for applying a beautiful top coat finish to the reclaimed wood.


Cypress Woodworks team visits the Windy City for a specialized artisan concrete workshop.

Earlier in April, Cypress Woodworks owner/founder, Alex McKenzie, and craftsman, Twigg, attended a 3-day workshop in Chicago for intensive training on new artisan concrete methods. Two of the days were focused on exterior and interior concrete cladding fabrication and installation, with the third day being a private training session to learn a bag of tricks for various other parts of our artisan concrete division at Cypress Woodworks. Thank you to Fishstone for putting on the course - we had a great time!

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Fine Homebuilding magazine features a Cypress Woodworks custom-built cabinet.

The publication showcased a recent kitchen project by Cypress Woodworks in its Through The Lens feature about reclaimed hardwood used for furniture and accents. The stand-alone hutch cabinet was constructed with reclaimed wood from a barn in Ohio dating back to the early 1800s. To bring out the warmth of the salvaged wood, we chose a styling color palette of red, orange, yellow, and green.

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Artisan concrete sink with shark teeth featured by Fine Homebuilding magazine

In another feature article, Cypress Woodworks's design and installation of a custom concrete vanity sink was spotlighted by Fine Homebuilding magazine. For this one, Alex McKenzie glued each shark tooth onto a sacrificial layer of plastic within a templated plywood form, with the finished side down. He arranged the teeth in a free-form circular pattern around the sink to resemble sharks circling their prey, and for the left-side backsplash, he also added a shark-fin silhouette rising up from the vanity top. This project is a great example of the types of custom, artisan concrete designs that Cypress Woodworks specializes in.

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