SAIN WORKS

Name: SAIN WORKS
Address: Lawrence, KS, 66044, US
Telephone: +17853930746

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I am a licensed architect, builder and an adjunct instructor at the University of Kansas. SAIN WORKS is my venue for exploring this kind of work.

I have found that what I most like about construction is working in the shop on unique custom assemblies.

08/29/2026

My latest custom concrete and steel birdbath was delivered to its new home today.

06/30/2025

The Brigid Murphy Carport was completed during the winter. Over the last couple of days I finally have taken some photos of it with everything in bloom in (and around) Brigid’s beautifully landscaped and planted yard.

06/15/2025

The latest Sain Works birdbath. It has already sold but I will make more in the future.

05/22/2025

I was in Wamego KS today. The kayak lockers for Friends of the Kaw are one year old and still looking good. Fingers crossed I will get to build some more of them someday soon.

03/03/2025

The Murphy Carport is assembled. Three good friends help me to put it up and get the roof on. All that is left is some minor paint touch ups, the final inspection (no worries about that) and Brigid's landscaping plans happening this spring. The water from the roof will fall into a bed of river rock so it can be absorbed into her very nicely planted backyard without causing erosion. There will also be rock around the base of the columns. I will take more photos then. Trees will be green, flowers out etc.
Brigid was a great client who told me what she wanted, was easy to talk to and share ideas with, and then trusted me to figure it out and make it work.

12/31/2024

The Murphy Carport foundation is in! Poured the concrete yesterday, just beating winter getting serious with us. The wood structure is low tech way to assure the footings are in square and at the right elevation.

12/07/2024

Perfect day to make some steel trusses in the shop. Cassidy signed off on the work

11/24/2024

New Sain Works Garden/Yard Furniture

While waiting for the building permit to build the carport I am working on I made a series of outdoor furniture. Two benches and two tables with an upper and lower top. They are made of smooth cedar 2x6’s and steel that has been galvanized. The galvanized steel will last outside for decades and the cedar for a very long time. The cedar boards can be replaced easily in the future if needed.

The benches are 18 ½ inches high 6 foot long and 14 inches wide. The square table is 34” tall and the tabletops are 15 x 18 inches. The table with the triangular leg is 32 ½” tall and the upper tabletop is 15 x 18 inches and lower one 13 x 15 inches.

Making custom furniture with high quality materials and finishes makes it hard to keep the cost down and still be worth the time. I try to create designs I can quickly fabricate to help stay in the Pottery Barn neighborhood. If you have any friends with a yard or garden that might like to have something like this pass the information along. I like making these types of things and am trying to work out a network for selling them. I think there will be interest if I can get the word out to the right people. I can’t expect my friends to buy all of them.
I will deliver to addresses within an hour or so of the shop in DeSoto Kansas.

The benches are $600 each
The end tables are $300 each
The entire set can be purchased for $1600

11/19/2024

Perfect day for shop work with south sun flooding in. The carport project is underway. Steel column parts are being cut to size.

11/09/2024

In May a friend and neighbor in Old West Lawrence ask me if would like to design and build a carport for her. That started months long process of getting the design through the historic review process and the building permit submittal. Finally we have a building permit. Steel is ordered and fabrication will begin soon.

Address

Lawrence, KS
66044

Telephone

+17853930746

Website

http://sainworks.com/

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