So the boss had me building flats for awhile, which are very common in theatre, but not very interesting to take pictures of. They're basically walls for the set. We had a whole lot of them to build so that the paints department had something to do. But now I'm working with Marco on building doors and windows for the show 39 Steps.
So, the country door and window units were supposed to have the look of hand hewn wood, which for parts such as this shutter, I used a draw knife to rough up our 1x deselect pine boards. Distressing scenery is pretty common and we got a couple different ways of doing it. Usually designers will drop a adjective to help us pick which method to use.
Marco built the frame for this door while I was still finishing up the flats, but I came in and did the door real quick. Nice thing about the distressed pieces is that you don't have to get too meticulous with construction, just make sure it's square so it swings right and then beat it up till it looks used.
