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PAUL MARSHALL MANN
Writer. Photographer. Woodworker. Designer


I'm not a professional designer by a long shot, just someone who enjoys creating things. Some recent projects are the remodeling of our old home and my ever-present bikes. I love to get out in my workshop and build single speed and other kinds of bikes with old-school steel frames I pick up on eBay. I call these and other projects "Marshall Design." I also enjoy what I would call utilitarian design. By that I mean making the most of whatever it is you have. We have since moved and I've now got a new garage workshop that is even more spacious and practical, and I kept my custom-built oak workbench. Love my woodworking, but also learning how to weld so I can incorporate more of an industrial look in my designs. Click on the images for an enlarged view.
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Thanks, Paul


Workshop in my new house. It is my Zen Retreat. I can spend hours in here doing nothing but sanding.
Kitchen/Bathroom Remodel

1982 Schwinn World Sport Build

This is my workshop in our old house. Really loved it, and miss it.

Original frame

Original cranks, repainted, new chainring


Original frame

Love this build, it is the bike I use as my single-speed commuter. It has a flip-flop hub should I ever dare try fixed gear. Nice steel frame, great rattle can paint job. NOS Schwinn seat.


Final product.

Love this build, it is the bike I use as my single-speed commuter. It has a flip-flop hub should I ever dare try fixed gear. Nice steel frame, great rattle can paint job. NOS Schwinn seat.

Latest project, a table for our foyer. Quarter-sawn white oak top with a skirt of offset mahogany of varying shades, and 30" hairpin steel legs.



Latest project, a table for our foyer. Quarter-sawn white oak top with a skirt of offset mahogany of varying shades, and 30" hairpin steel legs.

Before photograph of our 1970's bathroom.

Another before photograph of the bathroom, and its lovely wallpaper

Detail of the sink area. The tile highlights (turtles, frogs, etc.) were designed and created by my cousin, Rocky Mann, a potter from Bar Harbor, Maine

Before photograph of our 1970's bathroom.

From 1960s, with added heinous flower stickers, faded wood, ugly knobs.

Stripped, stained, and finished, with new brushed nickel knobs, SS Hairpin legs, and green felt-lined upper drawer.

From 1960s, with added heinous flower stickers, faded wood, ugly knobs.

Quarter-sawn white oak, inlaid with routered out river bed filled with blue glow in the dark resin, atop an antique Singer sewing machine base.

Bring out the clamps

Completed desk

Quarter-sawn white oak, inlaid with routered out river bed filled with blue glow in the dark resin, atop an antique Singer sewing machine base.