New Construction

Hansel Residence

Another Albuquerque Joinery build has just gotten underway, this time in the South Guadalupe Trail neighborhood of Albuquerque’s North Valley. Designed by Kenny DeLapp and Esther Fredrickson, this low and long pueblo style home will join the many existing adobe homes in the area. With long portals, an east-facing trellis for viney plants, and exterior doors on all sides of the building, every room will interact with the numerous gardens and outdoor spaces planned for the site’s future. The house is all electric, and will be heated and cooled with a radiant heat pump system. With a 2,445 sq ft footprint and just a handful of interior frame walls, the house will require some 7,200 adobe bricks.

We look forward to sharing our progress on this new and exciting build. Additionally, we are pleased to be collaborating with the organization Adobe is not Software to create a series of instructional videos documenting adobe wall construction from footers to bond beam. Visit adobeisnotsoftware.com for more information, and stay tuned!

Albuquerque, New Mexico

2024-2025

Currently under construction.

Finch Residence & Barn

Small, North Valley agricultural compound. This project consisted of two separate structures – a 1,750 sq ft house, and 800 sq ft barn – both adobe, of course. Construction took place over 2023 and 2024. With pitched roofs, exposed solid wood bond beams, rafter tails, and 3x window and door bucks, this build had an exceptional amount of exposed woodwork, inside and out. The majority of the wood used in this project was New Mexican grown Ponderosa pine, purchased as rough cut lumber, and carefully worked by our team. All the cabinetry, exterior doors, shelves, and built-ins were fabricated by Albuquerque Joinery, including the Siberian Elm kitchen countertop, and the dry pack concrete vanity tops. We used earthen plaster for the interior of both buildings, and a clay aliz for the Rumford fireplace.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

2023-2024

Buchan Residence

This modestly sized 1,850 sq ft home, on a quirky dead-end street in the North Valley, is a pueblo style adobe, with a wandering floor plan and many exterior corners. It was designed to be a natural addition to the neighborhood, paying homage to the many historic adobes in the Los Griegos neighborhood while not being overly imitative. The finished house includes brick floors, exposed ponderosa pine ceiling decking, radiant in-floor heat, and earthen plaster interior walls. All kitchen, pantry, and bathroom cabinetry was fabricated by Albuquerque Joinery.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

2021-2022

DeLapp-Fredrickson Residence

Adobe home, designed and built by Kenny DeLapp and Esther Fredrickson using traditional materials and modern construction techniques. Our 1,600 sq ft home has two bedrooms and one bath, with brick floors, exposed vigas and decking, adobe mud plaster interior walls, site-built solid wood doors, radiant heat, and two portals. Built under an owner-builder permit.

South Valley, New Mexico

2015-2016

Adobe Workshop

Albuquerque Joinery’s adobe woodworking shop, built in 2018-2019. Since this is a workshop – not a residential dwelling – we weren’t held to the same rigorous energy code, and had more flexibility on how we could finish the outside of the building. We left the adobe brick exposed, and used adobe mud plaster under the eaves and gable ends of the roof. The interior also features a traditional earthen plaster, as well as exposed site-built rough sawn trusses, bond beam with timber frame style joinery, carriage garage doors, and wide-plank wood flooring. We sought to make this building more than just a shop, but something akin to a studio, built out of the material we find so inspiring.

South Valley, New Mexico

2018-2019

Contact

abqjoinery@gmail.com | 505-944-5654
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