Limewash, Lime Plaster, Venetian Plaster, Paint treatments, 3-D sculpted walls, etc. All treatments can be done in residential or commercial spaces!
A matte lime plaster to give a soft texture and a warm, cozy vibe.
A beautiful neutral look with a light texture. Catches the light beautifully, roman clay is one of many trowel on finishes to choose from.
This piece is also highlighted on our furniture page, but here is a close up of the 4 part paint/ stain treatment that we did to give it this specific rustic look. Perfect for Texas Hill Country!
Dark, vibrant accent wall in an office done in black roman clay.
Another example of dark faux painting used in an office setting.
Soft gentle tones come through in this wellness office space with a limewash finish.
An example of a textured metallic effect achievable with paint. This is a residential bathroom ceiling.
Bold heavy teature for a bedroom accent wall
Section of a film set designed and built by Sagenworks. This is a heavily textured 3 color paint scumble to give beautiful depth on camera.
This office has a bold, heavy texture to stand out on podcast recordings.
Same office, different lightng.
Tree mural in a kid’s playroom. An example of organic hand painted murals available.
Painted effect on old wrought iron to brighten these tables in an industrial style.
Various props from my 20 year stagecraft career, a few random pieces for inspiration, and past custom wedding gifts!
All items designed and fabricated by Becky Sagen unless credited otherwise.
Scrollsaw Fretwork clock. Customized by modifying an 'Alpine Clock' pattern. For Liz and Dallas DeForest.
1/4 birch ply, pendulum clock mechanism.
Made for funsies, out of Cherry.
Shelves and top panel built and stained to match the antique set of drawers below.
Full view of antique cabinet with custom shelving topper bulit and stained to match the existing piece. No modifications to the antique.
Rebuilt base so it would roll but support an actress and not move when climbed on without visible brakes. Welded base, birch facade and red oak veneer.
'Pelleas and Melisande', Opera Theater of St. Louis. Designer: Paul Steinberg
The table onstage; avec singer!
'Pelleas and Melisande', OTSL. Designer: Paul Steinberg
Center table is a purchased piece, Large and small replicas built for the eat me/ drink me scene in Alice in Wonderland where she grows and shrinks.
'Alice in Wonderland', OTSL. Designer: Allen Moyer
In progress photo :)
Bank of six arched cabinets, one is a hidden door into an office. Designed by client, and client learned woodworking throughout the execution of this project. All work done by Becky Sagen and the client!
Center cabinet in this bank is a 18” deep rotating door into a secret office. Engineering and build of door by Becky Sagen
Hidden door in action!
Leather wrapped 1/2 birch ply, masonite details, brass hardware.
Custom box for a ceremony involving a bottle of wine, 2 glasses, and letters written to your spouse, to be opened and enjoyed in 10years. The organic shape of this design was inspired by Dustin and Madeleine, two outdoorsy people who love the mountains.
Birch ply, white oak veneer, and Mahogany.
Inside of Dustin and Madeleine's. Slot for letters, wine glasses, and supports for wine bottle.
The back of Dustin and Madeleine's box, with a hidden spring magnet catch slot to hold extra stationary to write the next letters on.
One in a series of three, these cute guys were a fun excuse to do some steam bending.
Second in the series of three. Steam-bent oak
Refinished, then 1/4 ply scrollsaw fretwork panels added.
'Ragtime'- NYU. Designer: Jason Ardizonne-West
This design was inspired by a couple who love to read, and really feel that their life 'is an open book of possibility'.
1/4 birch ply, walnut and birch veneer
Inside, with the slots for letters, wine glasses and a bottle of wine.
Steel and aluminum set pieces, custom commissions, and a few bits of fun!
All pieces designed and fabricated by Becky Sagen unless otherwise noted.
Custom gate for an alley entrance in Baltimore, MD.
Designer: Steve Baker, Wholly Terra Studios. Layout and fabrication: Becky Sagen
Steel and stained glass.
view from inside alley.
Custom residential sign. House number sits over the porch light and illuminates number and glass at night.
Designer: Steve Baker. Layout and fabrication: Becky Sagen
Steel and stained glass
Residential sign illuminated at night with existing exterior light next to door.
Arch constructed from three purchased scroll pieces, and many many fabricated ones.
'Spring Awakening', NYU. Designer: Mia Cook
Close up of one of the legs.
'Spring Awakening', NYU. Designer: Mia Cook
For an interior design firm. Their logo is an 'I' with 1/2 a red circle. Red circle was completed and carried on to other circles dancing across the transom windows. Casts gorgeous circles of color on the floor as you walk in.
Wholly Terra Studios, Baltimore, MD. Designer: Steve Baker
Crow Hill CrossFit. Letters all cut and worked by hand. Crow was built up mostly out of off cut from the letters.
Steel
Close up of crow
Built for a music video
Because a keg fridge at a gym requires a particular style of tap handle..
Brushed steel, designed and fabricated by Becky Sagen
‘Into the Woods’ at CU Boulder. Designer: Jonathan Spencer. Technical Director : Becky Sagen
An interesting prop: 11’ banquet table had to be stood on by several opera singers, then collapse in the same scene with an actor operated mechanism. Production photos are the best photos of it, Opera Theater of St Louis 2011 season, photo credit to J. David Levy.
Welded aluminum stress-skin table, hinged aluminum legs with removable bracing. Mechanism and table design and fabricated by Becky Sagen. Set Designer: Bruno Schwengl
Antique wrought iron lamp cages reclaimed from a building in Queens, NY. Made into side tables and painted.
The two tables, minus the glass tops.
CrossFit Long Island City. Letters were all hand cut and welding 3-4" out from base for lighting to be installed.
Steel.
Projects that involved a wide variety of crafting/fabrication skills. Most of these were for theater work, but fun things can be made for your daily life!
All Projects designed and fabricated by Becky Sagen unless otherwise noted.
Organic design for custom piece.
Reclaimed window frame, reclaimed clear glass. Colored glass.
Wedding gift for Casey and Beth, a couple that loves tea. Dragonflies represent new beginnings.
Reclaimed window frame, reclaimed clear glass. Colored glass.
Designer's drawing for 2 plants. I love projects like these, where you get a quick sketch and free reign to create.
'Cossi Fan Tutti', Opera Theater of St. Louis. Designer: James Schuette
Completed Plants!
Foam, muslin, rubber, silk plant pieces, and LOTS of wire and paint.
'Cossi Fan Tutte', OTSL. Designer: James Schuette
The frame for the hands of a puppet for a 'giant' character.
Children's Show, NYU. Designer: Roy Howington
One of the completed hands. Metal rod, chicken wire, muslin.
The top head piece and left hand.
Children's show, NYU. Designer: Roy Howington
This was for an advanced prop making course I taught at CU Boulder Department of Theater and Dance. The project required students to carve an animal or animal part from pink foam, and then wire it to be a practical lamp. This was my example project I made one step ahead for students to learn from.
Design sketch and initial shaping. Pink foam, designed and built by Becky Sagen.
Progress point in the project- kraken tentacle has been carved, cut in half (not visible) and the channel for the wire has been set into the inside. Current materials are foam and clay
Finished lamp. The tentacle is gripping the light socket, and the mounting plate is designed to look like a porthole window on a boat. Example for an advanced prop making class I taught at The University of Colorado, Boulder. Carved foam, clay Rosco FoamCoat, latex paint. Final dimensions 20” tall x 8” x 9”.
Auctioned off for a charity event benefitting children and the arts in Richmond, VA.
Cherry and steel.
Weight bearing cannon. Purchased wheels.
'Daughter of the Regiment', OTSL.
Finished cannon onstage.
'Daughter of the Regiment', OTSL.
Fun little 1/2 snare drum pieces.
sonotube, plexi, ply, rope.
'Daughter of the Regiment', OTSL.
Commissioned stained glass piece.
Wholly Terra Studios, Baltimore. Designer: Becky Sagen
Hand carved joints on plaster molding.
Custom residential playroom with three sections- a clubhouse, then you can crawl through a netted platform above monkey bars, and out to a dino platform and down two slides. Bonus swing near the clubhouse!
Here are the dino platform and slides where you end up after crawling through the clubhouse and netted platform.
More pics to come- but one angle of a custom playroom with lego platform, climbing wall, and reading nooks.
Example for a prop class I was teaching
It’s just so cute!
Poplar screen, lace texture, scrim fabric.
Student Show, NYU. Designer: Ariel Lacey
Designer drawing and research photo for a tree wagon.
'Carmen', OTSL. Designer: Paul Edwards
Skeleton and frame.
Aluminum, ply, wire.
Mostly finished, unpainted trees.
'Carmen', OTSL. Designer: Paul Edwards
Close up of sheets of individually cast bark.
'Carmen', OTSL. Designer: Paul Edwards
Replica of a molded seat NYC subway car circa 1980's.
Ply, bendy board, steel grating.
'Marisol', NYU. Designer: Ariel Lacey
Sits on the back of the toilet, requested by a friend.
Bathroom at work needed some personality
Commissioned pieces. All pieces below are one of a kind, but similar pieces can be made on request. These are just a handful of samples of our body of work, and we love a challenging piece! Got an idea? Contact us to talk about it! becky@sagenworks.com
Reclaimed Douglas Fir from a home in NYC. Metal legs, inset metal straps on top.
Walnut, cherry, and sapele alternate with a translucent smokey grey resin in this original Sagenworks design. Inlaid brass rods add asymmetrical accents, custom steel base.
Detail photo of woods and inlay
Cute oval standing desk with a fluted walnet paneling wrap and gold accents.
Solid ash 'mini' crib (mattress size: 24"x38") built custom for a tiny upper east side bedroom. Removable front panel to convert in to a toddler bed.
A second view of the ash 'mini' crib. Baby not included :)
A side table for a new born's bedroom. Working abacus and working wooden gears to entertain and to educate as she gets older and more awesome. One set of gears turns via a crank, the other by moving gears directly.
Solid Mahogany table, ply gears, oak beads.
Close up of crank driven gears
Close up of gears movable by hand.
Super fun custom piece- a front desk with ADA accessible counter, latched gate to keep dogs from making a break for it, and live edge maple top. Shelving and desk top on the back for equipment and computer.
Front view of the Chevron woodwork with a custom rustic paint treatment.
2" thick Guanacaste wood and custom welded steel legs.
Another shot of this piece in different lighting! Thanks to the client for this gorgeous shot!
Built in cabinets for a family of 4. Custom maple shelving and shiplap, purchased cabinets.
Custom cabinets and floating shelves for an amazing wine and whiskey room. Fluted paneling front, custom cabinets, maple top and shelves. I love this piece!
We were lucky enough to have our piece featured in a spread about the wine and whiskey room! Magazine: Dripping Springs Lifestyle, image by Kristen Hafner.
Top view of the table, with the awesome resin filled knot.
River rocks float on top of blue green resin on this coffee table. Live edge Elm, custom steel legs.
In- process shot of some of the metal work that happens in custom work.
Simple built in with fully adjustable shelves to make a huge visual statement. All custom built, maple counter above cabinets.
Ambrosia Maple in a classic shaker table. Left unfinished (no sealer) so the wood will patina naturally
Custom front desk unit for CF Second Wave. Live edge cedar top, pine, ply and steel construction elsewhere. Front desk needed a lot of storage and an integrated work desk behind it. Fun bowtie joinery to reinforce the beautiful cedar top.
Bow tie joinery
Progress shot of the mixed hardwood butcher block counter for Kate’s travelling counter. Ash, Sapele, Walnut and Maple.
Custom counter on wheels for a food vendor who travels to events! Beautiful mixed hardwood butcher block top, shelving underneath.
Closer shot of the finished piece.
Elm and metallic blue resin live edge side table. Custom steel base to match height of client’s couch.
Custom dining table for Alex and Alena! Live edge sycamore with prefabricated steel legs. Great starter piece, plenty of room to change the legs/ reshape the table as they grow and move.
Custom dining table for Alex and Alena, better shot of the gorgeous edging. Live edge sycamore, prefabricated steel legs.
Built to fit a slightly awkward nook- maple and purchased steel legs.
Built to match furniture inherited from the client’s grandmother. Fun piece with sliding glass doors at the top, interior shelving, and a cute leg detail.
Custom coffee table. Top is reclaimed Douglas fir with Brazilian hardwood edging from a reclaimed NYC park bench. Bottom shelf is reclaimed alaskan cedar from NYC water tanks. Steel legs. Project involved a lot of planing, and I made the shavings and scraps into a set of ‘roses’ for the client’s wife.
Whimsical recycle of wood shavings from previous table.
A project that deserves it’s own portfolio page, this is one of my all time favorite projects to date in over two decades working in entertainment. From an incomplete pile of parts to working electric car onstage in 12 days. It was a beast of a project on a short deadline! All work done by me unless noted. Built at Opera Theater of St. Louis for a production of ‘Carmen’. Designed by Paul Edwards.
From zero to working electric car in 12 days. Finished project. I called her 'Lola'.
'Carmen', Opera Theater St. Louis. Designer: Paul Edwards
Day 1- received 3 things: 1) Pile of fiberglass body pieces.
2) Electric golf cart chassis already modified by Dick Shetley to the dimensions of the final car.
3) Designer provided research photo.
Progress, week 1.
In- progress, week 1
In- progress, end of week 1
In-progress, week 2
In-progress, almost end of week 2.
Final Product, 12 days start to finish. Aluminum framing, lumber, fiberglass, bondo, plexi, cintra, leather, etc.
All work executed by Becky Sagen except:
Modified chassis and running boards: Dick Shetley
Upholstery: Scott Rygalski
Working headlights: local 6 union electricians
Final paint: USA union painters
Lola's other side.
'Carmen', OTSL. Designer: Paul Edwards
The white 'top' was a structural seat for the opera singers to ride in on.
View of the electric car charging.
