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BY PEKAY PETTUS
WHEN PAT and Ginger Biggs move into the new “Dutch colonial” house they’re building atop a knoll near Flint Hill, they’ll have no trouble furnishing it. Pat Biggs makes furniture when he’s not busy with his duties as a science and physics teacher at the Intermediate School in Front Royal. But now, he’s also working on the new house, so he’s not making desks, sideborads, tables, lamps, decon’s beaches or dressers at the rate he usually does.
Pat has been working with wood since he was a teenager, and he prefers to work in the Queen Anne and Chippendale style. The house he and Ginger live in now is furnished with handsome pieces from those periods.
“I don’t pretend that I work as the Colonial craftsmen did,” Pat said. “I have a lot of mechanized equipment to help me.” But the furniture he turns out in his basement workshop reflects the same attention to proportion and detail that characterize authentic pieces from those periods.
“I LIKE the way this kind of furniture looks and I know I could never afford
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