Dallas Manker
Design · Build · Improve — Ohio, USA

Dallas
Manker

I design and build things that last — fabrication, home projects, and mechanical work, documented with real photographs and real process.

Location
Ohio, USA
Focus
Design · Build · Improve
Documented
02 Projects
Project 01 — Fabrication · Residential · 2025

Custom
Mailbox

A mailbox built like it matters. The brief: build it once, build it to last — no wood to rot, no steel to rust.

  • Construction100% composite
  • PostHorizontal slats
  • SettingRiver-rock bed
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Before and after: a weathered steel mailbox on a wooden post replaced by a custom composite mailbox with address numerals
Fig. 01Before / after — the weathered steel box and its replacement.
Mailbox post under construction on a workbench — horizontal composite slats with address numerals mounted, enclosure set above
Fig. 02In the shop — slats fitted, numerals set, enclosure resting above.
Material study — the build

Composite,
through and through.

Every visible part of the mailbox — slatted post, enclosure, trim — is composite. That was the whole brief: build it once, build it to last.

  • PostHorizontal composite slats
  • NumeralsAddress 515, mounted proud of the face
  • EnclosureComposite mailbox box
  • BedRiver rock, two tones
Three-quarter view of the finished playhouse at night — lit entry, black front door, staircase, and storage fitted beneath
Fig. 03Finished — lit entry, staircase, storage fitted beneath.
Project 02 — Playhouse · Fabrication · 2026

Rynlee’s
House

A custom loft bed and playhouse — a room within a room. Designed, built, fitted, adjusted, and finished by hand. Every cut, every screw.

  • ConceptRoom within a room
  • FrontCladding · trim · black door
  • LightingOne control · smart-home planned
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Close-up of the playhouse front door — black finish, metal pull with a ribbon, personalized doormat at the threshold
Fig. 04Front door detail — black door, ribbon pull, personalized mat.
Why it was built

A father wanted to build his daughter something exceptional and permanent — so he built what he could not find.

Dallas Manker outdoors at sunset in the mountains
Fig. 05Dallas Manker — Ohio.
Profile

I don’t specialize in one trade or material.

I specialize in figuring things out. By day I run commercial roofing projects; the rest of the time I’m building.

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Have something
worth building?

Questions about a project, or thinking about something of your own — get in touch.

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