Author: adriana

One of our more recent residential projects was a gorgeous waterfront home in Fort Myers, Florida.  The owners started designing the home in early 2016 and after months of working with their interior designer and builder, they finally decided on a soft, contemporary style home.

Located on a corner lot overlooking the Deep Lagoon, this 10,000 square foot home boasts modern, high-end living to its core and is surrounded with our horizontal aluminum railing in anodized silver.

This waterfront home in Fort Myers, FL has 3,500 linear feet of our horizontal aluminum railing and is the fundamental finishing touch on this contemporary style home. These curved horizontal aluminum railings provide an unobstructed barrier around the deck and were made specifically for this project.

As you walk onto the deck, you come upon an incredible, one-of-a-kind, serene pool that resembles one of a high-end luxury hotel.  It is a feature of the home that includes palm trees and a walkway that floats across the pool to the Jacuzzi area.

Inside the home, you find a 222 bottle wine cellar equipped with its own compressor to keep the temperature at whatever degree necessary for the wine and a collection of fine glass that has been collected over the years from the homeowner’s travels to France, Italy and China.

The view from the inside looking out is unimpeded by our modern aluminum railing and compliments the fine elements of this high-end, modern home.

Ron Kopko, is the interior designer who found Green Oxen and designed the railing with our team of engineers.  After speaking to the owner of the home, we asked her, “what was an important aspect of working with us”? Her reply was, “Green Oxen offers a green product and is eco-friendly.” It was a pleasure being part of this residential project and adding to its beauty and property value with our modern and sustainable railing.

Why risk project outcomes? Know what you’re getting with Green Oxen.

You might be thinking, “modern horizontal railings don’t fit in with my property aesthetic”. However, “modern” is used to describe what our Epulum railing look like on their own. When placed into a project, the railing transforms, compliments and elevates a variety of different style homes including farmhouse, coastal, craftsman, colonial, Mediterranean, ranch-style, and traditional.

More often than not, railing is an afterthought to a remodel project or new construction building and tend to be a part of the final thought process. With Green Oxen, our carefully crafted and engineered railing system adds property value with high-quality, sustainable aluminum railing. Engineered to be modular in it’s design, the Epulum aluminum railing system is easy to install, repair and low maintenance even in coastal living environments where railing is exposed to sun and other harsh elements such as salt.

Railing is an important design element on any residential or commercial project and our goal is to offer something that is both modern and functional at the same time. We wanted to frame the intended architecture in something timeless and in a sustainable way, so Epulum also enhances LEED projects as its recycled content is high and has unmatched recyclability.

Green Oxen is here to offer our customers a premium, unique, and modern solution to their railing needs. Our engineers are available to guide you through the process of selecting and specifying a system to suit your structure. From spiral staircases to interior and exterior balconies, get in touch with us and let us answer your questions.

Every successful company begins with a great story. Green Oxen has no shortage of adventures, but before we get into those, let’s start at the beginning. We get asked questions like these all the time: “What does Green Oxen mean”? “Why did you start this company?” “What makes you different?” You probably find yourself asking them too. So, let’s get into it.

How Green Oxen Got Started.

Green Oxen was started by two brothers, Alex and Jamie Schlinkmann, who own and operate Automatic Manufacturing Systems. For the last 30 years, they have been designing machinery that some of the top companies in the world use today. These machines are used to make everything from aircraft structures to power-generation equipment, wind turbines and everything in-between. These same machines produce components for Green Oxen’s products. Needless to say, they are very detail-oriented engineers.

When the brothers were building their homes in South Florida, they were searching for modern, sustainable, and robust items that were unique, innovative, and impactful. They were met with a major gap in products for modern homes. They found a decent selection of railings, but if you wanted a modern look, that usually fell into “custom”. Custom-made metal architectural elements were normally architect-designed and they found them to be expensive and hard-to-source. So the two sat down and set out to invent their own elements by embracing their entrepreneurial spirit once again.

It seemed that people just couldn’t get enough of the duo’s designs and quickly became inundated with requests for these items in both residential and commercial properties. Now all they had to do was come up with a name and build the foundation of the business. Sounds easy, right?

How Did You Come Up With The Name Green Oxen?

Paying homage to their background and upbringing, the brothers were reminiscent of a High School German class when they were asked to come up with an idea for a business and to name it. The boys went home and spoke to their dad about it and came up with the name Green Oxen for this fantasy business they would one day create together. Since that day, and even more so, since their father passed, they were determined to use that name somehow and honor their father’s memory. The opportunity finally came to fruition with this new passion project and Green Oxen was born.

What Top 3 Things Did They Learn Through The Process And Do Better?

1. Most metal architectural products are fabricated using rough, dirty fabrication equipment and then finished by manual processing to the desired result.
2. Quality control is done by inspection and rework and a lot of individual judgment is utilized.
3. Manufacturing these components in high volume to tight tolerances is key to providing modern highly aesthetic products worthy of their place in high-value spaces.

Picture this: 4 years ago you started planning to custom-build a new house. Since then, you’ve hired an architect and interior designer to make your visions come to life. Just as your lifelong project is finalizing, you look outside of the bay window out to your waterfront view and realize, you need railings. You talk to a few contractors and railing companies and they all offer you a cheap solution that just doesn’t host the same synergy of the immaculate home you took the time to perfect. You take your search to Google and land on a modern railing page called Epulum Railings by Green Oxen. You do some reading to find out that not only are they sleek, easy-to-install, and sturdy, but they are also eco-friendly, modern and weather resistant.

So, your next move is to fill out a form and request a quote to which you receive a response from one of Green Oxen’s sales engineers that will help walk you through the options and ensures you get the very best for your home.

If you are in the market for railing and you want something that you can’t just buy at a major mass-market home, but it is still an affordable and modern option, consider the Epulum modular aluminum railing system.

Green Oxen Modern Architectural Solutions

One of our newest customers, Gabriela, had the following situation:

She had been planning and designing her new home in Brick, New Jersey for 4 years. She wanted everything to be perfect. She hired a local architect, Richard Tokarski, who had a visionary eye and impeccable taste for a rich aesthetic as well as practicality. They landed on Green Oxen Silver Epulum Railings which once installed, brought her property to life while simultaneously raising her property value and keeping her waterfront view unobstructed. After speaking to her, we found out that a big draw to the railings, other than their appearance and durability, was that they are eco-friendly and made in the USA. She ended up surrounding her home with our railing and we wanted to share with you the final result.

Why risk project outcomes? Know what you’re getting with Green Oxen.