Posts in the «household» Category
- Mountain Wall Light
As my son has gotten older, his homework time has stretched later into the evening when light is fading. He clearly needed more photons. We had a few requirements: It had to look good with his custom desk, and book cabinet. His desk is in our family room, so it had to look good. It […]
- Australian Pine Live Edge Mirror
On one of our many boating trips to a favorite nearby beach we stumbled upon an Australian Pine rolling in the surf. As it was a hazard to navigation, I pulled it out of the surf and dragged it up on the beach. It was pretty large, roughly 25 feet long. This was back in […]
- Cypress Serving Tray
Each year, my son makes a gift for his teacher. Here is the 2020 tale as written by him. In May 2019 my dad cut down 2 Cypress trees and the wood sat in our driveway for way too long. After the wood was out of the driveway some went in the attic to […]
- Log Toggle Coat Rack
I have seen a bunch of these flip down toggle coat racks and have been intrigued by the designs. Modern and unobtrusive. Toggle a peg down if you need it, up if you don’t. I find them clever, but they are too modern looking for my taste. So I started imagining one that was based […]
- Latex Paint Tacky on Furniture: FIX IT
Though I much prefer the look of real wood, there are some pieces of furniture in my house that are painted. I’ve painted a few with latex paint. The problem is the tackiness. No matter how long I let the paint dry, even years later, it still feels tacky to the touch. Set something […]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (3) – Dovetails
The base of the chest will be held together with through dovetails (meaning the end grain of the tails will show). I like the alternating look of the endgrain and facegrain combinations. I have to admit that I am not an outstanding dovetailer …. some day I hope to be, but I’m not there yet..not […]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (2)
So from my drawing of the Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table I determined how much wood I would need and returned from the home center with a decent selection of white pine. The table sides are all panels 18″ high, so I created them by joining two 1″ x10″s By the time I […]
- Coffee Table / Chest / Play Table (1) Plan
I was at a high-end children’s toy store the other day with my son (1 yr old) and watched his eyes light up over a table full of Brio trains on a play table. As I watched how he used the table to play I noticed that the raised edge of the table kept the […]
- Dutch Doors from Pine Six Panel Doors
I have young a chocolate Lab that often need to be confined to one room or another and I heat my home with a propane stove so that requires that door be open to allow the heat to flow throughout the house. For a while we used baby gates to restrict the dog to one […]