Posts in the «household» Category
- 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 jointed [...]
- 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 [...]