Posts in the «household» Category

• 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 […]