Check out this gorgeous color! And, it's super comfy. The least expensive one at the Futon Store, Austin, and it's perfect! (now to find fabric to cover the pillows).
One of the many positive outcomes of all my efforts to complete the remodel of our attic room this summer and fall is that I’ve lost about 18 pounds (so far). Haven’t been eating any…
While I’ve been building my 10-foot long desk (see the previous post), Terry’s been knocking out this fabulous cabinet and daybed…the daybed is still in progress, but coming along quite nicely, I think.
Slow, but steady. Now I have to wait hours between each glue-up of edging to table, due to the small number of clamps we own, but it’s going well. I’ll use pipe and/or bar clamps for the other…
I’m closing in on completing my desk building project…
Finished the ebony dye and varnish of the under-desk cabinets and left desktop varnishing. Still need to finish and add edging, the right desktop, and a connecting piece in the middle.…
Wouldn’t you know, just as soon as I started doing the varnishing on my desk parts, the humidity in Austin went way up. It’s even been spitting rain periodically. All of which slows down the curing time of…
So I decided to dye-stain my desk cabinets ebony, which will still allow the wood grain to show through, but just darken the color to not quite black. One more round…
Another gorgeous August day, and I’m getting pretty good with a circular saw. I cut 2 44.5″ x 60″ desktops out of two 60″x60″ pieces of beautiful Baltic birch (man, that stuff weighs a ton! Thirteen…
After working so hard for so many hours/days/weeks/months in a row that I literally made myself sick the previous week, this week I accomplished a great deal towards the end of the attic project. And I'm so, SO happy.
I put together 3 of these little rubberwood tables to serve as part of the base for my desk, which will have a beautiful Baltic birch tabletop made from 2 gorgeous 5’x 5′ pieces that I will be getting from…
