Design

Learning to Create Dadoes for a Wood Storage Cart

Published July 29, 2014

I learned to use a dado stack today. Woo-hoo! How cool is that? Got all my pieces cut now for the below wood storage cart. I love my new table saw!

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Finishing My 10 Foot-long Desk

Published September 25, 2013

I put 4-6 or maybe 8 coats of oil-based varnish on each side of the 7 pieces that go into making my new humongous desk (plus dyed and varnished 3 cabinets), so that whole process seemed to take forever, as…

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Cut My Desktops Today

Published August 25, 2013

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…

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Window Seat/Daybed Design

Published June 6, 2013

I’m trying to work out how the window seat/daybed will be built. It’s a bit of a wonky space with a/c ducts and some wiring that needs covering up by the window seat (but we also need to retain…

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Our Soon-to-be-New(-ish) Attic Room

Published June 4, 2013

Design of bookshelves for right half of attic

Our attic room is a project started 7 years ago that I hope will be completed this year. Next week, the black and white checkerboard flooring will start to go…

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Solar Ivy

Published August 22, 2010

Check out these solar “ivy” leaves! Solar and wind-power combined that you can add to your house, beginning this October. Read and see more about it at inhabitat.com.

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