I finally found the time to add the trim to the daybed and to add the baseboard to this section of wall, cabinet and daybed. Whew! It’s been quite a while since my husband finished building these, and…
I wanted to build a small wood storage cart on wheels to safely store small cut sheets of plywood and masonite, and with a second side to contain cut dimensional lumber. I took my design from the…
I built a bench out of some scrap lumber this weekend. Made it “narrow-stance” to allow for the severely rounded edges on the two pieces of 2×6; then Terry suggested he liked the rounded bits on the sitting side. So…
I keep lots of large cardboard boxes and styrofoam on hand for when I need to ship my paintings. I decided I needed a simple shelf for containing the large cardboard.
OK, this was super easy-peasy. I cut 1/8″ plywood to the correct height and width to fit in my art storage cart, then again using the circular saw, cut a double-kerf slot halfway up the middle of one…
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…
