Not a major kitchen redo, just paint, new cabinet doors and drawers and hardware, and deep drawers finally installed in the kitchen nook cabinet.
Furnishings
Kitchen Nook Cabinet
Our house has a nook at the back of the kitchen. We didn’t have a use for it, so stuff started piling up on a folding table we set up last Christmas. I built a cabinet to replace the folding table. The plan was to tile the counter-top to match the existing counter-top (as...
Headboard
The headboard I made recently. Here’s the top after a coat of varnish (Tried and True with a couple of tablespoons of old recipe Marine Spar Varnish (now banned in California)). That’s Plyboo with a strip of cherry at the bottom. This part is 58 inches wide and 25 inches high. The base it...
TV Console … Finished!
I rubbed in the last coat of oil last night. I’ll let it cure for a couple of days before I bring it home. Front. Front, shelf and glass view. Front, shelf and glass view. Top. Long view. Back. Cable storage and management. Back, in shadow.
First Coat of Oil
Here are couple of shots after the first coat of oil. I’m using the tried and true “Tried and True“, which is my new favorite finish.
More TV Console
Coming along. The last 10% of the job takes 90% of the time. Here’s the base. The glass guy up the way thinks using solid mahogany is a waste for this since the base will be mostly out of view. He’s probably right. Or maybe not. We’ll have a better idea when it’s on...
TV Console
In work. For the television and all the stuff that plugs into it. Front. A single shelf goes in the middle there. The holes are for adjustable shelves on both sides. Back. There’s room in the middle for power strips and so on (cables and wires will snake through those holes near the bottom.)...
Production Box Lamps — First Run
Still need to work out a few kinks in the process (2.5 hours labor for each is 1.0-1.5 hours too much) and the product (I’ve tried three different methods of attaching the bottom to the rest of the box and none of the three are 100% satisfactory), but I’m pretty happy with the results....
Glasslight Box Prototype
A glass artist moved into a vacant studio space near the wood shop. One thing lead to another, and I wound up with this prototype lamp. No cord management, but maybe the next effort will be to incorporate some glass and light into the original Cordboxes — or better yet — into the latest...