Tag: furniture
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Side Table made of Osage Orange
A few months back, a friend brought me a gift after he visited our local lumber yard. He found a cookie of a yellow/orange colored wood that he thought would be a nice piece to work with. I enjoy making tables with cookies, because you can really highlight the growth rings and you can see…
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Finished Gradient Dresser for Penelope’s Nursery
Back in my previous life as a Sociology graduate student at Vanderbilt I was a big fan of a blog called Young House Love. My friend Ashley and I were completely awed by all of the projects this young couple completed, and their blogging style was pure fun to read. When I finished my coursework and delved into…
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Polishing Brass Hardware
Over the last week I’ve been working on refinishing an old wood dresser that has been in my family for a little over 30 years. My mom first got it from a friend when my dad was studying at Princeton, and my brother grew up with this dresser in his room. When I went to college,…
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Easy (inexpensive) DIY book shelves
I mentioned in our last post that I bought a 4 x 8 sheet of MDF and saved the extra material for another project. Well, this is the project…book shelves! Leslie has always wanted a room surrounded with bookshelves full of books…also known as a library. Our new office could not host a full library…
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DIY Inexpensive desks!
Since we wanted to have a new office that we could both use, we needed to have desks for both of us. We would love to have two big old desks with plenty of drawers, leather top, shiny old wood and with a big work area…but those desks usually come with a price tag out…
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