Remember this project? It's my live edge black walnut table I built in the spring. It has been completed for months, I have just been working on finding a welder to make a base. It's finally happening! Today started out buying some remnant pieces at Metal Mart, yep right in between making sack lunches and clearing out Costco I happily shopped for steel: It was a first for me and pretty cool. I rummaged through remnants and came home with 120 pounds of 1/4" and 3/8" … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
How To Make a Wooden Cutting Board
Nicole and Danny by Katie Hill My sister-in-law got married this summer to a total rock star. I am so happy for them. I wanted to give her something meaningful but practical so I made a cool cutting board with scrap wood in the shop. To incorporate both of them, and their life ahead, I found wood from where they both grew up and their future. Her family is from California, her fiance is from Washington and they now live in DC. So... walnut from Cali, a beautiful maple from Washington, and an … [Read more...]
Pantry Organization- for less than $60
Do you ever walk through new homes and they have those really cute glass doors on the pantry? Every time I see one I think, "you couldn't pay me to put a glass door on my pantry!" Probably because the majority of the life I have lacked pantry organization and the pantry has looked like this: Yep. Now the world has seen my crazy sloppy food pantry. Hopefully ya'all can keep that on the DL. Although I would have run with the bulls to have this pantry when we were in our apartment, now it … [Read more...]
Laundry Room Renovation, Taking down a shelf, adding upper cabinets
The laundry room design is coming along. Remember what it looked like before? I decided to go with Option A! It added plenty of storage, the layout worked without having to redo plumbing or the counter top, and it was the least expensive. I painted the lower cabinet, took the shelf down, added spackle and repainted (still some touch ups to do). Taking down a shelf is easy. Usually they are attached with long brad nails. Getting them down is as easy as prying and pulling. No … [Read more...]