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Slimdesk by Manuelsaez & Yanko Design. Slimdesk Hides All Your Office Supply Unmentionables Another practical furniture design from Manuelsaez, the Slimdesk reconfigures a desk’s drawers top open on the top of the desk, rather than the sides.

Slimdesk by Manuelsaez & Yanko Design

Also hiding a power strip and USB ports beneath its cherry veneer, the desk takes everything in to account, even using one of its hollow legs for cable management. Grete Jalk Plywood Chair - Blogs. Stylish Chair Made of Bent Plywood And Leather – Kurven side structure detail of Stylish Chair Made of Bent Plywood And Leather – Home, Building, Furniture and Interior Design Ideas. Redirecting. Collector Quality Furniture Since 1900. Light Wood, Literally: Glow-in-the-Dark Outdoor Furniture. Not light as in weight nor as in the tone of the wood, this furniture is literally alight from within – bands of bright orange, purple, blue and white layered between slices of wood to create a remarkable look.

Light Wood, Literally: Glow-in-the-Dark Outdoor Furniture

Make This - Retro Modern Wood&Clock - Luxe DIY - How Did You Make This? Throughout most of history, everything was made by hand.

Make This - Retro Modern Wood&Clock - Luxe DIY - How Did You Make This?

When manufacturing got involved, specialized details like curved wood started to die out. With new technologies like laser cutting it’s practical to add details back in, like the 1930′s influenced curves on this desk clock. This project was made with a laser cut structure that was covered in wood veneer by hand. Build a Dining Table From Salvaged Materials : Rooms : Home & Garden... Make salvaged materials your own by turning them into a dining room table with this project.

Build a Dining Table From Salvaged Materials : Rooms : Home & Garden...

Materials and Tools: tongue-and-groove 2x6-inch boards (from reclaimed or salvaged lumber)salvaged iron bands2x4-inch boards4x4-inch boardsnails or staplescarriage bolts1¾-inch screwsdowel screwssealerstainwood planerpocket-hole jigclampnail gun or staplerT-square rulerhammerblock of woodtorchdistressing tools (various drill bits or chains)table sawcircular sawhandsawrouter (with 1¼-inch rabbeting bit)vise grippaintbrushorbital sandertape Steps: 1. Contemporary Bookcase - Projects. Fresh, clean lines, simple, strong construction, and a design you can modify to fit any room.

Contemporary Bookcase - Projects

By Randy Johnson The credo of many great 20th century architects was “Form Follows Function.” And for this bookcase, it certainly does. The strong shelves are supported in a straightforward fashion by equally strong uprights. No decoration, no superfluous details, not even a back to mar its perfect geometry. For you, the woodworker, this bookcase has beauty of a different kind.The joinery is amazingly simple: Long threaded rods are concealed inside the pieces and tie the whole bookcase together.

100 Creative Furniture / Inspiration / Splashnology - Web Design and Web... InShare19 In this roundup you will find some stunning, creative and unique furniture design ideas.

100 Creative Furniture / Inspiration / Splashnology - Web Design and Web...

B. organic. Woodworking. Niesamowita prosta sztuczka dla majsterkowicza. Woodworkers Journal : Jig Based Joinery : Accent Table. Matt Finder - Complect Coffee Table. - Winter 2010-2011 There is an increasing need to develop products that can be transported as efficiently as possible, but products designed to meet these requirements often sacrifice aesthetics to do so.

Matt Finder - Complect Coffee Table

As a result, people continue to purchase products that transport less efficiently. Named after a synonym for "interweave," Complect features bent plywood legs that are woven through a solid walnut tabletop. It was designed to combine simple home assembly and high quality construction into a flat-packing table that doesn't look like one. Complect is easy to assemble and disassemble, and requires only a screwdriver to completely remove its legs.

Complect was a finalist in the 2011 Design Quest Furniture Competition, a competition open to students and professionals of all ages and experiences from around the world, and was displayed at the final event in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Wine Holder For Your Bicycle « Designer Modern Lighting & Contemporary Furniture Store for Home & Office. Home - Killstress Designs Killstress Designs. Seat Back, Rocker On: Modern Curved-Wood Rocking Chair. Maybe more than any other kind of chair, rockers have certain cultural associations as a furniture type – they are traditionally ornate, featuring turned-wood elements and many pieces cut and fit into one another along mortise-and-tenon conventions.

Seat Back, Rocker On: Modern Curved-Wood Rocking Chair

From the narrow profile to the swooping lines and plywood styling, this is anything but your ordinary rocking chair design. And yes, this design rocks. Made of skinny layers of maple and walnut to accent its curves, each bend is clean, crisp and minimal in this somewhat non-traditional approach to rocking chair construction. Moreover, the pieces slot neatly into one another without visible joints nor decorative flourishes.

Each surface is articulated as a single curved plane rather than a collection of assembled wooden parts. Woodworking projects tagged with jig. Turnings. Custom Furniture and Cabinetry in Boise, Idaho by J. Alexander Fine Woodworking. Welcome to the first in a series of posts in our Woodworking 101 category.

Custom Furniture and Cabinetry in Boise, Idaho by J. Alexander Fine Woodworking

Today we will look at the most basic skill all woodworkers have to learn and master, joinery techniques. As you will see below, there are dozens of different ways to join two pieces of wood together. Each with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. Box Joint The box joint, also called a finger joint, connects two boards at the corners. Butt Joint The butt joint is the simplest and weakest joint. Dovetail Joint The dovetail is one of the strongest, most beautiful, and most complex joinery techniques that woodworkers employ.

55 Great Sites For Woodworkers :Construction Management Schools: Construction Management Degree. Do you have a love for woodworking?

55 Great Sites For Woodworkers :Construction Management Schools: Construction Management Degree

Having a husband that loves working in the garage and two sons in woodshop at school, I decided to put this list of sites together to help them as well as help others. From the novice to the advanced, if you are looking for some tips and tricks, design ideas, or just want to see what others are doing, this list has what you are looking for. These sites are not listed in any order other than by general topic. 1. Acorn House Workshop – Having started by building some bookshelves and dining table for the new house, this woodworking hobbyist has since turned out some very fine pieces of work. 2. 3. 4. 5.

A Sawhorse to Write Home About : Daily source of DIY craft projects and... LAMINATING A CHAIR BACK. This tutorial shows how to build a foam mold in order to laminate a chair back using the Thin Air Press. Building a mold using foam is an inexpensive alternative to making a mold from multi-layers of plywood. A good thing is that the material is inexpensive and the mold is completely re-usable many times over! Tools needed Sharp knife. Unusual Plywood Shelf Cool Walls Furniture Design. Unusual shelf of stripes Martin Gallagher designed a shelf made of plywood. Left to its original color and just what’s inside painted. Looks cool and unusual with stripes. Easy storage for keys, glasses, or your cell phone. Can be installed in every room and your living room.

Modern Bookshelves: 25 Very Creative Designs. We used to think that the emergence of the Internet will make books obselete. However, since this has not been the case, we therefore continue to need bookshelves to store our collection of books. In this roundup, we will showcase the 25 modern bookshelves, which are not only creative and interesting but very functional as well.