Forget The Shelves: Sit On Your Magazines. Bedroom-design-huelsta-manit-2.jpg (750×497) Top 10: Shelves And Shelving. Bed-azzling Woven Headboard Instructions for Queen. Look to inspire. Less is the New More. Good Design For Living in Small ApartmentsAs people migrate to smaller spaces, good design helps a lot.
This is something they figured out in Europe long ago, that if you don't have a lot of horizontal room you can go vertical. Tumidei in Italy makes some of the nicest stuff, like this unit with lots of storage under the bed. This unit just raises the floor high enough for beds to slide under. Wooden Hotel Key Rack. Wipe Off Weekly Menu Board. I am a meal planner.
I refuse to go grocery shopping without my week’s worth of meals planned out and list made. (It’s either that or wander aimlessly around the grocery store for two hours and then make ten more trips back during the week to get things I forgot.) Once I get the groceries unloaded, I usually forget what I planned for, so I put together this super easy wipe-off menu board to keep track of what’s for dinner each night! Wipe-Off Menu Board Tutorial Supplies: Picture frame with glass front (I love these 12×12 frames I found at Ben Franklin for only $7!) 1. 2. 3. 4. Now everyone in the family knows what’s for dinner each week! I decided my frame would look better black in my kitchen, so I spray painted it black. Little Birdie Secrets are regular contributors to Make and Takes and was born from the crafting obsession of three friends living in the Pacific Northwest. 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.
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. How to Make a Bookshelf Headboard - Furniture Projects. Building an Interior Door: Part One - The Frame. April 23rd, 2009 in blogs Email 58 users recommend Full size home doors are a project we can all find a place for, but they can be intimidating.
There's a lot of lumber, and a lot of weight, plus they're a little bigger scale than what we typically work on. But they're really nothing more than oversized cabinet doors. This is a contemporary door, which was built based on a sketch provided by the client. Clamps, Clamps, and More Clamps Interior doors are usually 1 3/8" thick. Old School Jointing. Garden Closet Storage Project. Overview and plan If you don't have room in your yard for a large, freestanding shed, you can still create plenty of space for garden tools with a shed attached to the back or side of the house.
If you're an experienced builder, you can build this shed in a couple of weekends. Ours cost about $400, but you could save about $75 by using treated lumber, pine, and asphalt shingles instead of cedar. Adding a Hidden Compartment - Woodworking Project. Adding a Hidden Compartment The current issue of Woodsmith (No. 127) features a drawer with a hidden compartment that's built into the back of the drawer.
Weird and Wacky Furniture By Straight Line Designs. EmailEmail Straight Line Designs is a one-of-a-kind workshop that has been operating out of Vancouver, British Columbia for the past 25 years.
In addition to installations, sculptures and private commissions, designer Judson Beaumont and his staff of eight full-time craftspeople have designed and constructed a variety of wacky cartoon-style furniture and projects for public institutions and children’s exhibitions throughout North America and abroad. Focused on quality and custom design, Judson’s studio stays far away from mass production and is as imaginative as children themselves. 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. 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. Contemporary Bookcase - Projects - American Woodworker - StumbleUpon. Fresh, clean lines, simple, strong construction, and a design you can modify to fit any room.
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.
Make This - Retro Modern Wood&Clock - Luxe DIY - How Did You Make This? - StumbleUpon. Throughout most of history, everything was made by hand. 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.
The power tools I used included a computer and dremel (and really, the dremel was optional.) Supplies: