Overall this is a pretty simple project, as you can see in the video. Making the jig is a huge help in consistently cutting the holes in the center. For...
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The Table Top I started out by cutting down the 2×6 pieces for the top (5) and the two seats (4) to 36″. This is where you can get extra…
Recently, we packed up the family and drove to Birmingham, AL to visit some good friends for a long weekend. One of the families that we stayed with had been…
If you remember, I built a gigantic desk a couple of years back, that I named “Über desk” because it was.. well.. huge. Über desk served me well, but was…
After the cutting and building in Part 1, I was ready to start assembling the main structure of the bed. The only difficult part of this was managing the weight…
We have 4 kids and 4 bedrooms. One of those rooms is for Mommy and Daddy, one is for our daughter, and one is a guest room. So, the 4th bedroom will eventually house 3 boys (I could almost hear you gasp…) Right now, my older two sons (5 1/2 and 2 1/2 years) are sharing it, and my youngest (4 months) won’t move in there for quite a while. We’ve known for a while that bunk beds were in our future, and in my normal style, I wanted to make them rather than buy them. I’ve spent months thinking, researching and looking for inspiration, but after my youngest was born, I thought it was time to really get the project in motion.
My kids LOVE animals, and we try to encourage that love in any way that we can. We’ve got multiple aquariums, multiple dogs, multiple cats… you get the point. Our neighborhood has a ton of trees, so we also have a lot of birds, squirrels, and BATS! We can walk around a night and just see them buzzing overhead, it’s pretty awesome.
Yet another thing on my long, long “to do someday” list.. a COMPOSTER!! This has been one of those projects that I kept thinking was a good idea, but not…
Our coat rack died. After years of service, it just gave in to the weight of coats and hats for 4 kids and 2 adults (and countless visitors). RIP coat…
So, I’ve been writing more lately, and posting less about what I was actually DOING (although writing is DOing something, I suppose) Well,here’s one of the things I did this…
