Projects

Matthew and I have enjoyed working on some new projects together since we moved into our house.  I have loved Ana White's Woodworking Website as a way of finding furniture plans that are easy to follow, functional, stylish, and relatively inexpensive... the kind of plans you don't have to be a professional woodworker to follow.

We uploaded our pictures to Ana's website.  You can see the finished products and also the adjustments we made here:

Our Farmhouse Dining Table

Our Living Room Ledges

Matthew is enjoying building things for the satisfaction of having a project to work on, the ability to make things that organize the clutter of life, and not having to spend a lot of money to do so.  This is also the first time in a long time he's not had extra research/studying to do outside of his 9-5.

Matthew's dad didn't have a use for this Shop Smith, so we thought we'd try it out.  It's an all-in-one kind of tool.

Stud

the plan

Working on his first solo woodworking project

Finished product

Then he decided to make a shelf for his car cleaning supplies (left) and used extra pegboard to hang more tools on the right

Getting a little more organized in his man cave