Making A Plywood Panel Lift
I have been working on a room in our basement and I needed a panel lift to hang the plywood ceiling I am installing. I designed a lift that works on...
Making Our Dining Table
My wife has been threatening to buy a new dining room table for about a decade now and I keep saying I'm going to make one. The time has come. I need...
Sliding Pantry Door
We wanted to make a door for our new pantry and I have a bunch of sequoia that I cut about 6 years ago. I thought it would be nice to...
The Pantry Part 3: Shelves
I have made 6 inch, 12 inch, and 18 inch deep shelves for the pantry. I have also made a system for holding canning jars on 6 inch shelves. In this system,...
The Pantry Part 2: Grocery Bag Storage
I have been working on the grocery bag storage in the pantry. I made a bar for holding the cloth grocery bags and a pair of boxes for holding the paper and...
Making the Pantry Part 1
I have been working on our pantry, in a little Room off the kitchen. The walls of this Room are plywood, this will make it easy to do a french cleat...
Basement Storage Shelves
We have 2 closets in our basement that had no shelving. I thought about installing flat pieces of plywood as shelves but the span of 48 inches was too much for...
Making a Cubby Shelf
We needed more storage in Claire's room. We came up with a cubby shelf of nine cubbies in a three by three grid. Each cubby holds an eleven inch fabric box....
Calvin’s Desk Part 3
In part three of the series on Calvin's desk, I concentrate on the desk top, the back and putting it all together. In making the top, I glue two pieces of...
Calvin’s Desk Part 2
In part two of the series on Calvin's desk, I concentrated on the legs. When designing the legs, I initially started with a cruciform shape looking down from above. I liked the...
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French Cleat Coat Hooks
This is the second part to the Shoe and Laundry Storage Bench build. Here I hang a French cleat with no...
