A Captains Bed for a Little Girl

This is the second such bed that I have built in this fashion.  If you take a look through the archives of this blog, you will find it.  That one was for my niece.  This bed is for a buddy's daughter who was in need of a bed.  I was happy to build it.

A Hutch for the Kitchen project!

In fabricating the new kitchen cabinets....the wife wanted to include a slide out garbage container deal.  Which is good...I would like to eliminated the sight of the garbage can from the kitchen also.  However, it cost us a few drawers.  To make up for that....and to make up for a coffer mug shelf and a spice cabinet that were also lost to the new remodel, I built this hutch to take up the slack.  Came out really great with slide out drawers on the bottom behind the doors...a large pull out drawer just below the counter top and then up above...a mug nook and slide out spice drawer, as well as some additional storage behind a pair of doors at the top. Some pics of it's fabrication:

Our kitchen remodel this summer

It's been a while since adding any new projects into my blog.  A good reason for that is that I was busy a bee renovating our kitchen.  Before even getting into the demo of the old kitchen, I was busy in the shop fabricating the new red oak cabinets that were going to be installed in the renovation.  Here - a few pics of the cabinet building:

  Those pictures being from the shop....here are a few of the kitchen remodel once the cabs were built and ready to install:

  It was a heck of a large job, but I have to say...very well worth the time and expense!

CPAP Cabinet

 For more years than I care to admit to...I have wanted/needed to build a small cabinet type piece of furniture for our bedroom to set my CPAP (Constant Positive Airway Pressure) machine on top of.  I'm not sure of just how long it has been since I started using the machine, but I can tell you that I have somewhere in the neighborhood of like 27,000 hours of use on one.  I had been using this ramshackle set up that was nowhere near sufficient for holding the machine, but for reasons only God knows...I never got around to building a replacement.  Well, since I retired...I have much more easily found the time to dedicate in the shop to things I have been meaning to fabricate.

 So, here is what I came up with - I sized it so that as the CPAP machine rests on top...the top of the machine was not a hindrance to me from reaching things on my nightstand. I wanted to make the cabinet in the same exact style of the rest of the bedroom furniture that I built for the bedroom (see elsewhere in this blog) but I could only basically copy the raised panel motif and the coloration difference between the panels and the rest of the casework.  I loved the coloration difference because it set apart the panels and highlighted them.  I was not able to match the style of "feet" in the corners from the other furniture.  The footprint of this small cabinet didn't allow for it, so I just winged it with a simple 45% angle up on each corner.

Forgot about these items

  I had for a long time wanted to build some outdoor tables to hold some planters for in front of our garage.  In doing a project for a co-worker a number of months ago...in return, besides paying me for building the project...he also gave me a darned good load of white oak that he had cut up on his property in Pennslvania.  I gladly took it and it was some very nice clear stock.  I made the tables and also the planters out of this stuff and I still have more of it left.  I also incorporated some walnut into the planters for visual interest.