We built a wine cellar for my parent’s Madison house. Built it in a single day with the help of my dad and brother. Didn’t put any finish on the wood. Capacity is something like 500+ bottles, and my dad managed fill it up!

I had recently replaced the blower fan motor on the furnace when the whole thing went out. Some failure in the control board which was cost prohibitive to fix. Thought it was wasteful to throw the new motor out so decided to feed two birds with one scone, and build an air filter cart for the workshop.

At the beginnning of 2019 we had been living in our house for just under 2 years. The storage situation in our master bedroom had been irritating us for while, and I started thinking of building a proper dresser. I wanted to build a dresser that would last at least my whole life, and which would never go out of style, so I choose to build it out of solid walnut, using traditional joinery everywhere except the drawer slides.

Leading up to this project, I had been working more with different types of joinery, and was starting to feel comfortable with executing the key joints (mortise and tenons, dovetails, lap, finger, bridal, etc.) using the equipment in my shop. Still, a dresser would have more pieces and different types of joints than anything I had done up to that point.

Writing this in 2023. I made a stepped planter to add some color to our back porch. Four years after originally making it, it’s holding up great and looks fantastic by mid-summer when the flowers fill in. Would definitely build another, but would make the trays deeper as the plants tend to get root bound.

I built a walnut mantle for my parents house in Madison wisconsin.