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!

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.

We refinished my childhood kitchen table, along with 6 chairs and a bench. Stripped the previous paint / finish and sanded all the way down to bare wood before finishing with a paint / stain combo.

Writing this in 2023. Not too long after we moved into our Westmont house, I built a bar cart to store cocktail supplies.

We moved into our Westmont townhouse in 2017, and I set to work on building out a suitable workshop in the unfinished basement. Its challenging to build projects without any suitable work surface, so my first project was to build a sturdy workbench.

Writing this in spring of 2023. During the spring of 2017 Kaylin and I were looking for houses. I was realizing we were way short of furniture for the house, and channeled some boredom into making some bedside end tables.

This was just my third woodworking project I attempted. Designed to be simple, both visually and to construct, with an emphasis on a two-tone color scheme. Built in my parents Grayslake house using a pretty crappy setup as described in Platform Bed.

This was just the second woodworking project I attempted. Built in my parents Grayslake house using a pretty crappy setup as described in Platform Bed.