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.

My first woodworking project! Was preparing to move out of my parents house and decided to build a bed instead of buy to save some money. Writing this in 9/9/2023.