A couple of small projects to help organize the kitchen. We’ve got a shelf that adds additional mug storage capacity, and a little rack for storing attachments for the stand mixer.

I made a sign for Allison’s Garden, which my mom maintains in memory of our daughter Allison Grace. Printed out the lettering and glued onto the surface. Followed the edges using a router with a v-groove bit. Filled the void with epoxy died black. Mounted to steel legs, and finished with epoxy.

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.