It seems as though there is no end to the things that can be built around here! Even as the house inches towards the finish line, Brian is tackling new projects and acquiring new skills...and new tools, of course, as well. He already started his woodworking career with the table for the kitchen banquette; now he's gone ahead and built a custom dining table for the formal dining room. He took the old 2 x 8 rafters from the old roof and repurposed them for a table. Off to the pictures!
First - a before and after of the basement. Using and/or discarding a lot of the leftover wood has made a huge difference in space and organization.
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| The before picture - not a lot of room to move around here |
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| And the after - so nice and clean now! |
And moving onto the table construction. The wood was decently straight but in order to build the table well, we needed a new tool - a jointer.
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| Hello jointer! We think you'll be very happy here |
Now onto working with the wood:
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| This is not ready to be a table yet |
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| But skipping ahead many, many steps, this is starting to look like a table. Here, the wood is glued and clamped together to let it set |
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| Skipping over even more steps, now cut to size and with end pieces attached |
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| Seeing how it fits with sawhorses as legs before we finish it with three coats of a matte finish poly. |
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| Now starting work on the real legs. These are built from wood and primed for painting |
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| Painted and working on spacing. As you can see, Brian initially planned to use three legs but once we got the table in place and set the chairs next to it, it became clear that three wasn't great for chair spacing. So we experimented a bit and decided on this.... |
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| Clean, simple, and chair-spacing friendly |
And done!!
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| Ready for a dinner party! |
