Woodworking and Home Decor Projects

One of my niece's recently got married to a wonderful guy. I was trying to decide on something small, but nice, that we could make for them as a wedding present. We decided to make them a cross to hang in their new home together. Made from walnut, curly maple, and...

Finally, cutting boards! Seriously, I sort of love making cutting boards, even more when they are for friends. This stack of cutting boards is for a friend mine and I was able to use my laser engraver to burn his logo into the back of the boards along with my logo....

I'm slowly getting into building more and more useful furniture projects. This project is actually for my granddaughter and is her first 'big girl' bed. I started with some great looking v-notch (tongue and groove) pine boards that I get from a local company. I love...

We've been pushing hard recently to finish the basement into the game room, relaxing area that we've always planned on it being. Once we got the floor finished and the walls painted I hung the far too small TV and realized that little things like the satellite...

I recently decided that I needed to make some more small scale projects, both to do them because they are sort of traditional projects and because it can be easier to sell a $45 serving tray than a $3,000 table or desk. These were also a good way to start getting my...

You see these things all over Pinterest, cast iron pipe room fixtures for towel racks, lighting, random things to hit your head on, and so on. My office is one of those extremely eclectic places that is part fishing lodge, part steampunk submarine, part comic book...

I built this countertop out hard maple for a client. I struggled a bit with this one because the boards were cut very close to the final length before they even got to me. Add to that the client did not want to see any bow ties in the top to help limit any future...

It was time for a new workbench out in the shop. Instead of slapping something together in a couple of hours and moving on, I decided this would be a good time to continue to improve my skills at laying out mortise and tenons and building without the use of screws. I...

Recently one of my neighbors finished building his house. Unfortunately for him, he changed his mind about the doors he wanted to use after all the framing was done and sheetrock hung. This left him with door openings that no standard door would cover so...