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Woodworking projects and plans
My family of 5 spends a LOT of time around the kitchen table. 🤗 Making plans for a farmhouse kitchen table for this special space in our home and building that table had been on my to do list for a long time. I finally [read more …]
Up until the 2020 COVID pandemic, both my wife and I were working full time. And our twin girls were being sent to daycare (pre-K). As the pandemic dragged on without end in sight, we made 3 major changes to our family: We added a [read more …]
My wife and I were becoming increasingly frustrated with the dining furniture in our kitchen. The kitchen chairs especially were old and falling apart. They were also hard to clean because of the upholstery which trapped food crumbs that our young kids spill all the [read more …]
My wife loves to grow vegetables in our backyard. As a dutiful husband, I had built her raised vegetable garden beds as described in this post. But the only problem is that the critters in our backyard, including insects, lizards, squirrels, and bunnies just don’t [read more …]
My wife wanted to plant some vegetables in the spring of 2019. Well, you can guess what that means for me. Yep, a honey do project. 😀 I knew going into the project that this would be fairly straightforward, given I had already completed relatively [read more …]
My wife and I were ecstatic to find out in early 2020 that we were going to have a 3rd child! New addition to the family meant we needed an extra, 4th bedroom to accommodate guests who would stay with us after the baby was [read more …]
My wife and I both have fond memories of playing in a sandbox growing up. Well, for me it was just a huge pile of sand the contractors left behind after building my parents house, but whatever. 😏 We definitely wanted to our children to [read more …]
This playset is one of my most favorite woodworking projects! Our kids have enjoyed it for years. It has also been a major attraction in our backyard for our visiting friends and families. A high-quality playset (with swings, slide, and climbing wall) will cost you [read more …]
I was making a work station for my miter saw, and wanted the station to have a stop block sliding along a t-track. T-tracks are typically inserted into the a straight “groove” or “channel”, called dado, cut into the top surface wood on a miter [read more …]
After I built a temporary guest room in our house for the arrival of our 3rd baby, we decided to install a king-size bed in that room. Well, why stop at building the room when you can build a bed for that room too, I [read more …]