furniture projects
We mill a big red oak tree into slabs and dimensional material to be turned into a huge farmhouse table with benches!
What do you get when you mix 100 year old barn wood, a CNC, and epoxy? A pretty cool farmhouse table!
We mill a big red oak tree into slabs and dimensional material to be turned into a huge farmhouse table with benches!
What do you get when you mix 100 year old barn wood, a CNC, and epoxy? A pretty cool farmhouse table!
You can easily get the look of breadboards without spending a lot of effort doing time consuming joinery, without ignoring wood movement! Here's one approach I take when doing breadboards but speed is important.
This desk was built for a couple who work from home together together and needed a ton of space for all their equipment and lots of storage! But want something minimalist and as sleek as possible.. for being 10' x 8'.
We built 5 super unique river tables in one week for Cartridge Brewing, a new brew pub opening in Cincinnati at the end of October 2020! These tables feature epoxy rivers between ash slabs, steel bases, and concrete waterfalls featuring logos!
This Nakashima inspired table was my hardest build to date, but I'm really proud of how it came out! This was built for the Big Build Off and you can find that series below, this single video covers the entire build! If you're interested in plans...
The trouble with restoring furniture is getting the new paint to adhere well and not start bubbling, peeling, or flaking off.. or have old stains bleed through. With the proper preparation, those issues won't happen and you'll have a like new piece of furniture that'll stay looking good for a long time!
The Big Build Off is a competition hosted by the Instagram Builder’s Challenge that I had the privilege of being invited to participate in! The challenge is to build a dining table and donate it to a family in need. I’m building a Nakashima inspired cherry and walnut dining table.
This is an epoxy coffee table with live edge walnut slabs, blue epoxy resin, a steel base, and multicolor LEDs! It was a lot of fun and I love the result, especially how the LEDs shine through the epoxy and silhouette the walnut slabs if the lights are dim.
This video is full of tips to speed up your builds! I highlight time saving tips to woodwork faster while I built a triangular olive slab table at Lakeside Woodwork's shop. This was a collab with Bruce Ulrich and he built another table from the same slab with different features and even more tips on how to woodwork faster!
My kids love this bunk bed set I made them because it looks like a fire truck and has lots of built in storage, my wife loves the bunk bed because of all the storage! It has a costume closet, 10 drawers, and storage for all of their books.
The simple dining bench is set apart by its wedged mortise and tenon joinery that become a highlight by the contrasting maple and cherry wood.
This DIY industrial kitchen island has it all! A maple butcher block top, stained shou sugi ban shelves that pull out, a drawer for baking sheets, and casters to easily move around!
Check out how I made the ultimate DIY lego table. The LEGO creation inserts make this table uniquely fantastic. It also has a flip top with LEGO plates on one side and a normal top on the other.
I started working on this post oak farmhouse table about 6 years ago and made several unfortunate mistakes. Today is the day to fix those and finally get this project (my first ever furniture project) finished.
Looking for a craft table that inspires you? This shows how to build a craft table that can be decorated with whatever gets your creative juices flowing. We went with a seascape, but you could do whatever inspires you.
I had some worn chairs that were ready for a make over. This time I go over how I stripped, re-finished, repaired, wove a new seat from webbing, and generally brought new life to an old chair!
This time I show how to make a modern chair by sprucing up some Eames style molded chairs with some new walnut mid century modern bases!
This time I show how to make a simple modern dining table. This elegant table has a cherry top riding on an X shaped walnut base featuring brass pins!
This time I make a Murphy bed with a stay level desk! The desk turns the room into a true multifunction space, and with the stay level feature I don't have to clear it off before pulling the bed down. I also flanked the bed with cabinets and shelves for lots of storage!
Here's how I made my wife's maker center with a sewing table and craft table. The sewing table features cubbies and a recess so the sewing machine sits flush with the top of table, and the standing height craft table has tons of storage!
I can't believe how pretty these sycamore slabs were and had much fun I had learning how to join slabs on a curve.
You don't need many tools to make a slab table like this. You could do it with just a sander, drill, jigsaw, and chisels!I use my circular saw, router, and bandsaw because I have them, but they can be substituted with the other tools.
Need a quick way to make stylish bookshelves? This is a good one. The best part is this can all be made from construction lumber from a big box store. And if you own a table saw, you can save some cash by ripping everything out of 2x6s.
This piano was destined for the trash, but I picked it up and turned it into a bar with pull storage!
How I made our new coffee bar/buffet, dining table, and dining chairs!