Woodworking Projects 3
A warm welcome to all the wood working visitors. Well you have found
projects page 3 of my Wood Furniture and
Country Decorating site.
Seems like it's never ending designing and manufacturing wood furniture
and Countryware items. Designing Country Furniture is like that! You
just never know what is on the next agenda or around the next corner. I
regularly receive emails from fellow wood working people and it always
amazes me on many of the ideas that are flung around. I suppose that's
why we are still building our favourite wood products and enjoying what
life presents us.
18th August 2003
I am currently working on a design for a Timber BBQ caddy. The request
originated from one of my outlets, Boatshed Quilting at Lakes Entrance.
The caddy will be made to fit all the usual barbeque equipment such as
knives, forks, spoons, salt & pepper, sauce bottle, serviettes, plates
and other items that will fit. Current plan is to have a central handle
and compartment areas for utensils. The BBQ caddy will become part of my
product line; hence templates will be taken to help with manufacturing
down the line. A great little wood working project!
Photo added 25th
August 2003
28th September 2003
Sometimes being alert helps! I accessed some (6) display tables that
were being replaced by a local store. Tables were approximately 900mm
high with the top having an 800mm diameter. All were in perfect order
and were made of MDF material. With a little imagination I decided to
lower them to a height of 420mm and shaped the leg design to give a
better dimension and look. Timber was bare, so it was quite simple to
spruce them up with a paint scheme. I decided to place a base coat of
‘Dulux Camomile Cream’ (chip 125), followed by ‘Colour Effects Dynasty’
which was then sponged off. The end effect was a beige colour which
would suit a majority of home or Country Decorating themes. This table
would look great as a central room feature that could be decorated to
suit.
2nd October 2003
Folding screen was constructed using 60mm x 18mm hardwood. Hardwood was
used because of its rigidity and being ‘straight’. Job request was for
no wooden securing bars to be fitted across the uprights except the top
and bottom bars. Client wanted the full view of the cloth runners from
top to bottom. The material insert was purchased through “Freedom
Furniture” and are generally known as table runners. The screen is
approximately 2.1mt high and the width of each partition is
approximately 400mm. The table in front of the screen has a matching
cloth “table runner” on top, enabling each piece of furniture to
compliment each other.
4th November 2003
Bed head & foot
Order via Bairnsdale Antiques for Jo P. This order was to be an exact
version of one I made over 12 months ago. A single mattress and base is
simply attached to the bed posts (attachments not in photo). Standing at
the foot end of the bed enables you to visually sight the hearts. With
both beds sitting side by side in the one room and suitably decorated,
they looked absolutely fabulous and fitted in perfect with the Country
Decorating theme.
27th November 2003
Vegetable Storage Unit
This vegetable storage unit originated via a customer request at one of
my stockists. As with all my Country Furniture line, the construction
was finished so as the item was seen as “a piece of furniture”, enabling
it to fit in any household. The unit stands approximately 570mm high by
270mm in depth. This item now becomes one of my standard product lines
as item 32. A popular piece of my Wood Furniture line.
Item 93
Business Card Holder: I came across this little beauty in my travels.
(actually enjoying a red wine with one of my neighbours) :-} It was a
simple idea with round cylinder pieces of wood rolling down into a
central piece of base timber. Rather than make the Business Card Holder
out of pine, I decided to manufacture out of Australian Red Gum. The end
result was an exciting piece of furniture that would make a great little
gift item for that business person. No sooner had I made this item,
several Business Card Holders were sold with the first one initially
going to the USA.
Well that's page 3 of my Wood Furniture selections. Once again if any wood working followers are out there, feel free to build any of my Country Decorating range.