Chuck's Projects

This is a collection of furniture that I made for one of our guest bedrooms (aka, the sewing room). The room also doubles as my wife's sewing room. It includes a nightstand, headboard for the bed, bookcase, sewing table and sewing cabinet. The headboard is my second attempt. The first one was made of 3" wide vertical red oak pieces with tongue & groove and 6" wide horizontal pieces across the top and bottom. Unfortunately the horizontal and vertical pieces did not expand and contract at the same rate and the result was that the top horizontal piece would separate from the end post on one side of the headboard. It was a learning experience for me. The bookcase was designed and made to my wife's specs. She said "I'd like a bookcase in this corner and it needs to be about this size". That's one advantage to making your own furniture.

Sewing Room Nightstand

Sewing Room Bookshelf

Sewing Room Headboard

Sewing Room Dresser

Sewing Room Sewing Thread Box

After finishing the guest bedroom, I made my way over to the living room. Here are photos of the end tables, lamps, coffee table and entertainment center that I made over two winters. We spent a long time looking for lamps for our end tables. One of our requirements was that they be tall enough to shed useful light for reading. On our vacation to the Northeast in Octber, 2002 we saw a lamp design that looked like it could fit our needs. It's a simple but functional design. The center vertical piece slides in rabbets in the vertical side pieces. A small piece of dowel and a few holes make the height adjustable

Living Room End Table (one of two)	Living Room Table Lamp (one of two)	Living Room Coffee Table	Living Room Entertainment Center	Living Room Entertainment Center

One of my major projects during the summer of 2003 was tiling the floor on our screen porch.

Tile on our Screen Porch Summer, 2003	Tile on our Screen Porch Summer, 2003	Tile on our Screen Porch Summer, 2003

Over the winter of 2004/2005, I made a new bedroom set for our bedrooom. The set includes a bookcase headboard, 2 nightstands, a chest of drawers, a dresser and a mirror. The doors on either side of the headboard flip down.

Master Bedroom Headboard

Master Bedroom Chest of Drawers

Master Bedroom Nancy's Nightstand

Master Bedroom Dresser & Mirror

Here's a collection of other woodworking projects that I completed. The tall cabinet was made to match the style of the cabinets that we already had above our washer/dryer in the laundry room. The framed poster is of our younger son, Daniel. When we were able to get the poster, I made a frame for it and hung it in my workshop. The frame with the photo collage shows my wife and I having fun whitewater kayaking. Each photo is 8"x10". The jewelry box was made of cherry. It has a removable lid and a tray that fits inside so there are 2 levels for storage. I made 2 and gave them to our daughters-in-law for Christmas, 2002. The cabinet for the coffee makers and the desk are my projects from the winter of 2005/2006 and the garden bench is a late Christmas 2006 present for my son, Charles.

Adirondack Chair	Laundry Room Storage Cabinet	Post of Dan (in my workshop)	Computer Room Photo Collage
Jewelry Box (made of Cherry)	Dining Room Coffee Stand	Computer Room Desk	Garden Bench Made for Charles

My woodworking projects for the winter of 2007/2008 included making 2 tables for our house and new bases for 4 tables for Charles & Kellie. Our tables included a folding table for our laptop computer in the living room and an end table for next to the recliner in our computer bedroom. It's really nice to have a wireless router and be able to use the laptop in the same rooom with our pellet stove.

Living Room Folding Table	Living Room Folding Table	Living Room Small End Table

Table Base for Charles & Kellie

Table Base for Charles & Kellie

Table Base for Charles & Kellie

Table Base for Charles & Kellie

I took some time off from woodworking in 2009. In 2010, we did some remodeling in our laundry room. That's when I built a new cabinet for above our washer/dryer and a cabinet to hold the sink that replaced our laundry tub. At the same time, I installed some wall tiles behind and next to the sink/cabinet. I also made two picture frames to hold multiple photos of our granddaughters.

Laundry Room Wall Cabinet

Laundry Room Sink Cabinet

Master Bedroom Picture Frame

Master Bedroom Picture Frame

My projects for 2011 included building new wall cabinets and a setup for hanging some hand tools behind my workbench. I also tiled the floor in our second (hall) bathroom. During the summer, I re-sided our storage shed, replacing the old siding with particle board and vinyl siding. (That was my first venture into vinyl siding.)

Workshop Wall Cabinets	Workshop Wall Cabinets	Workshop Tool Hanging System
Hall Bathroom Floor Tile	Hall Bathroom Floor Tile	New Siding on our Shed

During the summer of 2012 we had had new countertops installed in our kitchen. Then, during the winter of 2012/2013 we installed a tile backsplash. The hardest part of the backsplash project was moving all of the electrical boxes down about 4" so they would not disrupt the pattern with the diamond-shaped tiles.

Kitchen Connter Tops	Kitchen Connter Tops	Kitchen Backsplash
Kitchen Backsplash	Kitchen Backsplash	Kitchen Backsplash

Since 2013, my woodworking projects have dimished. Over the winter of 2013/2014, I decided to replace the bookcase in our office (we had outgrown the old one). In 2020, I made two wooden tables to be used on our newly enclosed back porch. (The cats love them as the are just the right height to sit or lay down and watch the birds and other wildlife.)

Bookcase

Porch Tables