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Vintage-style Icebox Cabinet Solid Mahogany console side table built in the style of an early 1920’s icebox cabinet. Iceboxes were used as a means of refrigerating food items before the invention of the electric refrigerator. A two-door design featuring book-matched surfaces on the doors, top, and back, as well as continuous grain across the doors. […]
When Modern Combines with Rustic, a Tale of Two Tables To build this pair of modern meets rustic farmhouse tables, I used construction-grade fir lumber (2×4’s, 2×6’s and 4×4’s) I picked up from my local home center which I planed smooth and cut off the rounded-over edges. This gave me squared stock which produced tight […]
Your home decor needs some chaos, this scrap wood end grain end table will do just that A direct contradiction to any home decor, this table is chaotic and obnoxious – yet its construction was resourceful, having repurposed leftover scrap material into a charming piece of furniture. The multiple colors and unique grains of the […]
Cozy up to the fire with this modern rustic Catalpa and Mahogany bench A mixture of modern and live edge rustic combines for a stunning and functional piece. Starting with a live edge slab of Catalpa, I shaped both long edges of this 4 3/8″ thick slab to a more comfortable profile. Heavy cracks in the piece […]