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New Uses for Old Wood Part 2

September 26, 2021 by clove Leave a Comment

We continue to pick away at the beautiful fir reclaimed from our old house. And by we, I mean that I periodically check in on the “things to finish” list and Matt does the actual picking away. What can I say, we manage to our strengths. There would be about as much sense in me constructing things out of wood as there would be in Matt doing our taxes.

This installment has Matt making a gravity defying bunk bed for our daughter and finishing up the kitchen cabinets. I’d gotten used to pulling kitchen drawers open by the plywood box. Entirely functional, right? Then they got fronts and handles and it was a small revelation: hey that looks good and these handle thingees work pretty well!

bunk bed taking shape
joint detail
of course, before installing the bunk bed, the walls had to be decorated
and the bed takes flight! admittedly I still occasionally imagine catastrophic structural collapse, but at least we’d be falling on a mattress right?
kitchen cabinets!

If you missed the first installment of New Uses for Old Wood, you can find it here.

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Stretch Developer is written by Christy Love. In partnership with my husband Matt, we are challenging ourselves to create the kind of homes we want to live in and see more of in our community. Home is the incredible Victoria, BC, Canada.

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