reclaimed wood construction

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!

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?

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

It’s been fun to document the many new uses for the old house wood that Matt and the Interactive crew rescued from the old house. There’s still a lot left and some furniture/cabinet making still to be done, but we won’t come close to using it all. If you know anyone looking for 26′ long rough cut fir 2x10s and 6x6s, let me know.

Here’s where it all started:

New Uses for Old Wood Part 2

New Uses for Old Wood Part 1

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