Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever!
I have been working on this:
This will be a queen size bed for Dahlia. Jemma will get Dahlia's bed and finally be able to stop sleeping in a crib. --it is actually more like a small day-bed since we took the side off a couple of years ago--but still, she should have a real bed.
Bed design © David Pecchia January 2008
Between shoveling snow this weekend and setting up a Christmas tree, I made
this.
Out of this:
Yes, I could have bought a dowel from the hardware store, but where is the fun in that?
Saturday, I applied the last coat of shellac, put on the knobs (which Jemma picked-out), figured out how to stop the drawers from accidentally being pulled all the way out and hauled the thing up from the basement. Jemma spent the night at her grandparent's so she didn't see it until this morning. She was out of her mind with excitement!
I didn't get around to taking a picture until right before bedtime, so she had calmed-down quite a bit by then.
My view upon seeing it in the wood: Theirs features better workmanship than I can do. OTOH, I spent about $1000 on the wood and hardware and theirs is about 15K. So, there is that.
Their rocking chairs are unbelievable and worth every penny of the $1400 or so that they cost. Someday I will have one. That is a life goal.
One thing I did differently from Thomas Moser is that I used a lighter wood for the back. It gives a nice contrast to the cherry in the front and it provides more light so that you can see the items that are in or on the piece.
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