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Foldable outdoor table
I haven’t been doing a lot of woodworking lately so I needed a quick project to get back into building mode again. So I decided to do the forbidden: build a piece out of construction lumber. This project is a foldable table for outdoor use with a height of 60cm (sofa table height) and is…
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Trellis For Climbing Rose
I’ve been keeping some small left over transport battens around for a while now, and it turns out they were made from Alder. At the same time we needed some support for a climbing rose we’ve planted next to our pergola. So to put the battens to use I made a small trellis for it…
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Storage Box
A friend of mine had a couple of off-cuts from some shelves that was just laying around. Since I’ve just been building some stools from the Dania series of furniture, I knew about a storage box in the same series that could be a good project to build from the off-cuts. I decided to make…
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Fence Gate
This was a fairly quick project where I built a fence gate, trying to match the existing pattern of the battens. I had a time constraint of a few hours and had to move my tools to a new location. The table saw was the main tool for this job, and the materials used were…
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Copycat Mini Stool
I made some mistakes with the previous stool, related to how I used the Domino and how I messed up shaping the angles, so I wanted to try again with my new learnings. It’s fascinating how the complexity grows as soon as you transition from box shapes into three dimensional tapers. There is a smaller…
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Copycat Stool
I needed a handy stool to be able to conveniently reach stuff higher up around the house. A design that I like is the Dania Step Ladder Stool in the Skagerak collection by Fritz Hansen, and if it wasn’t for my interest in woodworking I’d probably buy it! This one was a really fun challenge…
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Bar Stools
We needed two bar stools for a kitchen island and because I still have plenty of oak left I decided to make two simple stools from what was originally 45×28 mm battens. For this project I wanted to try something new so I made a slightly curved seat by gluing together three 4mm plywood sheets,…
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House Detail
Due to some recent leakage we’re currently having the roof of our house replaced. While inspecting some areas one the sc. Frontispiece I noticed that there seemed to be a piece missing at the ridge of the roof. There were existing cutouts for some form of decorative piece so I decided to try and re-create…
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Plate Rack
This plate rack I designed by taking inspiration from both old and new models of the Internet. Clean straight lines for the most part, but then with some rounded profiles to finish the edges on the sides, plus a small profile on the plate support stretchers to spice it up a little. I made this…
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Pencil Box
I wanted to do a small project where I could somehow involve my daughter, without risking her life. Using a leftover piece of oak I milled five pieces that would fit together using small rabbet joints. My daughter was responsible for putting glue on the pieces and later for applying the finishing oil
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Mass Producing
Since I still have plenty of oak laying around and the kids garden chair I recently made makes a pretty good present for people with kids, I decided to make two more for some close friend. I’m pretty happy about the fact that I managed to make both of new ones pretty much exactly the…
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Less Cheap Garden Bench
I was very happy with how my cheap garden bench design turned out: robust and sturdy but with a more sleek appearance. A friend just bought a house so I decided to make another one as a house warming gift. However I’d feel bad about giving something away that is made of construction lumber, so…
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Cheap garden bench
Can you build nice outdoor furniture from construction lumber? Most examples online says otherwise, but I decided to give it a shot. For less than $20 I bought spruce lumber in with dimensions 45x45mm and 25x48mm and got to work. I spent a fair amount of time trying to calculate the angles and lengths of…
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Kids Garden Chair mk.2
Last year, I made a foldable kid size garden chair, out of construction lumber. Although it looked pretty nice, due to the softness of the spruce, the leg locking mechanism has already started to splinter and wear. Back then I promised myself I’d make another one, so this year I made one from oak, and…
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School Bench
This is by far my biggest project yet, and it got me to respect, even more, exactly how much work there is involved to create a piece of furniture from start to finish. Big thanks to Daniel at Sliparebackens Finsnickeri for invaluable tips and help! Since the desk was going to be junior sized I…
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Coat Hook Shelf
This was a quick project I made as practice for an upcoming project. Small coat hook shelf with a design inspired by a classic Swedish bookshelf. The main challenge here was to get a tight fit between the groove on the wall mount and the shelf itself. After a few days I noticed that the…
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Shelf Bracket
One off shelf bracket made from oak. The two pieces are joined together by a domino, and I drew and cut the contour by freehand using the bandsaw. Finally, I rounded it off with a 3mm round over bit on the router table.
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Toy Storage
I had a sheet of semi-nice pine plywood, so I figured I could use it to re-create an IKEA model for toy storage. It’s surprisingly tricky to get everything perfectly square with a track saw, so a framing square came in handy. For cutting the grooves I used my router table with a 16mm straight…
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Doll House Bookshelf
Small bookshelf, which resembles/doubles as a doll house, inspired by an existing model. The challenge here was to find angles for the roof that looked nice, and then cutting the pieces to the right lengths and angles. In order to make it look a bit more polished and less edgy I decided to chamfer the…
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Small Storage Shelf
Quick and cheap storage shelf, using construction lumber and pre-made boards that just needed to be sanded and cut to length. To make it look a bit more interesting I chamfered all the edges. This project reminded me that I need to get more clamps!
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‘Tis the Season
Inspired by a couple of YouTube clips and this article I decided to do a quick project creating a Christmas star out of some scrap spruce I had lying around. The only tools needed were a miter saw and a pin nailer.
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Kitchen Drawer Organizer, no.2
Slightly unhappy with my mistakes on the previous organizer, I decided to make another one. I didn’t have any beech left, so this one I made of alder, which is substantially softer (softer than pine) which posed new challenges. This time I used a white hard wax oil as finish. In the end it turned…
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Small Serving tray
Inspired by Steve Ramsey (woodworking for mere mortals), I decided to build a small serving tray for collecting all the cruft we keep on our dining table. I used alder for the sides and 4mm B-grade pine plywood for the bottom. The main challenge in this project was to properly cut out the handle with…
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Kitchen Drawer organizer
Tired of plastic organizers I wanted to make a nice one out of wood. After measuring and making a quick Sketchup drawing I started milling some boards out of beech. For this project I wanted to practice making box joints, and my general router table skills. I made some stupid mistakes in this project, like…
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Classic Garden Chair, kid size
This summer I wanted to create a garden chair for our daughter, and I decided to copy a foldable Swedish classic. I didn’t have any drawings, so I had to come up with all the measurements freehand and by eyeballing pictures of the Internet. The chair posed some fun challenges with arced legs and seating…
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Basement Hatch
Our access hatch for the basement was falling apart so felt inclined to make a new one. A pretty simple design made of construction lumber with pre made tongues and grooves for fitting the boards together
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My First Project
I made this baby size chair based on a garden sofa design I liked. The challenge was the tapered legs and the angled back support, but because the chair is so small, I was able to do most work on the mitre saw. If I were to redo this project I’d probably use different joinery…