Projects

I accidentally found a post on these chairs and had to build one. Named after the British headquarters of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers in India, the Roorkhee chair was developed in the final years of the 19th century as the British military become more mobile following humiliations it suffered in South Africa during

We need an outside table but don;t have a lot of room.  Somebody mentioned table in a bag at some point and I thought that was a great idea. I saw some aluminum ones online and accidentally saw some rough plans for a kids table that I co-opted. We didn’t want to spend a lot

The ceilings in our basement are too short for the door mounted chin-up bars so it was installed in the doorway to Lina’s craft room.   Store bought chin-up bars were too expensive and difficult to install in our weird basement. Then I remembered that I still have the kayak rack I built for the

I suspected that the outside door was deep and would hit the interior sliding panel when closed,  but couldn’t verify this because the car interior was getting worked on while I worked on the door.  The old metal door didn’t have a recess, but it was a piece of crap so who cares. I will have

The original idea was to add drawers, but that seemed like too much work so I added faces with hinges instead.  I should have used two hinges per door, but I didn’t realized how much play was in the hinges until they were installed. I also should have used my HVLP paint gun, but I didn’t

I built this before I knew that Ikea Hacks even existed and that there was a website devoted to them. We needed a better system for the front entrance and purchased the last coat rack that Ikea sold that would fit.  It’s now discontinued.  It was a little awkward because it was too low and

We bought this for the Great Dale but I may use it for burning man and we may also use it for our annual Christmas pilgramage.  

One of our campers is bringing stilts and wanted a place to sit.  So I built these based on last year’s stool designs.