We recently decided that it would be nice to have a formal dining room for when we have more than five guests over at the house. After looking around for dining tables such as the Lugano Dining Table, we loved the design but were put off by the $500 price tag. This seemed like the perfect opportunity to take on a new project. So after buying a $40 used table saw and a plunge router, I set out to make a table of our own.
One of the best things about making furniture is that you can customize it to your heart’s content. The let us make a table that really fits the room well and that can sit 8-10 people.
The total dimensions: 84”Lx40”W. Top is stained birch, legs are carefully cut and glue-laminated 2x6 KD fir. The total price tag (including the purchase of tools) came out to $250. What a fun project!
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Spring is in the air and JP is busy preparing a garden with some veggie starts and deer fence. We have 3 month old chicks waiting to move into their new deluxe chicken coop that JP also built. We’ll have to teach our little one how to tend to the soil from an early age.
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My belly is starting to have that watermelon-like roundness at 30 weeks. Everything is progressing extremely well and we are now in the home stretch. So excited to meet our baby in early July!
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Sleeping with the enemy. (Taken with instagram)
Our house was recently featured in the Register Guard Home and Garden section. The story did a great job of describing our design process as well as translating our feelings about the whole experience. Read the article here.
Article by Joel Gorthy and images by Collin Andrew
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Fresh threads for the floor!
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More photos from last weekend back at the homestead. A dose of sun is never expected but always welcome this time of the year. Here we have 1) repose after lunch, 2) a docile cat getting a bath after romping around in the poison oak brambles (presumably getting some noxious oil in her fur, therefore necessitating a bath), 3) John getting old, 4) a shot from a great new walk and piece of land that the city has opened to the public at the top of our hill.
Photos by Jay Aldrich
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After nine weeks of working and commuting in Portland for the Digital Arts BFA program, it is good to return HOME. It’s becoming a place that I want to return to, with a person (or two) whom I look forward to sharing it with. Here, sun is setting in early March. Spring is near - everything around here is getting warmer in color. Abby’s father Jay came to visit from Nevada last weekend and he got this great shot.
(Photo by Jay Aldrich)
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Nothing compares to the beauty of snow-kissed trees on a chilly morning. I do love the snow, but I am yearning for Spring blossoms.
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Decorative stairway shelves
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