1919 living room set

The front room at my house used to be the TV room. At some point Noble and I cooked up a scheme to redesign the "bar room" as the living room, and turn the front room into an office / sitting room.

I built two desks out of Red Oak with a thin stripe of American Walnut trim:



The window desk:



The wall desk:



Then we hooked up the sitting area with a coffee table and matching end table. The end table houses electronic components that drive a projector for big screen action.

The end table has the material scheme flipped -- walnut with red oak trim:



Same with the coffee table:



Projector ledge:



Projection:



The coup de grace was the idea to hang the projector over a mirror. This way people sitting across the coffee table from the projector can still see the TV image in the mirror:



Of course, all the text is inverted ... what can ya do?

Ski tracks coffee table

The dining room table needed a little brother. Partially thanks to leftover material, and partially thanks to renewed inspiration I decided to build a coffee table to match the piece in the dining room.



The material scheme is inverted, meaning the top is solid teak with an inlay of twin red oak stripes. The piece in between is a darker piece of teak.



The ski tracks were modeled in Pro/E, 3D printed as templates, and cut on a router.



This was the most challenging thing I have ever built, primarily because that shape requires the router cut across the grain, on both sides of a narrow piece ... it loves to grab and shred your part. I had to cut 6 red oak pieces before I got these two.

1919 Dartboard

After watching our 1880s-vintage drywall get chewed up by dozens of wayward dart strikes, I decided to do something. After making a few trivets, the cork collection had been steadily growing, and I did a little math and realized that I could surround both our dartboard and a miniature white board I picked up at Office Depot.



Fun house rule: if you hit a cork, you have to take a shot (usually, whiskey).