Sandy Patio Set

I always looked at the trapezoidal alcove on our patio and imagined a big table there. After giving it some more thought, I divided it into two tables to make it easier to fit in the basement in the winter, and to make access easier to the center inside seats.

Built from solid Cedar. Many fun meals to come!

Sandy Way Dartboard Frame

My family's place at Squaw used to have a terrible dartboard over the fireplace upstairs -- it was worn down, at the wrong height, in one of those bar-style mini-cabinets with doors.

I finally got around to tearing that down and replacing it with a new board from New Zealand company DMI darts. It plays really well, and has a super skinny "spider" (metal frame that divides the scoring regions). Highly recommended.

The frame is made of vertical-grain Douglas Fir, with a water based dark brown stain. The carved letters are the natural color of the fir.

The chalkboard is genuine slate that used to hang in a San Francisco School District classroom. I found it at a spot in SF called Andreas Stone & Marble, some old Italian guys who took down a bunch of schoolroom chalkboards and put in new white boards around the city. I like the thought that generations of people (many older than me) learned from that stone.

More importantly, this project nearly used up the enormous trove of wine corks that people have been giving me for the past few years (since I started making trivets). Not sure how many are there in total ... maybe sometime we're snowed in with a blizzard we can count them.

I used the same method I used on the dartboard in my SF pad ... scroll down to see that one.

Sandy Way TV cabinet

Work has concluded on the TV cabinet, besides the top. Two storey built-in, knotty pine ply and solid wood with an antique wax finish.



Ski movie DVD collection has found a permanent home:



Big thanks and love always to my mom, for all her hard work and vision.

Boot rack

The assorted roommates' collection of wet boots, shoes, gloves etc. have finally found a home. I built a rack from brown stained vertical-grain Douglas Fir (to match the rest of the room's color scheme).



The shelves are slanted so that the snow melt drips off them and onto a track on the bottom shelf, that diverts the puddle through a hole and into a pan under the rack. Booya.