It is essential to match your furnishings to your cat.
I’ve been working on building this cabinet for a month or two off and on. It marks a weird shift in my way of doing things. I started completely without a plan and simply “composed” the cabinet as I went from hard maple and maple plywood. I got tired of feeling inadequate as a woodworker, and decided that it might be best to sort of “free write” a project with low stakes. It isn’t perfect; it’s simply a countertop to fold clothes on in the basement though, not “fine woodworking.” A sort of prequel to the sort of thing I’d like to build in the future.
After I started the project, I was reading Krenov and noticed that he actually recommended kitchen cabinets as a good starter project for furniture builders. As we often say around the house, “yeah, I meant to do that.”
Stupendous. And what a great space. I am slowly gathering the sense that in America the “basement” is an extremely important part of life. I must try and find out more about it. Do you have attics (generally speaking) as well, I wonder.
My grandfather used to work wood. He apparently once started building a boat called “The eleven thousand virgins of Cologne”. He didn’t finish it.
I’ve never had a usable attic (yet, anyway– I may saw through into this one). This is my first basement.
It depends on what part of America you ask about. In Arkansas, the soil is hard clay and rock so basements are pretty rare– though they would be nice, with the tornados and all. In California, nobody bothers with them because there is no need. In Minnesota, they were pretty common and useful. It’s warmer under ground. Same story in New York, I think.
Boats wouldn’t be a good project for me, because I’d have to sail off by myself. Krista would be too afraid of the sea or lake monsters.