Showing posts with label home-made blanket box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home-made blanket box. Show all posts
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Home-made blanket box
This is what my husband has been working on for several weeks now, and it has cost him virtually nothing apart from £10 to have the fretwork straps on the top cut out. The wood - it's made from solid oak - came from old bed ends which had been dumped at our local auction as they wouldn't sell. I think he's done a wonderful job on it and it looks just right on our top landing.
Fixing battens to hold the base of the chest.
Here it is being sanded at an earlier stage of creation. The design for the apron along the front was traced from a similar piece of furniture we have.
The pattern for these came from half of a very old and beautiful cast iron hinge he got from a junk place and he still has that hinge to use on another project.
One of my husband's old Windsor chairs keeps it company.
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