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To me, no room is complete without at least a few books at hand. But not every room needs or has the wall space for an actual bookcase. After seeing a free-standing book “tree” used as a promotional display in a bookshop, I set about designing one that would look good in a residential setting.

T’is the season to break out the holiday décor and lay in a supply of holiday treats. This year, why not add to your celebrations with a classic: a miniature sleigh sized to deliver a party’s worth of chocolates? 

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For the last few years, the “table” between my couch and fireplace has been an old leather steamer trunk. A holdover from my bachelor days, it was too bulky for our small parlor, and obscured our view of the fireplace. It was time for something new. In its stead, I designed and built this minimalist, mid-century inspired table.

As a woodworker, it’s tough to buy pre-made picture frames or shell out big bucks at the custom-framing shop—especially when you have so much nice wood lying around.

Soap finish, a shop-made polish with a long history of use in Europe, is becoming increasingly popular among furniture makers here in the States.

Last May, we had the good fortune of teaching a chairmaking class together at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, VT. As we were putting the class together, we knew we wanted a chair that was: comfortable, contemporary yet classic, and relatively easy to build for woodworkers with limited experience.

This tealight holder is a fun and inexpensive project, and makes a perfect gift for a friend or relative. Its highlight is the wonderful effect of flickering light through bands of translucent colored epoxy.

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Every woodworker faces that perennial question of what to do with all those wood scraps too small for most projects but just a bit too large for the burn bin.