Furniture with the markings of a past life…
I got this lumber from a recycle lumber yard. They pulled it from an old bank building in Sacramento, built around the 1930's.
I found one really weather beaten plank which I think might have been from the building's facade. I chose this plank to be...
I had a lot of plywood scraps from my last project and decided to build this table.
The top is made from left over veneer.
It took about a pint of glue to put it together and a lot of shaping and sanding.
http://designagainstthegrain.com
I have a client who loves the classic fir grain from old lumber.
He said "the more nail holes , the better".
I also made two small cutouts with doors for their cell phone chargers and grain matched the doors.
I used plywood to build the base and put a drawer in each side.