Summer is here and we are in full swing production mode! Over the winter we got quite a few custom orders for furniture. One of my favorite builds was a steel and oak kitchen coffee station. This was my first project involving steel fabrication work for a client, and I was very pleased with the outcome.

I filmed the whole project and posted the video to our YouTube page. You can check out the video below.

We would like to wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend, and please take some time to reflect on those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

So in the last post I promised to follow up with pics of the furniture gifted to us by our neighbors. Mary did a GREAT job designing a plan to convert them into a kitchen island (sold!) and an entertainment center. Take a look…

We ended up doing the entertainment center with Rustoleum’s chalk paint color “aged grey” that we picked up at a local big box. Check it out here if you’re interested. We paid about $16 for a quart which was way below what we had paid for other chalk paints in the past, and I really liked the product at that price point.

We finished the kitchen island by putting it up on a 3/4 piece of plywood with a 1/4″ roundever. We used some prefab table legs on the bottom and a butcher block top. I covered the exposed back with some beadboard we had laying around from an old project. Finished it all off with a few coats of satin white enamel. We sealed the top with a home brew batch of mineral oil and white beeswax. I use it all the time on my butcher blocks and cutting boards. Super easy to make:

1:3 combination of beeswax to mineral oil. Melt them in a double boiler, stir and let cool. That’s it!!

Lastly, exciting news. We are making plans to do a few craft shows this fall, so Mary and I have been kicking it into high gear and cranking out some extra stuff for those. Pretty excited to try out hand at the craft circuit. Stay tuned for pics and a review on our experience!

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Labor Day weekend marks the official end of summer around Long Island. The kids start back to school this week and the beaches will get progressively quieter over the next few weeks. Soon the leaves will turn and we will be heading east for Apple picking.

Autumn has always been my favorite season, something about the crisp cool air invigorates me like no other season. Very excited!

Finished up a couple projects, mostly client projects so we didn’t post a ton of social media shots during the process. We made a pallet wood bar for a friend whom requested a solid dark wood top.

September will be Corey’s second birthday, and Mary is doing a construction/truck themed party for the kids. She asked me to make toolboxes for all the kids as party favors so I spent an afternoon putting these together using lumber from the Lowe’s “cull cart”. If you don’t know what that is, you really need to check it out in the future. Most big box stores will periodically “cull” lumber that doesn’t meet their specs for resale. Issues vary and could include splits, shipping damage, stains, warping and cupping, or just being cut offs. They will sell the lumber for pennies on the dollar, just examine what you’re buying first. This wood was all damaged by a forklift on one end of the stack. The other 7 feet of boards were completely fine.

Lastly, we were given an old dresser and matching desk. We have some plans for them but I don’t want to spoil the surprise. Here they are before we start, stay tuned to see how they turn out.

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