Tag: Modern
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Two-Tone Wood Succulent Planters: A Small Scrap-Wood Project
Not every project in the shop needs a full build sequence to be worth sharing. This one started as a way to use up small hardwood offcuts, cutoffs too short for anything structural but too nice to throw in the scrap bin, and turned into a small batch of two-tone planter blocks sized for succulents.…
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DIY Industrial Pipe Desk Lamp with an Adjustable Arm
A Small Desk Lamp Built From Black Pipe Fittings This is a compact desk or table lamp built almost entirely from black pipe fittings. Four pipe legs come together into an X-shaped base for a low, stable footprint, and a vertical pipe riser carries a standard lamp socket and a vintage-style Edison bulb up top.…
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Mid-Century Record Player Stand With Sound Bar & Vinyl Storage
U.S. vinyl revenue passed $1 billion in 2025 for the first time, according to the RIAA’s year-end report: nearly 47 million records sold. A record collection that size needs somewhere to actually live, and a turntable needs somewhere steady to sit, and increasingly people want that “somewhere” to look like it was designed on purpose.…
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Vertical Kerf-Cut Knife Block: A Hollow, Open-Front DIY Build
Most DIY knife block plans start with a solid block of hardwood and a drill press: bore a series of angled holes, and you’re done. This one took a different path: a tall, narrow, fully hollow plywood carcase with the knife slots cut as straight saw kerfs across the top edge, plus one larger open…
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The Poplar End Table: A Budget-Friendly Two-Tier Build
Poplar doesn’t get much love in furniture circles: it’s usually the wood you paint, not the wood you show off. This end table makes the case for using it anyway: a simple two-tier design with tapered outer legs and an open lower shelf, finished in a warm stain that turns an inexpensive board into a…
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IKEA Malm Dresser Hack: Rebuilding It in OSB Plywood
How an IKEA Malm chest of drawers became the starting point for a fully custom OSB plywood dresser — raw carcass, salvaged drawer hardware, and a matte black finish.
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Building a Birch Plywood Cabinet Box: Glue-Up and Assembly
A birch plywood cabinet carcass caught mid-build — panels labeled and marked, corners notched and clamped square, an interior shelf glued in place. No finished photos exist yet for this one; this post documents the assembly stage honestly, as it was shot.
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Modern Birch Plywood Nightstand: A DIY Build With Cut List
A modern nightstand with angled sides and exposed plywood-edge grain, built from birch plywood. See the design sketches, real cut list, and build photos.
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A Modern Rustic Desk with a Torched Wood Top
A writing desk that pairs a clean, modern box-leg base with a top built from individually torched boards — a streaked gray-brown-copper finish in the spirit of shou sugi ban. Documented from burned boards to finished piece.
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The Rustic Cedar Coffee Table: A Modern Waterfall-Style Build
A rustic cedar coffee table with mitered waterfall ends, a mixed-tone plank top, and open end shelves — built unstained, then finished in a dark stain.