Category: Furniture
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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 Rustic Platform Bed with a Reclaimed Wood Patchwork Headboard
A dark walnut-stained platform bed frame paired with a separately built reclaimed wood patchwork headboard — mixed board widths and tones laid up into one panel, then joined to the frame. Documented from raw lumber to finished piece.
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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.
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DIY Coffee Table Made From a Reclaimed Door
A coffee table built around a salvaged window sash — its own glass panes and muntins become the tabletop, and cut-down sash panels form the sides and legs — shown from raw material through the finished piece.
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Modern Four-Drawer Dresser with Walnut Trim
A four-drawer dresser built with a plywood body, a mitered solid-walnut frame, and walnut finger pulls let into each drawer front instead of separate hardware — including the color shift from raw plywood to an oiled, enriched finish.
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DIY Minimal Modern Coffee Table with a Floating Plywood Top
A low, minimalist coffee table built around a two-layer “floating” plywood top with a shadow-gap reveal, set on four individually splayed solid-wood legs joined with mortise-and-tenon joinery — including the leg-tapering jig and mitered frame that make both details possible.
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A Rustic Live-Edge Desk Built from Reclaimed Wood
A compact home-office desk built from a patchwork of reclaimed boards, finished with a hand-shaped wavy front edge for a live-edge look and set on angled A-frame legs — documented from raw frame to finished piece.
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Rustic Mirror Frame Built From Reclaimed Wood
A simple rustic mirror frame built by joining weathered, reclaimed boards around a plain mirror panel — glued and clamped rather than fastened with visible hardware, and photographed from glue-up through the finished piece.
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DIY Chevron Coffee Table Built From Reclaimed Wood
A coffee table built around a mitered chevron pattern using mixed-tone reclaimed boards, set on trestle-style legs with a scalloped foot detail — including the build progression from raw wood to finished piece.