Rate this post My mum has this small oak bowl on her hallway table that she’s had for nearly fifteen years. Nothing fancy, just somewhere to drop keys and post, but it’s aged into this warm honey colour that no shop-bought piece ever seems to have straight off the shelf. That’s really the appeal of […]
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Rate this post A friend of mine spent two years saving for a solid oak dining table. Beautiful thing, heavy as a small car, the kind of piece she figured her grandkids would eventually inherit. Meanwhile her sister furnished an entire apartment with engineered wood pieces for less than the price of that one table, […]
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Rate this post Here’s a mistake I see constantly with people buying woodworking tools. Someone gets excited about woodworking, and the first thing they buy is a table saw. Not a chisel, not a hand saw — a table saw. Eight hundred dollars later, they still don’t know how to square a board, and the […]
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Rate this post wood finishes process furniture workshop So a friend of mine spent an entire bank holiday weekend restoring an old oak table she picked up at a car boot sale. Sanded it back beautifully — genuinely lovely work — then just grabbed whatever tin of finish was sitting in the shed. Two weeks […]
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Rate this post A neighbor of mine spent close to four grand on a “premium” deck a few summers back. By the second winter half the boards had cupped so badly you could trip over them. Turned out the contractor used a cheap pine and never mentioned it needed sealing every year. She had no […]
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