HOME OFFICE PROJECTS

C-TABLE with SHELF

(04/2019)

Finished Side Table

Vertical Side Piece

I really love the contrasting woods when looking at the finger joint

One Vertical Side

Defeating gravity, this was a challenge to make sure it didn’t tip over.

Bonus shelf

Box Joint Jig

Check out my blog on how to make this jig necessary to make this table

Only 5 parts to make this table

The jig in action

Pipe clamps securing the pieces during the glue up

Lots of sanding

Right angled clamp jigs- self made

One more component to glue in, the top

Finger joints in full view

My wife has a home office that she recently purchased a Chaise Lounger , its a model that doesn’t have any arms on it, so it makes it difficult to read or drink a cup of coffee at. So She asked me to come up with a idea of a table.

So I came across a lot of style’s of table that would work great but something stuck out about this style of table and mainly it was the joint that was used to assemble it, its called a finger joint (box joint) and its simply a series of fingers and slot that when mated together forms an extremely strong joint as well as looking very attractive and not as hard to complete as say a dovetail joint.

My blog detailing this project goes into a lot more detail but these are the steps I took in making this project, but please feel free to click the below links for he Project Blog and Complete plans on making it.

Materials Needed
Wood Prep
Crosscutting the parts
The Box Joint Jig
Cutting the finger joints
Dry Assembly & Clamping Aids
Glue-Up
Sanding
Finished Table

Project Blog

Project plans

ROOM DIVIDER

(07/2018)

For the past 6 weeks or so I have been working on this project, but I would say for the last 2 1/2 months I have been making projects for my wife's home office, this is the latest and probably last project I make for this space for some time.

The project was inspired by a lot of internet searches and a lot of Pinterest in-put, I took parts of a multitude of projects and then added my touch. I decided to put a wooden pattern on the divider to give the project my touch on ut as I have never seen this pattern done on anything even resembling a divider, I found a lot of herringbone style was flooring and feature walls.

This project had a lot of first's for me and that is what drew me to the project, that is not say that it didnt have a lot of challenges and times where I almost scrapped the whole project and told the wife to just go buy one, but I hung in and made the project my own and I am glad that I did.

Like I said this project had a lot of first for me but to list just a few

I never made a pattern template before
This is one of the biggest projects that I had ever made in my 4 years of woodworking
Never used a HVLP sprayer to finish a project this big
I made over 200 pieces that I hand sanded, routered, and glued them to a panel but so glad I did because without them it would just look very plain.
I never used chalk-board paint or cork-board tiles before

Below are a few of the project pics and the finished article, I did write a very extensive blog on this project and I will attach a link below, If you would like to undertake this project and make it for your own home I will be publishing plans soon.

All finished

The divider is in its new home and it looks really good

The back side

Here you can see the back sides of the divider, thisside is the kitchen. Love the functionality of the cork board and giant chalk board

A close up of the back of the divider

Chalk board paint

Sucess, this really came out better than I would of thought

Finished Divider before install

HVLP

I never used a HVLP sprayer I am never using a brush again, this is a huge time saver

The pattern

This is where I was starting to fix the pattern

200 Pieces

If you ever wondered what 200 pieces of wood looks like well here ya go, this took 2 days to do…. but worth every minute

Pattern template

First time making one of these, this was also a huge time saver

One panel Down

Looks good even lying down, I just love looking at this panel.

Cork board

One of my least favorite aspects of the project, cork was very brittle and to be honest I am not fond of the cork tile seems, if I were to do this again I would use a cork roll

Glue ups

This was the only glue up I had to do for the entire project, HUH

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PROJECT PLANS

MINIMALIST BOOK STAND

So I have been building projects for the home office for a little while now and I wanted to make a book stand for all the books and magazines that I have been collecting and what better place to store them than in the home office.

I didn't have the room for a traditional book case so I went online for some inspiration and came across a concept on Pinterest that was made to house DVD and music CD'S and I thought that if I just made it bigger or taller it could accommodate the books and magazines.

This project was a completely new build to me for a couple of reasons

I don't usually design vertical projects and this was definitely a tall one at over 72" tall.
I never made bracket feet before
I used Sketchup in a way I never used it before to determine the tilt angle for the bottom shelves

So I turned to Sketchup to get a 3D model of what I had come up with so far and to also determine what it would look like in the office since I already did a 3D rendering of the room.

This was not a long project but it was challenging one, I did blog the build progress and you can find it here

Completed Shelf

Here is the completed shelf unit in the home office, I am very surprised at how much storage is actually on this

Front view

I am still wondering if I need to secure this to the wall, as it sitting on carpet and its quite tall

Bottom Shelf

This was a process trying to figure out the location off the bottom shelf in regards to the base, as the rest of the shelves were based on this shelves location, Sketchup to the rescue

Shop Pic

Here I am getting ready to secure the shelves in place using screws through the back of the vertical supports

Staining Time

I needed to cover up the areas of the unit that were not receiving the stain, so I used painters tape. It did an OK job but I needed to do a fair bit of clean up after

Bottom Shelf

I am doing a dry fit on this to see if the bottom shelf would hold its position when I had books on it. There is no glue or fasteners used in this process, as you can see it worked quite well

Bracket Feet

My original pplan was not use any feet but I changed my mind when I first stood the constructed unit up for the first time, I never made bracket feet before and it was a fun side project.

3D Model

Most of my projects start with this step, I just love how useful this software is.

COMPUTER MONITOR SHELF

(04/2018)

This was a fun little project I have been spending a lot more time than I used to at the desktop computer and I need to make some organizational change to the desk as I need more room and needed to raise the monitor up to a more reasonable height as I am 6’2

I went online for some inspiration and came across multiple ideas that I liked a little. Using some features in each one I kind of combined them all and added my own touches.

The entire unit is made up of joinery and no screws were used to fix the parts together.

I used locking rabbit joints and dado’s added with glue.

The unit measures in at 28” wide x 10” deep and 9”’at its tallest side that I made high to accommodate my headphones. The unit also has a shelf that is divided into 2 compartments that can hold papers and I also put a compartment on the right side that I am currently putting writing instruments in.

Finally the bottom shelf is raised up about 1.5” so as that I can slide the keyboard under, I finished the unit with 3 coats of Polyacrylic .

Thanks for looking and have a great day

Project Plans

CONSOLE TABLE

(05/2018)

Finished console table

I love how this project came out and it looks especially good in the new office where we can have a little storage and add alot of flowers to the top

Inlaid Top

One of the main reason this project is a fav is becasue I was successfully added a inlay into the solid oak top, this was the first time I actually purchased inlay and added it to a project.

Side VIew

Here you can see the side spindles they really add to the style of the unit

Spindle close up

Front View

Since we decided to renovate one of the rooms in my house to a home office, we have been planning and researching the look of the room so we decided to do a minimalist look and my wife needed a table that was flush with the window sills in the room so as that we could put plants and a few decorative things such as pictures and ornaments on it.

Although I made this project for the home office this console table could be put in almost any room and the dimensions could also be altered to make it wider, deeper or higher.

So off I went doing some research and came across this console table with tapered legs and thought the design of this table would look awesome in the room. So I built a 3D model on my Sketchup software program to get a realistic view of the unit.

The console table features the following elements

Solid Oak Tabletop with a inlay around the perimeter of the panel. the top also has a routered ogee profile around the edges
I used dowel joinery for the entire project
Tapered front and back legs, using a home made tapering jig for the table-saw
Finished with 3 coats of Minwax poly-acrylic

If you would like to see more details of this project please click the links below, one of them is to my blog page and the other has detailed project build details. I am also working on PDF plans that I will sell in my shop for a small fee, they will be released soon

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this content as much I liked writing it.

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