For my king bed, I wanted to do something more interesting than simple plywood panels.  Raised panels are nice, but they really didn’t fit into the look of the rest of the set.  Instead, I opted to fill my frames with a lattice of...

This bed is designed to look like the night stands and dresser:  cherry casing sitting on a walnut base.  The frames for the headboard and footboard stand in for the cases, but the “base” is actually four separate...

A king-sized bed frame is a jumbo project.  My lumber shopping list included 49 board-feet of 5/4 cherry, 10 board-feet of 12/4 cherry, 52 board-feet of 5/4 walnut, and 5 board-feet of 4/4 maple for the slats.  To make sure they’d...

The final piece of Julie’s and my new bedroom set is a king-sized bed: As you can see, I’ve deliberately taken a lot of style cues from the dresser and night stands so that it is clearly a set.  The headboard and foot board...

The compact work bench was conceived and designed as a simple, functional project to fill a need.  As such, it’s made of very inexpensive materials,  MDF and dimensional lumber, and designed to go together quickly with a minimum of...

The oldest thing in my shop, aside from me, is this table: My father and I built this in the early 1990s, when I was just getting into woodworking and still had very little idea how things were done.  It’s made of dimensional lumber...