This is the simple project I referred to in Requiem for a Router.  It’s a cargo organizer designed to fit the back of my wife Julie’s 2014 Mazda 3 hatchback. Julie has usually gotten sedans and she generally springs for the...

The upper half of the closet system is actually pretty simple from a design/construction standpoint.  It consists of: A base, which is a plywood panel wrapped in solid maple trim; Two sides, which are 3/4″ plywood with a maple trim...

The last piece of the maple bedroom set is a closet system instead of a dresser.  The room where all of this is going is fairly small; the queen size bed takes up a lot of room.  The night stand and laptop desk are important for our geeky...

Progress on the laptop desk was going smoothly, so naturally Murphy had to step in and lay down the law.   Math is Hard Things started to go haywire when I test-fitted the top and top trim to the base.  I started setting up to miter...

  I started the laptop desk during the weekend between Christmas and New Year’s.  Unlike the bed and night stand the desk is entirely my design, though of course it borrows elements from the other pieces so that it will feel...

The night stand is starting to take shape now, with the main carcass assembled and the drawer together.  Now come the interesting parts. The Top WOOD’s original plan called for a solid wood top made from a glued-up panel with just a...