TV Room Furniture

I wanted to post this project because it is an example of how  small details makes a big difference. This elder couple of this home needed a media cabinet and going out to the Thomasville store would not do. The house has mostly old pieces of traditional Early American wood furniture, solid wood of course, with indications of hand-crafted origins. Though this is painted, it’s possible to see whether a piece is made from some modern composite board or in this case real pine wood boards. As I prepared the parts I used a hand plane over the surfaces to leave tools marks and irregular edges, a few imperfections in the doors squareness, the natural warp from decades of wood shrinkage…