Home Accessories - handmade - built-ins etc.

[Sassy]

We've got some very talented people on this forum!

Good to hear from you, Cecilia!  Your place looks awesome!  Did you end up covering your earth floors with tile?  I remember when you were tamping the floors - we're in the process of putting in the floors downstairs - will be CBRI light duty concrete floor (Glenn's written about it in the Underground cabin thread).  We are going to have to re-do the floors in the 1st part of the house - we have big tree roots growing under it in several places causing the floor to crack so is a real mess to keep the broken parts of the floor from crumbling all over   

Andrew, I really like your rocking bench & couch - it all looks really nice!

[cecilia]

Hi Peg

Not sure who you were asking "what timber is it made from", but if it was about Jonni's refectory table, then the timber for the top was sold to us as messmate (which we have on many of our walls), but we don't think it is. The legs were made from yellow box (eucalypt).

Sassy, our floors are covered with ceramic tiles. They never were earth floors (which would have been lovely), as we built the house on three separate concrete slabs, with only three penetrations of the slab (covered by termi-mesh). Termites are bad in these parts and I often find them in old logs in the garden. We have to maintain a visible edge of the slab and check that regularly to make the dear little critters aren't building mud tunnels up the walls to get to the timber posts and window frames. So far so good!

Once Jonni has finished building his remaining raised vegie garden beds, he'll design and build my garden shed. He'd like to do a few things that he wasn't game to incorporate into the house, as we'd never built anything before and thought we'd better not be too ambitious. So now I've decided not to have the garden shed built up the back of the property, but put it right in the garden fairly close to the pond. Am thinking of earth floor in there.

Down here I've seen some beautiful floors where some sort of coloured stones have been mixed with concrete and then ground down and polished so the finished floor is a mottled effect with the various shades and colours of the stones. Of course if it's overdone it can look awful!

Love the rustic furniture - I keep saving pieces of timber and sticks so Jonni can make me a few rustic benches to put in the garden. At the moment I'm happy to have a few upended lengths of log to sit on.

all the best to everyone from The Duckpond
cecilia

www.duckpond-design.com.au/theduckpond

[Thejapster]

Some very impressive stuff here

[PEG688]

  Little VG Fir mantel,

  Still in work on it , hope to install it next weekend,

 What they have existing ,

 


  Cardboard template for design / decision making reasons.


 

 
 

 Pre fitting to the stone, I figured with all the scribing I needed to do pre fitting was wise

 


 



 

 Disasembled for the trip back to the shop ,

 



   



 

 




 

 

 
   

[MountainDon]

Oooo! Nice. Excellent scribing. Looks like the wood grew around the stones. 

[Redoverfarm]

Nice work Peg.  Shame they didn't decide to do that at the time they laid the stone it would have cut the price considerably.  I have a friend that is going to T&G a ceiling adjacent to a stone flue.  I had a hard time conveniencing him not to run the stone all the way to the ridge until the T&G on the ceiling was installed.  IMO it just makes a neater job and a lot less aggrevating. 

[PEG688]

 Thanks. They're about ten years into the house. I think at the time they didn't know what they wanted and that tile mantel was what they / contractor / home owners / tile guy maybe came up with. A lot of potential 'bad decisions' happen near the end of jobs , people just want to be "Done making decisions" which seem endless , colors , tile selections floor coverings cabinets , plumbing details etc etc etc.  So they 'pull the trigger'  on some odd things once in awhile.   

  Yes,  it would have been easier to bring the stone to the wood and grout it, but hey it's work   It's all good.

[PEG688]

 Got-er Done ,

 View from above , 2nd floor balcony,

 


 


 

[MountainDon]

     Looks great!  Is that one of your pieces just to the left?

[PEG688]

     Looks great!  Is that one of your pieces just to the left?

 

  Thanks , nope  just the mantel. 

[Sassy]

Wow, that's a beauty!  Great scribing - I bet they were really pleased with it! 

[PEG688]

Wow, that's a beauty!  Great scribing - I bet they were really pleased with it! 

 They seemed to be, they payed me $200.00 more than the bill I gave them.

[Pine Cone]

Peg - Very nice work on the mantel.  You are quite the craftsman!  I've done my share of scribing, but nothing that complex.



Here is my latest effort, a blanket chest made from pine boards milled off my cabin logs.  The idea was to mimic the look of the cabin.  It has casters on the corners so that I can roll it around.  It makes pretty fair bench to sit on, and we will be able to roll it under the table to give us more room if needed.

Here is the cabin...



Here is the chest from the front



From a diagonal



A with the lid opened



After the finish (Minwax WipeOn Poly over a water-based dye) is though curing I will put some red cedar in the bottom to give it that cedar-chest smell.

[Sassy]

Nice blanket chest! 

[PEG688]

 New fountain for the garden,


 


 

 The barrel had to take up some , after 12 hours it held the water well, she was leakin a might right outta the gate.


 

[PEG688]

  Nice work Pine Cone!