Built-in bookcases. I did all the finish, including the floor and columns.

Bookcase- She has plenty of space for those books now!!

Here is a bookshelf that I built in my own house about a year ago. I'm just now putting it on here, because I just now wrapped the baseboard around it. Other carpenters have told me "You do your worst work on your own house.", but I thought to myself, "not me. I'll be different. I'll do my best work on my own place." Well, I say now that they were right. When you do it all day, you don't want to do it during free time. This one was a "when you have time" kindof thing. So please don't judge company quality based on just this one picture. Also, it is obvious that I need to make about three more of these to even get close for our books.

Hickory dresser/shelving. It is about 8.5 feet wide, with six big drawers(11.5X28 and 9.5X28, and adjustable shelving on top. However, all the shelves in the angled sections are fixed. The wood is hickory, and I did a Danish oil slurry finish. Slurry means that during the second coat of oil, you wet sand with a very fine grit sandpaper, and then again with an even finer paper for the third coat. The end product is is a thing of beauty. Even open grained woods like oak can be as smooth as glass. The whole piece was built in place, mostly due to the logistics of the house. (The piece wouldn't have made it to the third floor bedroom where it was installed.) It is such a joy to work with interesting woods like hickory, which has a very unique personality. Notice how I tried to make the individual pieces flow, like where it meets the ceiling, or the top drawer fronts. I tried to avoid abrupt color or grain changes at joints, so the appearance is that the board actually turns the corner. The drawer fronts will have antique style pulls, and I will update this post when they are on.