Day 900 Never a dull moment

26th January 2020

We had prospective buyers for our dark blue and stained wood dresser due to visit in the early afternoon.

This was the piece that we thought we would never sell. There had been a few false alarms, which made us question if we should change the colour, but when the people turned up to look at it, they wanted it.

We agreed to deliver it to their static home later in the afternoon.

I had been working in the garage cutting the timber for the doors of the drawerless dresser.

I chose to use some old wood that had been used in a wall decoration in the old house.

I decided to join the rails and stiles using half-laps, and it was fun cutting them as I hadn’t cut them for long time. It tests your ability to cut in a straight line, a skill I do not usually have no matter how hard I try. But today it was different, with a lot of care and patience I cut them all fairly well. They will just need a bit of fine tuning on assembly.

Kelli was working on a small rustic table she found at Goodwill. It had a bit of damage to one of the corners which she fixed with some cellulose wax.

We made our delivery to the grateful customers, stopping off again at Goodwill just in case there were other furniture pieces waiting to be transformed. Unfortunately we were out of luck, but during the evening Kelli found a dresser on Marketplace in Grand Rapids, and a shelf unit in Zeeland. We also sold an ethnic style ottoman to a return customer in Zeeland, so tomorrow will be another busy, varied day of delivering and picking up stuff.