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JackN
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Well, guess I could finally post some pics of my wood hobby...
I love working with rough surfaced wood, finishing, and rustic stuff.
When we finally got our home in Tennessee, one of the first things I did was take the wife's Eastern White Pine log bed frame down into the basement and sand it completely down, stained and Polyeurathaned it. We put it up in the master bedroom which had this horrid wallpaper. We got new matress and box springs for it, and she bought a quilt and I picked one too. Mine actually ended up on this bed, her quilt would end up on the other bed you'll see below.
Of course I had to remodel the bedroom, so all the wood finish on the walls and ceiling, the log shelf, and the table by the window I built.
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/bed1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/bed2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/BedRoomShelf.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/BedRoom2.jpg[/IMG]
I didn't build these, but we had to have them.
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/cedar_set.jpg[/IMG]
I love working with rough surfaced wood, finishing, and rustic stuff.
When we finally got our home in Tennessee, one of the first things I did was take the wife's Eastern White Pine log bed frame down into the basement and sand it completely down, stained and Polyeurathaned it. We put it up in the master bedroom which had this horrid wallpaper. We got new matress and box springs for it, and she bought a quilt and I picked one too. Mine actually ended up on this bed, her quilt would end up on the other bed you'll see below.
Of course I had to remodel the bedroom, so all the wood finish on the walls and ceiling, the log shelf, and the table by the window I built.
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/bed1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/bed2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/BedRoomShelf.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/BedRoom2.jpg[/IMG]
I didn't build these, but we had to have them.
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/cedar_set.jpg[/IMG]
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I designed it more as a day bed, for reading, enjoying the rain, napping, etc.
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/RawCedar1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/RawCedar2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Start.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Unfinished.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Finished.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Finished2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Finished3.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Matress.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Done.jpg[/IMG]
I'm doing smaller projects these days with cedar (I just love this wood), which I'll show someday when I get pics.
What we have now we could not have in California, so while some sacrifices were made, we gained so much more in our situation.
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/HouseCaveIce.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/CaveWaterFall.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/ForestCanopy.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Peaceful.jpg[/IMG]
Cheers!
Your cedar bed looks great, but I fear the mattress is seated too low in the frame, you'll always be hitting the frame with your arms and legs at some point which can be quite painful. I remember the dorm beds, the mattress was only 3 inches above the wood frame and I hurt myself regularly until I got myself a new frameless bed. I have the scars on my lower legs to prove it. :D
Or maybe I'm just clumsy that way.
Jake
I do love the warmth of wood. It makes me feel so comfortable without much of any effort.
In short, post up those photos of the rest of your abode :D
Stingray: It's sort of how a certain Callista being has a certain futon with a raised mattress, such that the rails on either end are just slightly below the level of the mattress. Being the height I am, all it takes is one soft [I]*thwomp*[/I] and I smack right into the things with either my ankles or the back of my head :p Any higher and my body would account for them being there. any lower and the problem would be out of reach. but at that exact height, to the centimeter...they pose a threat to my well being!
[IMG]http://www.tamyk.net/snapshotFiles/2007-10-29_Fullmoon%20above%20Munkholmen.JPG[/IMG]
For a non perverted comment: Very nice Jack. I'm envious of your abilities. (I should repost the views from where I grew up).
This next year will see a large amount of Lob Lolly and Eastern White pine being started on my pasture acreage... I'm getting a new shipment of seeds from California this year, so hopefully I'll be more successful than I was last year. I had one really good California Incense Cedar take root and is in excellent condition. I'll probably leave it in its pot for another year or two before I transplant it one more final time.
Hope to get some old friends started from the seeds coming this year.
As for the Eastern Red Cedar, that stuff grows so much like weeds that I don't really have to do anything to get them to come back.
I also received a Bracken Fern leaf with mega-spores, so I also hope to be growing the 3-4 foot variety I used to walk through in the forests of California.
anywho... I'm rambling... yeah Fire is a concern, but to me not really more than anywhere else I might live. I chose to live life now, and not regret what I could have had/done.
:)
Jack, one day I'm going to have to show you [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LakeGunnBush.jpg]New[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coromandel_Forest_n.jpg]Zealand[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mount_of_moss-te_anau.jpg]bush[/url].
I on the other hand, have no such skills.
That looks awesome, but where's the Velociraptors?
Pocket warmers FTW!