Reverse Order

I was recently hired to build a cherry bookcase for a renovation going on in the Upper East Side. Along with that came a few other things to build but I was most looking forward to making the bookcase. Not that it was a fancy or crazy design...maybe the opposite. It was straight forward rectangles which to me meant that the lines had to be nice and straight or else they would stick out like a sore thumb. I put a lot of time into it and was very happy with the result, as was the general contractor that hired me:

But alas, it was never destined to see a single book. It seems the client walked in and felt that it closed the room in too much. By all accounts they thought the work was good...it just wasn't what they wanted.

So this is how I left the job site on Monday afternoon. Out it came, leaving only a plaster wall that needed a lot of repair work...

It was disheartening to say the least. But those are the breaks I suppose.

One more thing...

I built this great house for a client...but he still seems to prefer the pool house:

Table Thought

The challenge is to make a usable, stable table (and maybe a chair) out of one piece of plywood that uses no screws or any fasteners to hold it together...just a series of cuts and grooves to allow the wood to be banged together with a mallet. This is one idea for it. It seems like something that could allow for added pieces to create L shaped desks, multiple desks, longer desks, etc...