I enjoy working with wood. It is always a good day when I get to make a pile of saw dust constructing a piece of furniture that will get years of use out it. Take a look around you, today if it is mass manufactured it is usually made out of plastic and metal. Mass wood manufactured furniture can be found, but the quality… is not the greatest.

You see, what I like about woodworking is that I can custom create something that fits my needs exactly. For example, I am in the process of building my daughter’s dresser bed. My wife & I looked at several offerings of storage beds at local furniture stores. We saw the same designs with ever so slight differences. However, there were two things that we really did not like about the designs (more…)

While designing the platform bed with the storage drawers, I wanted full extension drawer guides. The three quarter drawer guides are ok, but not for this project. The drawers are to be used as a dresser. It frustrates me when I have to try to get to the last garment at the back of the drawer that is still inside of the bed frame.

I settled on a pair of 100 pound full extension drawer guides are more than strong enough to hold the weight of the cloths and just about anything else a person would put into the drawer.

Now, if one of my kids decides to store their life’s collection of rocks in the drawer… well that is going to be a problem. I will cross that bridge when I get to it, hopefully never. (more…)