DIY Coffee Table

This is another completed DIY project that we did, a coffee table.  It is a mixture of wood and metal. We think the wood is from a mahogany family.  Hubby and a neighbor found the tree which was chopped down by the local municipal council by the road side.  Apparently someone has slice the tree already but was not able to transport it.

This project took about only two weeks to complete.  Here are some pictures on the chronicles of the coffee table.

This is where the wood was found.

The wood was a little too thick for a coffee table.

Our neighbour helped us to slice the wood
with his chainsaw. 

The wood is in the process of being sliced.

Done! Sliced!

A close-up of the wood slice.

Hubby used a sander to smoothen the wood.

Getting the wood ready to be treated.

The wood has been treated so that no bugs
will attack the wood in the future.

We used metal for the coffee table legs.
We did not use wood as we did not
want to take the beauty away from
the coffee table top.

Legs from the other side of the coffee table.

Close up of the wood texture. Beautiful!

Bracket being fixed onto the metal leg.
Mini shelf will be fixed later.

Our DIY Shoe Cabinet - Part 1

Living in a home with 5 people, of which 3 are growing up children, there are bound to be lots of shoes lying around!  Shoes for school, shoes for going out, shoes for sports, shoes for work, shoes for walking and the list goes on ... 

So handyman Daddy made us a shoe cabinet.  One that can keep all our shoes.  It will come with a short bench so that we can sit to put our shoes on and a tall cabinet to put our laundry hangers and pegs and maybe some gardening tools.

The materials used for this cabinet are recycled wood from old kampung (village) houses such as the walls and window frames.  The type of wood are Balau and Chenggal, I don't know what are the English names for these woods.

We will leave you with some photos and will update more when the final project is completed.

The green drawers is where we currently keep our shoes,
one drawer for each family member.

The frame is put in place to confirm the length we want.

One of the cabinet doors in the making.

The skeleton frame of the cabinet.

The side and top of the cabinet is put in place.

The cabinet doors are being fixed.

Furniture Refurbishment ~ We found more Chairs

CRAZY US!

We found more rattan chairs and of course we had to have it! Someone had thrown away six white color rattan chairs.  We took only one as the others were rotting.  

Funny how I have always wanted white rattan chairs and now that I found them, I want to spray them bright lemon yellow, and that is just what I did.  This rattan chair will be used in my craft room.

Brought home two rattan chairs but only one was in good condition.
After spray paint ~ the bright lemon  yellow.

The rattan chair in the midst of being spray painted.