This is an outdoor bench, made from pressure treated wood and the seat is weaved with Water-ski-rope. With a more exotic wood type it would work great as an indoor bench as well.

-Mads-

Hi LumberJocks,

Here is my new folding chair. Although it is outdoor photos, it is an indoor chair. It is made from Oak and weaved with Danish Cord. Weaving is very hard on your fingers and very time consuming, but I find the result very rewarding. The seat and back pivots around a wooden dowel, so I avoided using any metal hardware.

Mads

Hi LumberJocks,

Although this is a painted project I decided to share it anyway.

I designed and built a modern “dog-house”, that doubles as a bedside table and as a dog bed and den.
Inside, the pet can snuggle up and is provided with a quiet, dark shelter and a matching cushion. The terrace offers a lookout spot with a cozy sheepskin.

I have the “house” listed on Etsy.com. If you want to visit :). Direct link here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15237382.

I mostly used MDF for this project, which is great to work with for a project like this.

Thanks,

Mads

Here is another Scrap wood project. Inspired by a chair from Italian Edra, however this chair is made from real scrap wood. I started out by making a basic frame from 1×4s and then added plywood pieces and other scraps. It was very fun to do and I didn’t have to cut straight and measure too much.

Here is my second scrap wood wall. This one is made from various lengths of 2×4s ripped in thicknesses from 1/4 to 1in. I put all the pieces through the thickness planer to get one smooth side and gave them a walnut stain. The pieces were then randomly attached to the wall with hot-melt glue. The project was not much fun to do, but I like the result ;)

I know this does not require much wood working skill to do, but I thought I would share what I did with less desirable wood scraps.

No, it’s not the couch, but the wall I want to talk about ;).

The wall is made from end grain pieces of 2×4 and 2×6 lumber anything I had lying around, even pressure treated wood went into the pot. I cut the pieces in thicknesses from 1/4 to 1/2 in and nailed them to the wall in a random pattern.

I got the idea one time I went to Home Depot and saw the end of a big pallet of 2×4s and thought it would look nice as a wall. Almost a wood version of the stacked rock walls. It is easy and cheap to do, but about 2000 pieces went into this wall measuring 10×9ft, so it takes some time.

Mads

By using scrap pieces I ended up with this “butcher block style” table. The table frame is made from Red Oak and the top is made from regular 2×4 construction lumber.
The process was pretty straight forward. I did use the thickness planer for the top which I think was borderline smart to do, I feared that the block would break, but it worked without breaking the block or the planer.

This is my prototype of a folding chair made of plywood. It is inspired by some Danish designed chairs from the 50s. It is quite comfortable, but I will be changing the design a bit and make it more sleek.