| Project by Mark A. DeCou | posted 704 days ago | 1396 views | 1 time favorited | 11 comments |  |
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Running in my “Fun With Cedar Logs” Series on functional woodart made from discarded Kansas Flint Hill’s Prairie cedar trees, I built a little stool.
We use it in our entryway as a place to sit and take off, and put on shoes. I hung the “Western Hat Rack” on the wall above the stool as an ensemble (clinch your teeth when you say “ensemble”). Ha, have fun.
This item is ”For Sale”, but until it sells, we are using it at home.
I entered this item in the local Chase County Fair last week, where it took 2nd place in “woodworking”, losing to my “Against The Wind” carved white oak chair.
Thanks for looking,
Mark DeCou
www.decoustudio.com
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Want to See More of my Furniture Work?:
If you go to my Mark DeCou Website you will find that I have not updated my website in quite some time. I realize that I need to invest in improving my website, but until that is accomplished, here are some more Lumberjocks related lilnks with updated postings of my furniture work, sorted into categories. Thanks for your interest in my work, and your patience with my website.
- Arts & Crafts Entry Table; with Carved Oak Leaves
- Arts & Crafts Orchid Stand w/ Wine Bottle Storage
- Arts & Crafts Style Morris Inspired Chairs
- Arts & Crafts Display Top Coffee Table
- Arts & Crafts Style Inspired End Table Set
- Arts & Crafts Style Inspired Prairie Couch
- Table Lamps
- Arts & Crafts Carved Entertainment Center
- Mission Entertainment Center
- Carved Communion Table
- Carved Roll Top Sound Equipment Cabinet
- Fancy Church Side Altars
- Processional Cross
- Fancy Speaker's Lectern
- Church Hymn Number Board
- Communion Chalice (Cup) and Paten
- Sam Maloof Inspired Walnut Rocker
- Original Art Carved Tilt Front Desk, inspired by Birger Sandzen
- Natural Edge; Nakashima Inspired Coffee Table
- Decoratively Painted Box End Tables
- Birch China Cabinet for Cut Glass Collection
- Naughty (Knotty) Refined Rustic White Oak & Black Walnut China Hutch
- A Kansa Indian and Buffalo Accent Art-Chair
- Refined Rustic Dining Chairs
- Refined Rustic Dining Table
- Cowboy-Western Style Suitcase/Luggage Support Racks
- Fun With Cedar Logs #1; Sitting Stool
- Fun With Cedar Logs #2; Coat/Hat/Spur Rack
- Fun With Cedar Logs #3; Western Style Hat/Coat Rack
- Fun With Cedar Logs #4; Entryway Stool
- Kennebunkport Style Adirondack Chair
- Outdoor Garden Wedding Arbor
- Outdoor Project: Cedar Wood Double Settee
-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan
11 comments so far
RobS
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posted 704 days ago
Hmm, looks similar to something I’ve seen recently….:) Your’s is much prettier though. Great Job.
-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX
Mark A. DeCou
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posted 704 days ago
Thanks RobS: I saw your “Big Ash” project this morning, and remembered that I hadn’t photographed my own cedar stool. So, wallah, it is posted now.
thanks,
Mark
-- Mark DeCou - Kansas Flint Hill's Artisan
MsDebbieP
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posted 704 days ago
second place huh.. sorry to hear that you lost out to some other woodworker… he’s probably not as good.. just got lucky (haha yes, I saw that you won the first place as well—congratulations!!)
I love this bench—you know I love the rustic look. I like how the bench looks like it was just a log cut in half with 4 legs slapped onto it… really adds to the overall rustic look. Well done.
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Don
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posted 703 days ago
So different from your fine woodworking style. Isn’t expression with wood fantastic – so varied?
-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/
jockmike2
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posted 703 days ago
I just love rustic furniture. So you lost to youself huh. Is’nt that the beginning of the song I’m my own gramppa.
-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com
DAN
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posted 703 days ago
great project … love red cedar , rich color and smell. where did you find the double tree ? >grin<
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
oscorner
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posted 703 days ago
You really made a beautiful stool by keeping it rustic.
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Roger Strautman
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posted 703 days ago
I love the cedar wood Mark!
-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"
PanamaJack
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posted 703 days ago
B E A U T I F U L !!!
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mot
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posted 703 days ago
Another great cedar piece, Mark.
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
TomFran
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posted 702 days ago
Great rustic woodwork design! That cedar is so pretty.
-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28