Well, some of you know that I've moved into a new place. It's been a week shy of two months, and I'm quite happy with how I'm turning this place into something which resembles a home.
When I first moved in, the house was very very empty, and I had plenty of things all over the floor. My kitchen utensils were on the floor, my computer was and still is on the floor, my tool kit (which I took over from my dad) was on the floor. I needed to put my things somewhere, and there were insufficient tabletops and counter tops.
I've always believed that the kitchen is the heart of a home, so the first thing which needed to be sorted out was organising my kitchen. The workspace was already too small, so shelves were definitely out of the question. A quick call back home to my ever capable mother got me loaded with high quality wooden pallets and planks, kickstarting my adventure into carpentry. The first project was to build a wall hanger - a linseed finish plank bolted to the wall with some nails hammered in to hang my growing collection of kitchen utensils. What you see in the picture is about a third of what I have. hehe.
There's this place near my old house called Publika, where they throw out a lot of their unwanted wooden pallets. I made a quick trip there and came home with not only another wooden pallet (purpose pending), and a nice big, solid piece of plywood. Gave that board's surface a quick polish, and sanded down the sides (they were really sharp), then covered it with a layer of beeswax-mineral oil mix. Voilà, new table top.
Lately, I've also got this baking itch. Not much I could do with my oven sitting precariously on my fridge with my electric kettle perching on my oven. I needed more place to put my things in the dining area. Several wall braces and trips to the hardware shop, I am the proud craftsman of a new kitchen shelf... which kind of totters and creaks awkwardly when you put things on it, but it seems fine so far. I just hope it doesn't crash... my oven is too precious for that.
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