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blpurdom

The problem with wood

Mar 30, 2014 00:10

Those of you who also see my Facebook posts know that I am working on turning a box room in our house into a home office. (It has also been a playroom for our kids, when they were little, and a dressing room back when our bedroom was next to it, since there is a connecting door between the rooms.)

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blpurdom March 31 2014, 23:56:26 UTC

I've started work on the pockets. Found an old unused piece of a 1x6 in the basement, and some pieces of 3/4" thick wood, each about 2" wide. Each leg needs a 2.5" square space in the pocket, so I'm cutting the 1x6 into four pieces that are each 4" square. Then I have to decide if butt joints or miters would be more stable for the pockets. Miters would be "prettier", but if they fall apart, that's not so pretty.

One benefit to having the table top-down on the floor again: when I was using it as a desk, I discovered that there were a couple of other places where I needed to secure loose boards with mending plates, so it's another opportunity to take care of that.