 Sometime in 2004ish, I visited RocketMan in his apartment to find a giant plank of wood: about 2 inches thick, 6 feet long, sturdy but scratched. “What’s that?” “I found it in the garbage room.” “Oh. What’s it for?” “I don’t know. It’s a good piece of wood, though.” “OK.” At that point, he had two chairs that he’d picked up off . . . → Read More: DIY Coffee Table: The beater edition 
Cerrado! As promised, back to the whole point of RocketCityDigs: making the galaxy livable for small-space dwellers. Since we converted the office into the nursery (and we swears, we’ll finish that and post photos eventually), our magnet board has been woefully leaning against the wall in our sunroom. The magnet board itself is a DIY job: . . . → Read More: DIY Magnet Board, or When One Runneth Out Of Space, Layer  The underside of the bed, plus Dave’s feet. I’d planned on blogging this earlier, but life (specifically, new life) interfered. For going on six months or so, RocketMan had been saying he wanted to build a bed—something with storage underneath. Weeks passed, months passed, and as I neared my due date and mentioned we’d better get . . . → Read More: Just in time for no sleeping, a new bed! 
Wine Rack I My second blog, way back, was about our custom-built combo bar, cookbook shelf, and wine rack. (Cocktail Hour, January 15, 2009) The wine rack itself was made of stacked cardboard tubing; it worked well, but didn’t fit bigger Pinot Noir and champagne bottles. An unpredicted drawback was that the space for it was . . . → Read More: DIY Wine Rack II: Taller, Thinner, Less Cardboard  As I’m home sick with a cold, and no hope of symptom relief from my usual OTC drugs, I figured I’d pick an easy topic: shelves. Shelves are the small-space inhabitant’s zinc. It’s her TheraFlu. Her warm bath followed by Vicks Vaporub. Shelves save precious floor space, are reasonably easy to install, and best of all, . . . → Read More: Did I mention we're into shelves?  I’ve made no secret of our love for found furniture and recycled goods — half of our apartment furniture has been literally picked up off the street. (See the dresser from the bedroom blog.) Sometimes, RocketMan finds a bit of trash that’s every bit as useful as furniture, even if he doesn’t know how useful it’ll . . . → Read More: Oh, How Thy Trash Doth Light the Night |
 
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