Marietta Wood Works
Category: Furniture
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Kara & Floki’s Dining Room Table
As I wrapped up the final coat of finish on the white oak trestle-style dining room table, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride and satisfaction. This custom piece was designed to bring Kara and Floki’s family and friends together, and I envisioned it as the heart of their home – a gathering…
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Kara’s Ladder Vanity
As Kara’s birthday approached, Mona came to me with a special request: could we build Kara a custom vanity to fit her unique bedroom space? I was excited to take on the challenge, and after a conversation with Kara, we settled on a ladder-style design that would not only maximize the limited floor space but…
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Kara & Floki’s Banquettes
As we talked about the dining area in their new home, the first step was to create about eight feet of bench seating under the front window, and the custom table we were planning would span almost that length. In any home, storage is important, so we settled on storage banquettes to provide plenty of…
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Brownstone Floating Vanity
Our friends in Grand Rapids asked if I would be willing to design and build a custom floating vanity for their daughter’s family in Massachusetts. The vanity would be installed in a renovated 1868 four-story brownstone. Intrigued by the idea of having one of my pieces in such a historic building and eager to help…
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Jess Farm Table
When my nephew Ryan and his wife Makayla bought their farmhouse in western Michigan, a maple tree over three feet in diameter was literally pressing against the back wall of their new home. Soon, they had the old tree felled and hired a crew to mill it into thick slabs and dry them in a…
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Loft Ladders
Two young friends have lofts in their rooms and they were in need of a permanent way to access them. After visiting to take some photos and measurements, we decided on seventy-five degree ladders with treads about six inches deep and eighteen inches wide. We also planned to use 1-1/4 inch thick poplar, to match…
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Rob’s Music Studio
With my MIDI controller keyboard at the center of a temporary recording studio in the basement and my Kawai synthesizer in the living room, I just wasn’t playing the piano as much as I would have liked. Linda and I talked about this on our trip to Jack Lake in Canada in the late summer,…
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Katie’s Little Stools
Katie asked me if I could make two little stools, based on the one she already had. She also pointed me to a plan for them online. As always, well almost always, I created a 3D model of the stool from the plan, along with a few corrections and “improvements.” From the SketchUp model, I…
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Rob’s UPLIFT Standing Desk
The time had come to update the computer and its setup in my home office. A long overdue addition of RAM took my aging HP Pavilion tower from 8GB to 32GB and drastically improved its performance. Lesson learned and passed on. I was also having a little trouble seeing my dual monitor setup on their…
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Nevis’s Murphy Desk
Nevis, one of our young neighborhood friends, asked me if I would help him build a Murphy Desk to hang on the wall in his room. Of course, I said yes immediately. Doing joint projects in the workshop is one of my favorite things to do, and passing along a bit of passion and knowledge…