Large outdoor rustic wood tree branch trellis
Tag: Woodworking
Rustic table made from a Banyan tree.
The pineapple is of a smaller than average size making the table appear a little larger than it actually is.
Rustic woodworking tool shed
Here is a tool shed I built for my outdoor woodworking studio.
Rustic Wood Plant Stands at Etsy
2 Modern Wood Chairs
Here are 2 Rustic reclaimed wood bungie / rubber hose or whatever strechable rope / hose / bungie you can find that will support a big boned Walmart shopper and still be comfortable, chairs. The design was taken from an instructable plan from the instructable website which was taken from the book ‘PlyDesign: 73 Distinctive DIY Projects in Plywood (and other sheet goods)’. The chair plan from that book was designed by Wil Holman. Maybe from Mother Earth website. It might be an offshoot of the lanyard chair or loom chair. But, you know, I really don’t have time to do all the research. Anyway the red one looks just like the on from the forementioned places. The other one is a variation on the same idea. When it comes to comfort… Comfort is a relative term, is it not? However, both are pleasing to the eye, are they not? The wooden chairs were made from reclaimed, recycled and repurposed wood. I used a ‘discount’ rubber hose from the Harbor Freight store. The quality of the stuff that they sell can be somewhat subpar. This ‘subpar-ness’ of the “rubber-like” hose has translated into a slightly less than ideal level of comfort. The original chair plan calls for a recycled rubber hose that you clean. I imagine you should really, really clean a used air hose before you use it in your chair. To acquire this used air hose for this wood bungie chair, you need to persuade a mechanic to give you one that is broken. Which means he/she would have to have a broken one on hand. The other option would be to go “dumpster diving” behind auto mechanic shops. Both options seem incredably un-appealing to me. So, as you can see, my decision to buy one at Harbor Freight tool store was a “no brainer”. The other wood chair was made using clear flexible water piping bought at one of the big box hardware stores. The really cool pillows were made by Grandma Luthin.
Glass Tile Bench
A clean simple wood bench made from reclaimed 2×4’s. They are screwed and glued together. Then primed and painted white. The top of the bench was made from reclaimed glass tile samples. The bench goes fairly well in any decor. It’s the opposite of the usual garden decor and woodland decor to be found on bradluthin.com. It’s one of those furniture pieces that somehow got lost on the way to a particular body of work or portfolio. There are times when the wood bench will fit it. However, at the same time seems to be wildly out of place. This semi-whimsical wood and tile bench is minimalistic which is such a big fancy word. Actually I don’t think it is a real word since it comes up as misspelled and everyone knows that spell check is never wrong. Anyway, I’m suppose to write at least 300 words in each blog post for some reason. Therefore no one in their right mind would read all of this. But you’ve gotten this far, so you might as well finish. Getting back to the bench in question. I don’t remember making this semi-fine but fairly basic piece of furniture. The bench is about as comfortable as it looks, which is to say, not very much. The mosaic glass tile bench can and is often, if not all the time, being used as a table. Not so much a rustic tile bench but a not very sophisticated mosaic tile bench either. This interesting tile bench would be at home in any decor or no decor. It might make for a conversational piece. You can start and perhaps maintain a conversation with friends, relatives or perhaps a wandering Jehovah Witness. It might not make for a great conversation but an interesting one nonetheless. Then the conversation might turn into yet another conversation about other pieces of furniture. Whether they be of the minimal, maximal or rustic variety. The glass tile bench is painted white to go with any decor or perhaps an all white office like that of a newly purchased condo or perhaps a fashionable workplace. I have some rustic woodland furniture and accessories that I will post soon.