Starting a New Lab

It's time to change and organizing a new home workshop. And the starting point is recovering a couple of old furnitures. The result is brilliant!

Winter 2017

For years I carried on with a sluggish home work shop, but this year I've decided: this year I have to start with something new.
So I decided to clean up everything and organize a new home workshop. First off some furnitures are necessary, and since I have some old pieces, then why not recovering them instead of making them to end up in a landfill?
One is a very old shelf cabinet, and the other one is an old changing table, made with a nice steel frame but with horrible drawers.

Old changing table — The old changing table before transformation.

Let's begin

After having removed the side panels, the first thing to do is to cut the new panels out from two spruce boards. I don't have a table saw so I use alternative methods either with a circular saw or with a jig saw.

For the top I've reclaimed a scrap piece from the countertop of the kitchen that I saved for a day like this one, it is beautiful piece of sessile oak or also known as durmast oak.

For the face and bottom of the drawers I bought some spruce boards already cut to measure.

changing table frame — Changing table frame while attaching the countertop

changing table sides — Attaching the sides to the former changing table

The drawers are made joining together the sides previously cut. I've drilled two holes and two bores in square per each corner. And the sides are kept together by dowels, animal glue and screws.

Drawers side — Drawers before front panel is attached

Here you can watch the video full of details:

Second part is about an old cabinet. This is a nice piece of old industrial office furniture that I recovered from the old stuff my father in law left us before he passed away. The piece was in poor conditions, but after the restoration it went really good.
Follow the whole video for details:

Cabinet restoration — Watch video about the cabinet restoration

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