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While many 2x4 books offer pretty clunky furniture projects, it doesn?t have to be that way. Arts & Crafts furniture designs lend themselves to working with dimensional lumber fairly easily. Working with 1x, 2x and some plywood (all available in home center stores), many attractive furniture pieces (for indoors and outdoors) are not only possible, but simple. This book includes 20 Arts & Crafts inspired furniture and household pieces, built using dimensional lumber from home center stores. Joinery is simple (biscuits, dowels and screws) and require very limited woodworking tools and machinery.
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Anyone can learn the pros carpentry secrets thanks to Popular Mechanics and Rick Peters. Popular Mechanics covers everything: the equipment needed and how to use it; window and door casings; baseboards; all types of molding (including the always-challenging crown molding); wainscoting; and architectural trim like gingerbread. There are even insider tips on decorative molding, including how to dress up a plain door so it looks like it has raised panels. For owners wanting to add trim to their home, this book is the most valuable tool of all!
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Learn how the pros build and install cabinets and countertops (and how you can avoid some costly mistakes). These 17 articles from past issues of Fine Homebuilding magazine were written by builders and represent the hard-won knowledge of professionals who have learned from their mistakes.
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Mission-style furniture, with its straight lines and cut-out features, is in style again. This volume, a republication of the 1922 edition, is one of the best manual art instruction books of the early 1900s. Projects include decorative accessories, lamps, tables, chairs, a writing desk, and more. Includes diagrams, measurements and instructions. Perfect guide for parent-child workshop projects.
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Greene & Greene furniture is famous for its refined details and striking design. Yet craftsmen have had difficulty replicating these pieces due to their rarity. This book is the solution furniture makers have been looking for. Peart provides step-by-step projects that faithfully reproduce the essential, distinctive Greene & Greene details such as cloudlifts, leg indents, brackets, ebony plugs, and more. There is also background information of the Greene brothers and the Hall brothers. Peart is a professional furniture maker and teacher in Washington state.
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An amateur cabinetmaker, no matter how skillful, runs into a whole new set of problems when he or she takes on a large project-building all the cabinets for a kitchen or a study, for example-or ventures into cabinetmaking as a commercial venture. For these larger production projects, the issues of accurate and consistant measurement, standardization, effciency, and procedure become crucial This practical manual explains how to keep the work flowing and how to keep in a custom cabinet shop.