We designed and built these twin dry-erase workbenches for our friends Jen and Tiffany’s new shop Miracle Thieves. The shop is on the smaller side but they wanted two large sturdy tables they could run all sorts of workshops on. The challenge was to build big tables that feel light and don’t take over the space. The legs and rails are cedar, 3/4″ fir ply wood top finished with 1/8″ opaque white acrylic. Not only does the acrylic top keep it bright but it also doubles as a dry erase board.
mocking up the assembly
trimming the top
milk stain
twin tables
in situ
The image above depicts the humble beginnings of our bedroom. Other than the turquoise pillow and the flooring-sample-turned-headboard, there wasn’t much colour or personality. So we got to work on making the bedroom a proper representation of who we are.
We decided to install a “memorabilia wall” above our headboard. It was a good use of stuff that generally collects dust under beds, in closets or in forgotten boxes.
My wonderful Auntie Nely, visiting from the Philippines, was so kind to make us this quilt to help warm our home. The quilt, combined with the golden glow from our trash-to-treasure lanterns, gave the room the burst of colour it needed.
We’re happy to start and end our days here.
The other day I got off work and noticed a number of these wooden candle lanterns on the curb waiting for their ride to the landfill. So I took them… of course.
Our bedroom has boring track lighting above the bed and to my luck, the wooden lanterns happened to sandwich perfectly between the lighting case and the track.
I gold-leafed the inside rim of the lanterns, which made them look like intentional lighting treatments as opposed to discarded lanterns.
Et voila:
Someone’s trash turned out to be just what our bedroom needed.
Relative Space showroom purged thousands of tiny carpet samples. We claimed all of them – because, why not? – and brainstormed about what we would do with thousands of tiny carpet samples… possibly a pixel inspired area rug?
We took a break from our bike ride to Port Credit to sit on a giant log. We never made it to our final destination but instead got sucked into spontaneous nature art-ing. As we were fixated on making the giant log barf sticks, a man walked by, looked at our work in progress and said “thanks”. Charmed.
This is the inaugural manifestation of the LogBarfSticks series.
There was the sweetest old man and his grandson a few metres away who were also getting their nature art-ing on. This was their masterpiece.
I’m curious to see how either of our installations will “evolve” over time.
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Now get outside, get inspired and trip out on some nature.
