First Project - desk

**Jill** · 27th January 2006, 12:09 AM

Hi all,

Here is the desk our daughter just built as her first furniture project. It will be used for school, art, tech. drawing & computer (later). She designed & built it herself, with a couple of ideas from me thrown in, plus a bit of hand. Sorry, no darksiding, but we'll be working on that later on when we finish the house! The timber was all reject/2nd grade jarrah, so there was lots of prep. work with thicknessing, etc. Finish is Tung Oil (Feast Watson). It may look a bit patchy in the pics, as the last coat was still half wet then. Drawers are solid jarrah (floor boards thicknessed to take the flooring grooves off the backs, plus to tidy up the fronts). The two bottom drawers are filing cabinets. The centre section lifts up to sit at 3 different angles, and yet more floorboards form a recess under that to house her art materials.

Not most people's style, probably, but original & just what she wanted.

Cheers,

Jill

**Jill** · 27th January 2006, 12:12 AM

....and another couple of details. She did really well with every part of the project, esp. for a 13 y.o.

Cheers,

Jill

**Lignum** · 27th January 2006, 12:13 AM

Jill

Looks like talent runs deep in your family. Always enjoy looking at the pics you post. Well done to your daughter

**Shedhand** · 27th January 2006, 12:26 AM

In a word..excellent...

A greeny to pass on to your talented young lady...
Cheers

**Richardwoodhead** · 27th January 2006, 07:58 AM

Very impressive. I like it a lot. Looks like you rusticated many of the edges by creating undulations. And looks like a bush block in the southwest. In which general area are you located?

Richard

**oges** · 27th January 2006, 08:18 AM

wowee, I may aswell pack up my tools and give up

Great work on the design and construction and the little finishing touches, very very nice.

**DPB** · 27th January 2006, 08:38 AM

Nice looking project, and two attractive ladies.

**Wongo** · 27th January 2006, 08:40 AM

Wow Jill how goods that?

**RufflyRustic** · 27th January 2006, 09:08 AM

Hi Jill,

Amazing work! So lovely to see you both in the photos. Daughter's Desk is beautiful, looks very well made and I bet it will last pretty much forever.

Well Done!

Cheers
Wendy

**Auld Bassoon** · 27th January 2006, 09:12 AM

Hi Jill,

That desk looks pretty good from here

Good to see that otherwise "reject" timber has been so usefully employed.

**9Fingers** · 27th January 2006, 09:12 AM

I love the horse shoes, nice touch.

**Fella** · 27th January 2006, 09:25 AM

looks great....i want one

. were we supposed to be looking at the ladies or the desk?
It’s good to see some personal touches added to your project. Good design too.

thanks for sharing

**Jill** · 27th January 2006, 10:55 AM

Thanks everyone! Danita will be glad of the feedback, too & will respond when she reads them, no doubt.

Her next projects are: her built-ins (all these in jarrah - starting on that today, now that she fin. her desk last night!!!), then a double four-poster bed (down the track a bit), quilt cupboard to store the quilts she has made/will make (we go for multi-skilling here!), and a trunk. For the bed posts, she wants 4x4's.....CHUNKY, with the same undulating edges....I joked with her that she just wants breakfast in bed....when her bed falls through the floor and lands in the kitchen below! Over the canopy frame will be delicate light gold - cream sheer drapes with silk roses entwined around (details for the ladies), and she'll make the doona cover to match - with silk ribbon embroidery. She'll be mixing the mortar for our limestone laying when we start that soon, so will build the other projects after that - when we have a WORKSHOP!!!

Thanks again,

Jill

**silentC** · 27th January 2006, 11:41 AM

She did really well with every part of the project

Agreed. Top job. Hope the memory of making it kicks in when she's sick of sitting at it staring at the textbooks!

**dai sensei** · 27th January 2006, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Jill

She did really well with every part of the project, esp. for a 13 y.o.

Certainly has done exceptionally well. Certainly has the talents of someone older. Love the design, timber and finish.

Cheers

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