I Built a Dresser in our Backyard
One of the surprising quirks of my life is that I've been making furniture pretty much all of the adult part of that life. I think the first piece was a bed platform I built for a design class in 1983. Over the years simple bookcases became whole libraries of shelving and then a coffee table showed up and eventually wardrobes and sideboards too. Quite a few pieces of furniture in our house I actually made. I did it with the skills of a properties artisan who built a lot of theatre furniture in a hurry. I built furniture that was durable and looked like "real furniture" from 15 feet away. There were sheets of plywood and screws involved. It's the kind of furniture when scratched, you might touch it up with a Sharpie. I have actually done that. I have some skills, but they're incomplete and "Furniture As Art" just makes me feel inadequate and I don't know where to set my drink on it. I'm not a "furniture maker" like some centerfo...
