Reclaimed Wood

In this day and age, old worn or broken things are often tossed away. Some of them have found their way into Peter’s shop where they are adopted or adapted in whole or in part into delightful new forms. There is often beauty hidden under the grime and detritus of years and even centuries of neglect.  Peter has found wonderful boards drifting in the sea, in dumpsters, at our local transfer station, or left in a heap under an old barn. Some new materials appear in the form of short ends and scraps from larger projects. With simple tools the materials are freed and re-combined for a new purpose.

None of these items are perfect or precious but are instead meant to be used and enjoyed.

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Six Board Chest

This chest is hand built from pine boards recovered from an old house. The style is copied from an antique blanket chest.

See more images and details about making the chest.

Antique American Walnut Gate-leg Drop-leaf Table

This table is substantially reconstructed from a broken heap of parts found at the local household waste transfer station swap shop.

See more photos and details about the work to replace the shattered joints.

Travel Cases

These simple pine boxes are the structural interiors recovered from antique coach-top travel cases that were once covered in leather and lined with paper.

Porch Table

This table was found at the transfer station swap shop in several parts, paint peeling, soaking wet, and missing its drawer. It is reconstructed and finished with milk paint and coated with polyurethane. The top is delightfully warped!

High Chair

Hand crafted child’s highchair, sturdy and stable

Child’s Project Table

This solid cherry table was made by Peter about fifty years ago. It has withstood the test of children and grandchildren. It’s ready for another fifty.

Child’s Cherry Heart Stool

Solid Cherry stool that matches the project table above. Same age, matching wood.

Child’s Maple Heart Stool

Solid Maple stool made by Peter nerly 50 years ago.

Instrument Case

This box was once a storage case for some sort of instrument. Repaired and coated with milk paint.