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Rethink Renovations- St. Louis Green Construction, Cabinetry, Furniture

Girl’s Bedroom Featuring Our Custom Green Eco-Friendly Urban Recycled Craft Table and Stool Set

 

These images show the process that Patrick goes through to hand make each stool and each piece of our furniture.

The pieces of each stool are dry fit together, hand planed and sanded; adjusted as many times as necessary for a snug fit.  The pieces are then permanently connected together with glue and clamped to dry.

The care and consideration even the smallest of pieces commands (like our stools here) is testament to the craftsmanship and pride we take in this process and the final product.

After dried and unclamped, the stools are ready to be sanded and finished.  The stools shown here are ready and waiting for their turn to be finished.  Each one gets three coats of a water based finish, however, we also have water based milk paints in several colors that would be done at this time too.

After passing off the shop drawings, Patrick (our woodworker) puts in the order for the hardwood we need from St. Charles, MO based WunderWoods.  The raw lumber is cut down to rough dimensions and delivered to Patrick’s south St. Louis shop.

We see the most beautiful woods come back to us and things get really moving at this point!  To know these beautiful pieces of hardwood will soon become pieces of our furniture is really exciting!

 

This picture shows our little stools in their infancy, all ready for  Patrick’s skilled hands to assemble and finish them.  Notice all the different species of woods we have here?  Truly amazing the varied hardwoods we have available in Missouri.

 

I wanted to post a few entries about the actual process of creating our furniture pieces.  Let’s take one of our darling little stools as an example, shall we.

The first stage, of course, is the design.  For our stools, we came up with a simple sketch of an idea, then tweaked the details with the help of our woodworker, and finally produced a set of shop drawings.  These are the blueprints that are used to build from; from the pieces to the joints to the way it all goes together.