Housewares

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May 09

Teacup Rack

One random morning a few years ago, I got the itch to build something. My wife has a fetish for teacups, but didn’t have a place to put them. I had recently made her a corner cabinet to display her wedding china and tea service sets, and I thought I’d make something to show off her favorite teacups. We really didn’t have much spare room in our cramped DC apartment, but we had a small area between the pantry and laundry doors in the kitchen. I jotted down this design and got her to sign off on it:

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If I remember correctly, I had some leftover 1x3s and some beadboard from previous projects, so I really only had to buy some molding and hardware.

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May 09

Rotary Phone

I mentioned the other day that no one ever notices the old safe we use as a side table in our den. The opposite is true of our rotary phone:

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May 09

Safe Side Table

When my grandfather’s pharmacy was razed in the late ’80s, my family wound up with his old office safe:

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It was locked and no one could remember the combination. Fortunately the door was open and I was able to work out the combination by looking through a pinhole in the rear of the lock mechanism while rotating the dial. From then on, it was my safe.

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