Custom Wood Projects

We've been in our house for five years and ever since we moved here I had a vision for how I wanted the laundry room and pantry to function.  It took us five years of saving, planning and agreeing to what we wanted done before we bit the bullet...and had someone else do it!  Ha!  We decided it'd get done much faster if Oz, the fellow that built the girls beds, did these projects for us.  And man, he did an awesome job!

When we first moved into our house, the cabinets were in front of the washer and dryer.  A couple of years ago, Terry and Tessie helped us move them to the other wall.  Since then the laundry room has kind of been a catch all.

But now, the laundry room has an awesome space for the kids shoes and bags.  It has extra shelves above the bench.  The wood top that the washer and dryer sat on is now butcher block to match the bench and counter top.  It has already helped immensely with the shoe explosion that was our living room.  I can't wait for school to start to see how much it helps to keep the back packs out of the dining room!

I've always loved the pantry in this house.  SO MUCH ROOM!  But also so much room for making it better.  The shelves were not very sturdy and it seemed like there was a lot of empty, wasted space.

And now, we have a butler's pantry!  Dad helped add a plug so now all our appliances can sit on the counter top and be used!  Yeah for not having to haul the grill cheese maker to the kitchen all the time!!  I really like how he redid the canned good shelves and stained them to match the countertop.  And to top it off, our little fridge fit nicely under the counter, tucked away!

Oz also helped us redo our dining room.  I really had a hard time with this room because I LOVED my table.  But a 4 ft round table did not give us enough space as a family of 6 to all eat together.  And so we did some brainstorming and came up with an idea for creating a dog kennel window bench with a new farm house table.

Oz was so patient and did such an awesome job on this project.  I was a little picky about not wanting cross pieces or lots of support pieces b/c of knocked toddler heads and ability to clean.  And he did an awesome job of recreating the look of the wood on the table top.  And the dog kennel...AMAZING!  The dogs have so much more room and it it's much easier to keep clean.  Not to mention more seating space and walking space too!

The only things we have left to do to declare these projects done is the replace the dining room chandler with a pot light and the garage door so it will open to the left instead of the right.  Yay for organization, functionality and storage!!!