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A Dining Room Buffet for Gretchen & Brian - Nov 2008
11/20/2008
Gretchen and Brian found a buffet on the Crate & Barrel website they really wanted but it was outside their budget. So they asked dear old Dad to build it. Sure, it looked like a nice challenge so I said OK and then went out and broke my wrist playing tennis.
Slideshow: Building a Buffet

There were many steps to constructing this buffet. It took 5 weeks of almost full-time work (7 days a week for the last 2 weeks). We wanted to deliver it when we visited Gretchen and Brian for their baby shower in early November. We made it with a day to spare.

We follow the progress as the various pieces are cut out, glued, stained and finished.

It has

  • 3 fixed shelves,
  • 3 pull-out shelves,
  • 3 drawers and
  • 2 doors.

The drawer faces and doors are plywood with strips of stained mahogany inlaid in random patterns.

 

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