So I got my first apartment on lock down finally. Real excited to be moving into my own place. Its really nice, but a little pricier and therefore I'm trying to save money every way I can in furnishing. There are some obvious expenses that be cut down with this apartment. Like for me, transportation costs will be down, considering my apartment is directly on Chicago's "el" train. And other things like cable television since neither my roommate nor I watch much TV. (other than sports center.) But I figured, screw Craigs List, "I'm building my own furniture."
So I got in contact with some of my engineer friends that had access to buildings with proper supplies, and I've been spending the past couple weekends building furniture. I've been working on coffee tables, bedside-tables, bookshelves, and other shit... I just finished my first piece last night, it was all dried from stain and polyurthane this morning so I was pretty pumped.
Here's how the first piece ended up, it could either be a coffee table or a TV stand with a shelf for a DVD player or something, its pretty tall...
Haha I guess its not all that much, but building your own furniture is like preparing your own three-course meal. Its real rewarding, and hey, rather than spending 15 bucks on craigs-list for a dirty old coffee table, this ran at a whopping total of $8.
So, I'm expanding my work now I think to Kitchen tables, another coffee table that'll look like this and maybe even a chair or two? crazy. Who knows? I doubt a chair will be comfortable at all, but shit if I built it... I'll sit in it. four-show.
Special thanks to Slav, and Duenser. (Without Slav there would be no stain, a couple of the nails would be missing and the piece would lack its overall charm. Without Duenser I wouldn't have been able to get into Ford to steal a bunch of shit lolz jk! jk! ... ... maybe)
