I installed the blog two years ago (well just over two years really – I just paid the bill for another two years) and as you can see, there isn’t anything here!

That’s about to change as I pick up from where I left off and with the help of Kate Lawrence (www.indigocat.net) the website is finally being built.  I’ve been using Facebook a bit – https://www.facebook.com/kurrajongfarmcollection – but it’s time to get back to blogging.  I wanted to talk about building furniture.

You know, pieces often suggest themselves to me when I look at the timber.  Building furniture out of recycled timber is not always easy.  Unlike timber bought from the timber yard, recycled timber isn’t always the same width, or length, or thickness, or even the same type of wood.  If you make a mistake you can be in big trouble . . .

And often the pieces of wood aren’t even straight.  Recycled wood can be cupped, warped, bowed, twisted . . .  I have five thick boards clamped together sitting on the water tank in the weather with weight on them to try to take the twist out of them.  So instead of starting with a table, I often start with a piece of wood.

But sometimes ideas just arrive and then I find the timber that will work.  One such is the idea for a stool.  Who said stools have to have four legs?  Or even three?  Couldn’t we get by with two if it was stable?  Of course and this was inspired by the good old fashioned step ladder.

This one was taken from Etsy but we have one here on the farm, an old timber one like this.  Anyway, these have only two legs, the second fold out set are just the brace to stop it falling over and you can sit on them in perfect safety.  So how about a permanent brace?  Like this?

More to come . . .