Baby Furniture

As the baby approaches I've decided to build some more furniture for him. This is mainly because what you can get in the shops is a. horribly overpriced and b. crap.

Instead of buying a special "changing table" we bought a cheap 2nd hand set of drawers from fleeBay.

These got pulled completely apart, sanded, glued and put back together (so now it's not wobbly and cheap feeling), the outside got varnished, the drawers were done in acrylic paint, and the insides laid out with contact. Polina still has to do some funky coloured knobs.

Before to these drawers are now clean.

PS. The extra holes on the front of the "arms" of the changing mat area are not an accident, they're there in case we ever have to put the drawers in such a way that the changing mat cannot hang off the back. It simply unscrews, flips over and the end piece gets swapped to the other side of the arms - you can't buy that in a shop either ;)

I've also started building a cradle and a cot, here the sides of the cradle (damn fiddly work cutting and sanding all those little bits of wood) and the base of the cot. You can also see the beginnings of a small set of shelves that will fit behind the drawers under the changing mat area.