This is a funny sort of "coat hook" in the hallway. It's meant to hang
coat hangers from. It's out of the way in the corner, so nobody
bumps into it. Very handy for hanging the coat of a guest onto, especially
because my dad's house doesn't have a coat closet near the door like most
houses do. I don't have a nice out of the way corner in my house,
so I made some coat hooks instead.
I like the design of this toilet paper holder. It's much more satisfying to
load a roll into this one than it is with those fiddly spring loaded spindle
things that are almost everywhere else. It also makes a nice rumbling
noise on the wooden wall when you pull the paper as the spindle turns,
although that may or may not be considered a positive.
The paper towel holder uses a similar design. Also has a nice shelf above
it.
An under bed storage drawer. This is a good way of mounting the wheels
if you put them outside the drawer. Personally, wanting to optimize
for the last bit of space, I always make the drawer wider and put the
wheels on the inside of my
under bed storage drawers
Don't you hate those little plastic base / clamp thingys that are
supposed to hold the average swing-arm lamp? They never seem up to the job.
So for this lamp by the bed, my dad made a clamp to attach to the bed. The knob
on the clamp is attached to a dowel with a wooden thread cut into it, and it
threads into the clamp itself.
A vent at the top of a small greenhouse my parents built on the south
side of the workshop. The vent is a bit too
high to reach, but this
clever little lever arrangement makes it easy to operate the latch
on the door without having to stretch.
My dad has always smoked a pipe. He made this little pipe rack to store his pipes in.
Made specifically to fit those pipes. I like the way the right most compartment
is a little less deep to accommodate a contour on the wall.
My dad always turned his own knobs. He liked to use the core of some white pines for that. The knots in evergreens form this neat star pattern because they produce one new set of branches emerging from the same spot each year. Hardwood trees are a bit more random with how they branch out, so you never get a star pattern like that.
My dad says knobs like that only work in white pine. The different radial and tangential wood shrinkage typically causes a crack to form to the middle of the growth rings if the center of the wood is in the piece, but white pine is flexible enough that you can make a knob like that and have it not crack.
