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Making a ‘Floating’ Secret Drawer

I recently completed two bedside I tables for a visitor’s bedroom at home. The last visitors, my son and his wife, admired the previous tables so much that they adopted them for their home! I do love it when that happens – these days, after 30 years of filling our house with furniture, I continue to build for family and friends. It is one of life’s pleasures. Anyway, I got to make them again.

The design

My preference is for minimalistic furniture. This is not simple furniture by any means, but rather that the elements are reduced to essentials. And this makes for deceptively simple furniture which is often a great deal more work to do. In this case, less really is

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