Launching a new category here: Do-It-Yourself. Starting from a simple woodworking project, this is how to make a baby’s changing table.
1. You create/obtain some beautiful drawings (here made at the back of an envelope in a cafeteria):
2.You get some wood (I used some planed sawn timber and hard MDF plate that I got from the local Bauhaus store).
3. You collect the tools needed and start the job (a good workbench is a nice element in this).
4. Getting the rounded edges can even be done with the help of some round jar covers.
5. Then just some careful application of coping saw and file…
6. Drill can also help as a mechanical screwdriver, but that tool is not necessary.
7. I used screws and then glue to make the construction solid.
8. Grinding needs to be done both before application of paint, as well as between paint layers to get an even surface.
9. If there is too windy outside you might need to find an inside place to do the finishing layer of paint.
10. One of the finishing touches: these rubber pieces help to stop and secure the changing table to position.
11. There you are: place the foam mattress in position, and the changing table is ready.
Nice! and well done!!!
May I ask, how long does it take you this achievment? And does the baby already test it? (at the end is your end cusstomer right?! ) 😉
I wonder what are you going to do with a table like that? Is there something to congratulate about? 😀
Heh, no congratulations (yet) — lets talk about an advance warning or something like that. 😉 Carolina: I would say that there was 5-7 hours of work, but of course you need to count in also the time of paint drying etc.
Well, good luck then! It really changes your life. Mine approach 10.
You are good with the tools 😉 but after understand clearly the context of all this, I think it should be highlighted that perhaps in this “DIY” section might show how things have a value, not for what it costs (in time or money or effort or knowledge) but for their own meaning.