Pat Germain
05-26-2007, 1:30 PM
Now that I'm getting my shop together, my wife has been voicing requests for what she'd like me to build. No problem there. She says she wants some low and short bookcases and things to hold small baskets and such. Check.
But we have a bizarre problem here. My wife keeps pointing to particle board and plastic laminate "things" at Wal-Mart and saying, "Build me one of those". Or, she points to something of bamboo and balsa wood stapled together at Linens & Things and says, "Why can't you build that?".
I tried explaining those aren't the kinds of things I want to build. "Too hard for you?" she says. I emphatically protest and get, "Oh, you're too good to build something like this?" :rolleyes:
It seems my lovely wife grew up in a house where every furniture item was the cheapest thing available at K-Mart. I bought her a pretty nice, solid wood dining set a few years ago and she was tickled pink. We also have a nice, knotty pine bedroom set. I'm not ready to build a dining room set or bedroom set, but perhaps Dear Wife doesn't understand there are things in-between the dining set and particle board boxes.
So here I am in project bizarro. Perhaps I should start with some nice cutting boards. ;)
But we have a bizarre problem here. My wife keeps pointing to particle board and plastic laminate "things" at Wal-Mart and saying, "Build me one of those". Or, she points to something of bamboo and balsa wood stapled together at Linens & Things and says, "Why can't you build that?".
I tried explaining those aren't the kinds of things I want to build. "Too hard for you?" she says. I emphatically protest and get, "Oh, you're too good to build something like this?" :rolleyes:
It seems my lovely wife grew up in a house where every furniture item was the cheapest thing available at K-Mart. I bought her a pretty nice, solid wood dining set a few years ago and she was tickled pink. We also have a nice, knotty pine bedroom set. I'm not ready to build a dining room set or bedroom set, but perhaps Dear Wife doesn't understand there are things in-between the dining set and particle board boxes.
So here I am in project bizarro. Perhaps I should start with some nice cutting boards. ;)