Our daughter, Donna and her husband Mark, were flooded out of their home in Katy, Texas by Hurricane Harvey. My husband, Bill, built this cabinet for them after everything on the first floor was destroyed by flood water.
After I designed it on paper, we searched an antique store to find the parts. The double bank of drawers on each side are parts of two different treadle sewing machines. Positioned on a platform with space for a "cubby" in the center, a wooden wall hanging was sized to fit as a door in the middle. Four legs from a home supple store were attached to the bottom platform board. Voila, a new piece of furniture. After we took it to Texas, Mark added more. He removed the legs and mounted the cabinet on their iron sewing machine base whose upper wooden part had been destroyed by all that water. Beautiful. Mark, if you're reading this, please post a picture of the cabinet with the authentic treadle base on my Facebook page.
(He did)
If you need a new cabinet, desk, chest or other furniture, what might you use to create it? If you already have made one, please post it on my Facebook page. Or, make a mock-up and use it as a discussion at home or in class.
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