House projects

Chris has finally gotten his lifelong dream of having a workspace big enough for a workbench. Although our garage is huge, it's really only going to be usable until, oh, late October and then it'll just be too cold. We plan on eventually insulating the garage, which will also help keep the house warm, but until then Chris is trying to squeeze all this high priority projects in now. He's already built an incredibly stable workbench (not even a millimeter of wobble on that baby), a DVD case, and some stairs for Harper to use to climb onto the window seat. The stairs have since turned into a plant stand because Harper doesn't like them. I made a window seat cushion so she would be a little more comfortable on the seat, but I think I've used it more than she has (my longtime dream has been to have a window seat, so Harper and I have been competing over it). The cushion turned out much better than I expected. Pictures below! I stained and poly-whatevered the DVD case. It looks even better in person, unless you get real close and then you can see streaks. All in all, though, pretty good for our first projects, I think.