Just In Time for Friday

It's Friday! Let's talk about liquor! Again.

A long time ago, I explained to you (with photos!) our lame and very trashy liquor storage system, involving cardboard boxes and the floor. Classy. But I ALSO mentioned at that time that my dad, the amateur carpenter extraordinaire, was working on a liquor cabinet for us. A liquor cabinet built to my very own specifications. My very own specifications being, of course, approximate measurements and the request that I be able to get my damn bottles off the floor, already. To all other questions involving design, type of wood, color of stain, and so on, I deferred to my dad's superior knowledge on the subject of wood furniture. Basically, I told him to use his own judgment and I'd be happy with whatever he came up with.

So he did. And I am. Check THIS bad boy out, y'all:

Woah, daddio

I KNOW. Is that not the most awesome liquor cabinet ever? It fits perfectly in the space I wanted it in. It has 18 slots for wine bottles (most of which are being used for liquor bottles at the moment, but whatever), it has a shelf for bottles, it has those little slotty racks for wine glasses . . . it has inlay. Look:

LOVE

The inlay is that strip of darker wood that runs around the edge, and the "V" in the middle. Those are small strips of wood that he cut out and fit together into a groove. But not just ANY wood. That's OUR wood. It came from a dead black walnut tree on our property that we cut down a few years ago. A. thought my dad might want some of the wood for his woodworking, so we shipped him some. And he used some of it in our liquor cabinet. Isn't that COOL? Yes, it is.

Somehow, although I grew up in a house with many pieces of furniture made by my father, I never really appreciated what a skilled and talented carpenter he is. But he is. His status is officially being upgraded from amateur carpenter extraordinaire to just carpenter extraordinaire, because there ain't nothin' amateur about this liquor cabinet.

Thanks, Dad. You done good.