Moving And Making All Open Source Furniture (No Ikea)

You can find out more about Maslow at https://www.MaslowCNC.com

You can watch the complete videos on making the chairs and desk at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJsnEdHoIqY
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQC5ZyzfDM&t=49s

Open Desk designs are freely available from https://www.OpenDesk.cc

The dish rack can be downloaded from:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2bcb3a22e1654035dd9b8115/w/2dc43ab2830a85c6bcea7f2f/e/5767cf70caf44bb255bc356e
And the coat rack can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/MaslowCNC/CommunityGarden/tree/master/Projects%20From%20Updates

Video Script:

Hey Everyone!

This week I want to talk about moving and making all my furniture with Maslow! I moved and in the past always lived with friends who
had furniture. When I moved I realized I had basically nothing except for the things I've made with Maslow so far. I decided to build
everything else I needed with Maslow. Specifically, I didn't want to go to Ikea. I set myself the challenge of furnishing my apartment for almost no money,
by building everything I needed from either existing Open Source designs or things I designed myself and made available.

Let's start with what I already had

Coat Rack:

One of the very first things I made with Maslow was this coat rack in the shape of the iconic Sutro Radio Tower which stands over my home city of
San Francisco. It is visible from almost everywhere in the city and to locals it's more of a symbol of the city than the Golden Gate Bridge. You can
buy a coat rack of it, but they are hundreds of dollars so I made my own. I've had it for about a year now and I still love it.

Olivia Desk and Slim Chair from Open Desk:

I built this Olivia Desk and Slim Chair from Open Desk for my old room. I did a blue/teal wood stain on the chair which I copied from the Open Desk website
and I liked the look so much I did the surface of the desk also. Open Desk is a design initiative based in London founded by some of the same people who
made Wiki House. They are a FANTASTIC resource for Open Source furniture designs run by some of the most pioneering people in the world of open making.
I made a video about making the table which has been watched over 100,000 times which is amazing.

Wine Rack:

This wine rack was actually the very first thing I made using Maslow. I was based on a cool design that I saw on Pintrest. I've been thinking about remaking
it because it's cut from really low quality and thin 1/2 CDX construction plywood and painted blue with spray paint. I made it from such low quality wood because
pre-kickstarter the Maslow project didn't have enough money to buy even a sheet of plywood. The blue spray paint was just a poor choice. It's kind of a sentimental
piece so we'll see if it actually ever gets re-made.

What I made to fit my space:

Cafe Table and Roxanne Chairs from Open Desk:

I needed a table, and I needed to make the most of very limited space. I went with this Cafe Table from Open Desk and I LOVE it. It has a brilliant shape
which is a cross between a triangle and a hexagon. The shape makes it possible to sit 2-5 people at a table with a very small footprint. When the table is
against the wall, it seats two. Pulled out from the wall a third person can be added to the remaining large side. That's about it for comfortably eating,
but for something like a board game night where not everyone needs a lot of table space it would be easy to seat two more people at the rounded off corners
making it a five person table.

Dish Rack:

Finally, when I moved in there was an ugly shelf above the sink made from some sort of particle board which was falling apart. Rather than replace it with a
new shelf, I decided to build a shelf/dish drying rack. The dishes will drain into the sink below and it frees up the area next to the sink for drying bigger
things like pots. I got the idea from an episode of the Podcast 99% invisible so thanks Roman Mars!

I made the table, chairs, and dish rack from 3/4 ACX plywood which is $29 a sheet around here. I was able to get both chairs out of one
sheet and the table and dish rack from another so my total cost for everything was around $60 which seems very fair to me especially for furniture that I love
and enjoyed making.

Have a great two weeks everyone, and for those of you in the United States happy Thanksgiving!