This is built with recycled timber. I built a lot of these cabinets many different sizes colours and shapes. Here are a couple of photos.

Below you will see the makings of one of my arty pieces. I called it drink driving cabinet. Not that I drink and drive, I condemn it. There are too many lives lost to stupidity. Any way I had half meter flash flood through my factory in the Coorparoo floods and I lost a lot of photos of my furniture which I made over the years not to mention the damage to my tools equipment materials etc. No I wasn’t insured. Anyway they wouldn’t have paid me anyway.

The backbone of this piece is a steel frame 25x25mm box section. This is where I really started all my welding practice.  Then I lined the frame in recycled hoop pine and painted it. Then I gave it the distressed look and varnished it.

Just a box which I made for a client.

Below is a photo of one of many of my workshop steel tables. This one you could assemble and disassemble as I welded the nuts inside the box sections. I sheeted the top of them with ply wood.

When I lived in Japan I enjoyed going to the temples. Here is an extension of what grander that you feel when your in front of an object/ building/ furniture. I visited one of the biggest timber buildings in the world “Todaiji Temple” in Nara Japan. So I incorporated the same feeling in some of my pieces of furniture.

Believe it or not, this is made of recycled shipping crates and pallets.

It is a two piece book case, it needs to be.

Timber was salvaged by me at the old Ferny Grove tip which used to have a dairy farm on top of the hill next to it. I got a lot of beautiful wood which people saw no value in. Actually, some people at the time laughed at me but when they saw what I had made were then amazed.

I built this sofa; it was one of two. This was made in 1994 and upholstered by a friend. The frame is solid timber but the way the webbings, springs, stuffing and stitching were done is still good despite being 20 years old.