Cut, Shape, Assemble: Easy Woodworking Crafts for Small Spaces

by Boo Paterson

Step-by-step projects for all skill levels to spruce up your home, from bookends to breakfast trays to birdhouses.

With the right tools, guidance, and attitude, anyone can create beautiful and useful home goods from wood. In Cut, Shape, Assemble, award-winning artist Boo Paterson empowers you to craft with confidence and embark on your own creative journey. With information on tools and materials, clear instructions, full-color photography, and one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn blueprints, she guides you through easy-to-make projects that can be pulled together on the floor of a small apartment. All the designs in this book are stylish and modern, with everything a homeowner needs, like a knife block, plant stand, and even a table! Cutting boards, bookends, and serving platters make for wonderful additions to your home or great gifts for friends and family. Whether you’re a woodworking enthusiast, hobbyist crafter, or complete newcomer, this encouraging guide will inspire you to elevate your living space, your creativity, and your confidence as you experience the joy of making something of your own out of wood.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crafts

128 pages, Paperback

Published September 10, 2024

Reviews

[Ligaya · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this up from the library, thinking that it would be a great way to see what sorts of wood projects the author would present as easy to complete with just hand tools. Ohhhh, and this book just made me realize how much I appreciate my chop saw and palm sander... So, not the book for me at all but for those who don't have the access that I have, this could be a way in to wood working. Most projects seems relatively easy to do. Photos not as well-lit as should be. I think wood working magazines, though the projects are perfection, might be a better resource, though.