I could not believe when our husband told me he found his old handmade furniture his father made for him; I thought it was going to look cheesy, even though I was pleasantly surprised… The handmade furniture was child-size & it was charming.
I told him I could not wait to redo the handmade furniture so our kid could get some use out it.
There was a table with 4 matching chairs. His father had also built a matching buffet & a small root coors table. I didn’t know his father was a woodtoiling, which completely baffled me. Had I known his father was an accomplished furniture maker, I would have had him build a rocking for me. I had wanted one for quite some time. I once hinted that I would care about a wooden rocking chair when I was pregnant with our daughter, even though I never got one. I now had wooden rocking chair, however it was a child-size wooden rocking chair, then when our kid got home from pre-school, the people I was with and I had the handmade furniture set up in the spare room. The room was much bigger than the one he had been sleeping in. We left his kitchen in his room, however took his child’s dining room into the other room & set up the handmade furniture, he cried when he thought his dining room was stolen, however the people I was with and I could not keep his out of his own little apartment, which is what he called his new standing room. We often had pop in his standing room & enjoyed pretending while standing around on his wood table & chairs. The handmade child-size furniture was a charming birthday present for our boy.