Not as bad as cheating on your spouse mind you, but still...
I was going to make my wife some various mission/arts and crafts type furniture after I finish my kitchen, but then this stuff came up on Craigslist and I couldn't pass it up. I estimate I got it at 25-30% of retail. I'm not even sure I could buy the wood for what I paid for this set. It's pretty well constructed. Dovetailed drawers front and back. The drawers are cedar. There are only a few boards that aren't *exactly* quartersawn oak. They are clearly flat sawn, but ok I can live with that. The person I bought it from still had the catalog from Noble Furniture (now out of business) and it says it's all mortise and tenon construction. All the sides of the case pieces are frame and panel. There is also a large mirror not shown.
My only two complaints are the lack of corbels on the case pieces (the bed has them) and the cheesy wood filler in the dovetails (see picture next post). I do like how the sides step in slightly from the fronts and the backside of the drawer front is sanded with a little round off. I would make final fitting of the drawer fairly easy (see picture next post).
Well on the bright side, I get to move onto those Morris Chairs sooner!
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