DIY

Ultimate Firewood Rack
To get this discussion rolling, I will add a project I created last year....

By profession, I'm a geek... there, I said it. But when I do pry myself away from the computer, I like to spend time in my shop building rustic furniture and creating DIY projects for our home. Here's a recent example:

We use a woodstove to heat our home most of the winter and it works 24 hours a day keeping my family warm. Personally, I like everything about using a woodstove. I cut, split and stack my own firewood because I enjoy the exercise and I like the ritual of starting a fire and nursing it back to life in the morning from the overnight coals. I also happen to like saving thousands of dollars each year on LP gas.

We keep an ample supply of firewood just outside the door, but hauling it across the room to the woodstove was a chore. If you keep the home fire burning 24/7, you're talking about a lot of trips to the door. I had been pondering a solution to this dilemma for quite some time and finally hit upon an idea. I decided that the best way to address my problem was to increase the amount of wood I stored inside - and improve my method of firewood 'transportation'. I simply needed a bigger firewood rack - mounted on wheels! An oh yeah, it had to look good to please my wife's fastidious taste in furniture, and it would be nice to have a place to store matches and fire starters.

I call it my "Ultimate Firewood Rack - Butler - Storage - Time Saver - Furniture - Thing"!

If you are the DIY type and would like to build such a piece for your home, I have posted complete step-by-step plans with pictures and all kinds of tips and helpful hints on our website here.

In fact, you can even download a PDF file that gives all the dimensions and helpful tips... this way you don't have to take your computer out to the shop for your project. Enjoy!