There’s a lot of ugly masquerading as lovely out there

Adventures in furniture restoration

Three carved legs plus one ready for carving. image author

My husband is an architectural woodturner. Which means, in essence, that he makes round things out of wood. He makes things like chair legs, porch posts, stair balusters, and decorative bits.

Much of what he does is for restoration projects. If you’re building a new home and putting in a staircase, you’ll…