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Countertop Project
Fractal burning + glow in the dark + furniture
My response to access to all types of information via the internet is generally to ignore it, wing it, and then after the fact realize how things could have been easier. My jewelry is resin work, paired with metal. For a recent gift, I got to play with wood. Wood is like butter! I think it’s a medium I would enjoy, but it could lead to competition with my husband, and I have no interest in going down that path at this time. Besides, this gift was for him.
Take one special walnut board, a tree cut down by his grandfather. Add to this the help of a local artist, met at a show. He did the fractal burning for me after a bit of research told me this was not the best DIY project for my stage of life (being a parent to an infant and a toddler). Fractal burning or Lichtenberg involves some pretty serious high voltage. It’s dangerous enough that the American Assn of Woodworkers banned the process at its events. Not that I want to put Jeremy in harm’s way, but man does this process leave a remarkable effect! It’s lightning, it’s tree roots, it’s electric.
Now is the part I could have made so much easier on myself. Now I know that I don’t have to be so careful with resin applications. If you’ll remember, mod metals have glow in the dark designs. I decided to take that, apply it to the board so that it would be cream in the daytime, blue at night. My design-savvy husband suggested the routed line which totally makes it. Fourteen or so finicking adjustments later (and hours of video that I shall spare you from), and the project is complete. A year ago, this space was open. Now, we have linen drawers and a hallway to “the master wing.” Adding this wall finally made the upstairs make sense. Decadent Red is the cabinet color, cabinet sourced from Studio 4.
