{"id":552,"date":"2025-10-01T11:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/?p=552"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:13:14","slug":"woodwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/woodwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I&#8217;m a primary \/ nursery teacher these days, which has been a bit of a trek, but I&#8217;ve got my qualification and a good first year under my belt, and also plenty of time to potter in my woodshed, hence these pieces. First up is a custom bookshelf for a nursery, as their existing one was an extremely curious design that <em>couldn&#8217;t hold books<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104837681-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104837681-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104837681-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104837681-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104837681-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104837681-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104827315-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104827315-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104827315-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104827315-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104827315-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20240115_104827315-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sides are plywood, uprights are MDF sheet, the letter boards are cannibalized from the original and the base is pine board. Painted the whole thing white with coloured dots, and oh my gosh it was lovely seeing the kids raid it when it was finished and full of books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m a primary \/ nursery teacher these days, which has been a bit of a trek, but I&#8217;ve got my qualification and a good first year under my belt, and also plenty of time to potter in my woodshed, hence these pieces. First up is a custom bookshelf for a nursery, as their existing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/woodwork\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woodwork<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-woodwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryansthomason.com\/newsandnoise\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}