The matching piece to the crib, this one is also made of white oak finished with Rubio Monocoat Smoke. The design was to have a matching solid base and rectangular legs to the crib, and then framed side panels, flush drawers, and a solid top with a removable diaper changing station.

Since it wasn’t clear I was going to hit my deadline (Maddy’s due date) I built the changing table station first, knowing we could always use it on another piece of furniture in the short term. Then I started on the dresser, building the base (1.5 inch oak) and legs (2 inch) followed by the side panels (3/4 inch). The rest of the internal structure was plywood. Finally I built the top (3/4 inch oak) and assembled the whole carcass together. Then I put solid oak fronts on each of the plywood pieces, and finished the whole thing in Monocoat Smoke.

With that done I built and installed each of the drawers and then cut all the drawer fronts (each solid 3/4 oak). I dry fit the fronts and thought to myself “huh, this looks pretty good but is it too plain?” I wondered if I could do something a little more unique, so I started playing around with some kind of a wave design across the drawers as a nod to the ocean theme of the nursery. After playing with many many different wave parameters (reaching back to my EE education for things like wavelength and amplitude), I came up with a design we liked with three wavy lines across the top drawers, and used the Shaper Origin with a 3/4 inch round nose box bit to cut them into the drawers.

Finally, I sanded and finished the fronts, added some aged brass hardware, and installed them.

We love how it came out and though we (or Maddy) may not like the wave design anymore years down the road, drawer fronts are easy enough to replace!