Our bedroom has mostly antique-style wooden furniture in it except for a couple valets that are minimalist ultra-modern bent white pipes. They are fine in their place, but that place is no longer the room they're in. Wooden valets are available to buy, but I was looking for an excuse to use a barley twist in some project. For those unschooled in obscure woodworking/antique terminology, a barley twist is a post or spindle with a screw-thread-like topology. If you had a correctly-shaped nut, it would thread right on.
My current reliance on two valets steered the design in the direction of a double unit to achieve equivalent clothes-holding capacity. I omitted the normal pocket-contents shelf since I have another little table for that purpose, leaving the shoulder-emulating top portion and the hanging rod. The barley-twist sections of the legs were machine formed and hand-finished and the hangars were hand-carved, with other portions being turned. The valet was done in mahogany which, while it doesn't match any other furniture we have, at least conforms style and colour-wise. As usual, I have an unnecessary level of detail
here.
| Material: | Mahogany |
| Construction: | Turned and carved |
| Finish: | 3 coats Miniwax Wipe-on Poly, Clear Satin |
| Size: | 18" x 16" x 39" h |
| Time: | 150 hours |
| Done: | March 9, 2014 |
