I'm setting up a home office to work out of as a medical transcriptionist. I have the wood (oak) to build a computer desk with a hutch and a matching bookcase. I need a good sized one to hold everything. Where can I get some woodworking plans to build this type desk, hutch, and bookcase?
So I've been sanding a big built in cabinet-basically like a dining room hutch that used to be in our kitchen. It's so old it has the flour and sugar bins built in (our house was built in 1913). My question is-if I want to stain it again do I have to sand it down to pristine wood or can I simply remove the top layers of the old stain? Right now there is a shade difference between areas that have been sanded with a power sander and the areas I have had to do by hand. We plan on staining it really dark, so I'm wondering if it will take and if there will be a huge color difference if I don't have it all matching before we start staining. I don't mind if it ends up having some "character," but I don't want it to look horrible. Any advice would be welcome!
*Oh, and the areas I have done by hand "feel" like wood now, but its the color difference I was wondering about.
I'm setting up a home office to work out of as a medical transcriptionist. I have the wood (oak) to build a computer desk with a hutch and a matching bookcase. I need a good sized one to hold everything. Where can I get some woodworking plans to build this type desk, hutch, and bookcase?