What would Sherlock Holmes think?

    My favourite deductive reasoner is Sherlock Holmes, in fact I was a bit of a Holmes geek back when you had to remember things rather than just quickly Google them.
  
   Holmes was not a wood worker but  he knew the various trades well, and went undercover as a plumber and a horse groom in the course of his adventures. No doubt then he knew the tell tale signs of a woodworker's home. 
  
   Should he one day come to our house he will see on the front porch a wooden mat at the door and oak hand railings as you come up the steps.  If he looked into the garage he would see a rack/shelf unit for recycling bins, a landing and steps to get into the house from the garage as well as two tool boxes, made years ago and still standing the test of time.
   
   Once inside, a mirror on the wall is made from pine and the coat rack featuring Shaker pegs are in the mud room.  The front  entrance features a stout bench and the bowl for keys and loose change in one of my carved bowls that we call the "peanut bowl".

  A quick glace into the kitchen shows cutting boards and at one end a large rolling kitchen island, wood with a marble top. In the living room are my sofa table and a footstool/magazine storage unit. The clock in the bedroom was made for my Grandmother, since passed and there is another mirror.  Our powder room has been featured before so it is my woodwork and Eva's tile work. The on-suite bathroom has a clothes rack designed for that specific space, Eva's design my construction...etc..etc..etc.

   Our house is filled with boxes for storage or jewelry, various foot stools as well as chip carved coasters and trivets with tile inlay. Our Grandson's toys are wood and so is his crib.  The list goes on and on, in fact the desk on which I am working was made by my wife many years ago.  Lets face it how many guys get to marry a woman that has her own power tools? Lately Eva's efforts have gone into tile work.  She did the tile work in two bathrooms and our kitchen.

   Now... would Holmes say "obviously Watson this is the domestic abode of a woodworker", or would he say,"aha we have clearly stumbled upon a cheapskate." 

  It is my hope to one day raise my quality of work to that of craftsman, from its current level of DIY woodworker.  It would be nice to think that one day Sherlock Holmes would say,      " Watson, observe, we are in the home of  skilled craftsmen. This space is filled with beautiful and functional objects that have been created and collected with care."

   Holmes will never be here to say that, but Eva and I still aspire to have that thought pass through the minds of our guests when they visit.