McCormick Dreaming

Beadboard from the ceiling in an upstairs bedroom in the old Dave Appel house on Willow Creek, combined with baseboard from an abandoned homestead on Commission Creek, now form the case and door frames of the McCormick Dreaming cabinet. Walnut, stored in the stacks for twenty years, is used for the cabinet base, door panels, and top. A mysterious McCormick-Deering/International Harvester part has been used to shape and bracket the top. Agitator fingers from an International planter plate work as door pulls. And a section of ’35 Chevy door panel, painted with pink milk paint and “altered” with a ball-peen hammer, is the “odd man out” door panel.