Well for years I had always heard my mom saying how much she wished she had a corner cabinet to display some of her dishes in. Well now that I have graduated college and a place to build it I figured it would make a great birthday present for her. The face frame is all solid red oak, the bottom of the top half is oak plywood, the doors are solid oak with 1/4 inch oak plywood inserts, the back side pieces are birch plywood painted an off white color (so her dishes will stand out and not get lost in the wood). For the bottom halfs shelf and bottom I used a piece of sanded pine plywood because thats all I had on hand, I know oak would have looked nicer but its behind the doors and i was in a hurry to get done and thats all i had laying around. I made templates out of scrap 1/4 ply and had the local glass shop make me two glass shelves in wich i glued oak trim to the front of to dress it up. I used mortise and tenion joinery and pocket screws along with gluing and clamping. ALL fasteners are hidden. She loved it and it should last her years and years to come. Oh yeah i also put a led light in it so i will light up for her at night. Now i can not take all the credit because since i was in a time crunch i bought the plans and then built the cabinet. I did make some changes to the plans because I did not agree with some of their jointery methods. Any questions, comments, suggestions always welcome.

Well the final piece of the bedroom suit is in place. I wish I would have taken more construction picts but that just didn’t happen. It is built the same way as the dresser…heavy! I used the same horseshoes for the drawer handles as i did on the dresser to go with the entire bedroom suit. The wife now has plenty of storage, she has all the chest of drawers and half the dresser and I get …..you guessed it….the other half of the dresser. And she has already filled it all and needs more space. Well hope you enjoyed the entire bedroom suit. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Happy woodworking.

Well part 3 of the bedroom suit was two custom nightstands, one for each side of the headboard. They were pretty quick and simple to make and they just set up against the headboard so they can be moved if needed. They are functional and have enough space to set clock, drink, remote, and anything else on. I used 1×6 pine and all hidden jointery. I love having people look at them and ask how they are held together…lol

Well part 2 of the bedroom suit is here for your viewing. This is a custom headboard I designed and built. It has nice storage/shelves in it to keep pictures or whatever you like. I put a western cutout I had left over from something else on the back surface in the middle and it has horseshoes on the ends. It matches the dresser perfectly in color with the same red maghogany stain and western style. I used some crown molding and trim blocks in a sort of unusual configuration but it turned out very well.

Well I have always wanted to build my own bedroom suit. This dresser is part of it. My wife said she wanted something that was western styled and a bit rustic. After some thinking this is what I came up with. It is solid pine with roller drawer slides. I also used horse shoes for drawer pulls. I stained it with red mahagony stain, then put 2 coats of gloss polyurathane on the entire dresser, except for the top which received 3 coats. It is mostly 1×6 and 1×8 pine boards. I used 1/4 in panelling I had laying around for the drawer bottoms. It is all glued and screwed together…Oh did I mention it is SUPER HEAVY. I wanted to not to ever worry about setting anything to heavy on the top…..so it has a sold 2×4 framed construction….must be the engineer in me. Once it was completed and looking back on it, I am sure I could have lightened it up a bit. But hey if I ever need a large block to set a pickup on, I can always resort to this…. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.