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inital design

I need a coat locker near the front the door for the kids to throw their shoes, coats, and back packs in when they get home from school. Right now they just pile it all up in a big pile behind the door.

Here are some initial concepts. Not finished but close. I'm not sure if I want to put some blocking in between the dividers or just go with biscuits or dowels through the shelves and into the dividers.

The locker is around 66 inches high, 12 inches deep, and almost 40 inches wide.


The similar colored pieces are either identical or mirrors. The joinery is being kept simple on purpose to facilitate quick and easy construction.


here's the sketchup model so far
 
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final design



The box is made out of 1/2 inch plywood throughout with 1/4 by 3/4 hardwood edging. The similar colored pieces are either identical or mirrors. All of the joinery is either dados for the box or half lap for the edging.



The edging is 1/4 inch thick hardwood edging instead of veneer edge banding. The hardwood will stand up to much more abuse as shoes are thrown in on a daily basis and it will give a small bit of stiffness to the 1/2 inch ply of the box.



I liked the rounded top on the original design but since I'm using 1/4 inch thick edge banding I would need to steam bend the edging to curve around the rounded top. In this case mitered corners serve and are much easier to create.



And again here is the sketchup model to date. I will be adding final dimension and a cutlist and layout.
 
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