Project Information
This is my long time promise to the wife - storage cabinet for kitchen/household stuff. I built it this summer, but just recently added smaller unit on the side that fills the gap between the wall and main cabinet (have no idea why I didn't built it in the first place).
The cabinet is built out of pine, upper unit is dovetailed, bottom unit is dovetailed at the top and through-tenoned at the bottom. The doors are frame and panel construction, this was my first time with the doors, and I had lots of fun building them. No kidding, really enjoyed working on them.
For the smaller side unit I let my laziness play the game and built it with dowels, no dovetails or through tenons:
So maybe it's not as nice as larger cabinets, but the door for the smaller one turned out much more accurate, almost no gaps between frame parts.
Speaking about gaps. When I realized that there will be gaps between door frame parts (as a matter of compromise between building time and my skills level) I decides to exaggerate them in some way and put good chamfer on the connecting frame parts. I guess I did the right thing here: there are some gaps, but they do not look that ugly (well, at least for me):
Here's smaller unit ready for finish which was 4 coats of water-based poly btw:
One more bit: here's my 13yo son being tricked by his father into attaching doors hardware:
Ok, now as I lost one wall of my tiny shop to kitchenware storage - well, I fought back small side cabinet and the topmost shelf on the large one - I started thinking about building some kind of a substitute for it somewhere in our apartment in order to return full control on my sawdust cave
Also I have one more shop wall waiting for some storage facilities, and I promise I won't give it in for any kitchen stuff no more!
Thank you for looking!
The cabinet is built out of pine, upper unit is dovetailed, bottom unit is dovetailed at the top and through-tenoned at the bottom. The doors are frame and panel construction, this was my first time with the doors, and I had lots of fun building them. No kidding, really enjoyed working on them.
For the smaller side unit I let my laziness play the game and built it with dowels, no dovetails or through tenons:
So maybe it's not as nice as larger cabinets, but the door for the smaller one turned out much more accurate, almost no gaps between frame parts.
Speaking about gaps. When I realized that there will be gaps between door frame parts (as a matter of compromise between building time and my skills level) I decides to exaggerate them in some way and put good chamfer on the connecting frame parts. I guess I did the right thing here: there are some gaps, but they do not look that ugly (well, at least for me):
Here's smaller unit ready for finish which was 4 coats of water-based poly btw:
One more bit: here's my 13yo son being tricked by his father into attaching doors hardware:
Ok, now as I lost one wall of my tiny shop to kitchenware storage - well, I fought back small side cabinet and the topmost shelf on the large one - I started thinking about building some kind of a substitute for it somewhere in our apartment in order to return full control on my sawdust cave
Also I have one more shop wall waiting for some storage facilities, and I promise I won't give it in for any kitchen stuff no more!
Thank you for looking!