Built-In Dresser

That’s pretty cool! Great use of space!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Good use of dead space, no loss of floor space and making Mom Happy! Win, win, win situation! Thanks for posting.

Tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

That is a really clever use of space. Your joinery is excellent – beautiful dovetails and contrast. I really like this project.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Neat idea! That maple looks like cherry! How wide are the drawers? I like that you graduated the drawer sizes…nice touch!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

I like this. The drawers are nice with the wide dovetails and the big pulls.

Daniel,

I, too, thought this was cherry when I first saw the pictures. Very nice project and I like the way that your drawer pulls echo the shape of the dovetails on the drawers. This is an efficient use of space as well.

It would drive my wife nuts, though. She has this compulsive drive to continually rearrange furniture. For some reason she can’t seem to be able to simply leave it alone. A dresser like this one would be hard to move. (I may have to think about putting something like this in the next time she yells at me about tracking in sawdust). :)

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

I think the only downside to this project is if you ever move out of this house!
That is a really cool project. nice work, I love the look of the dovetails.

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beautiful work … fantastic idea … you must live in a cape cod style house

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Great idea. I like the different sizes of everything. Makes it unique.

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

This goes into my “never saw that before” file. Nice work!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Thanks for the compliments!

The drawers are 12” wide. I designed the piece so that it fits between wall studs. The face frame is about 17” wide, while the cabinet behind it is 14” wide. By the way, in checking the drawer widths, I noticed that some of my dimension above were of a bit so I am correcting those.

The house is an A Frame, and we have a quite a few spaces like this that I plan to build similar solutions for (someday).

-- Daniel, Southern Indiana -- "Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." -- http://blackdogwoodshop.etsy.com

Several people commented that the dresser has the look of Cherry. Our bed is cherry, and my wife wanted this to “match”. I created several sample boards and let her decide on the final color of the finish.

-- Daniel, Southern Indiana -- "Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." -- http://blackdogwoodshop.etsy.com

For those that are interested, here is a better picture of the grain and the finish. Thanks for looking!

-- Daniel, Southern Indiana -- "Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." -- http://blackdogwoodshop.etsy.com

Thats a nice Built-In Dresser.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Thanks!

-- Daniel, Southern Indiana -- "Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." -- http://blackdogwoodshop.etsy.com

beautiful design and wood grain : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Thanks!

-- Daniel, Southern Indiana -- "Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." -- http://blackdogwoodshop.etsy.com