A friend (Ali) reached out to me with a few drawings, the goal? To make better use of the space beside her fireplace. We exchanged ideas, me sending her an ideas from Sketchup and she would send back another drawing, and soon enough we settled on a plan and started the build. I worked on it in stages starting first on the base cabinets, then a few weeks later I made the upper shelving.
Ever notice that brick walls are not necessarily even? One pays more attention to these things when the goal is to have a flush cabinet sitting between it and the adjacent wall. So to get a perfect fit I made one unit 23.5 inches wide and the other 24 inches wide. I’m not going to bore you with a play by play of the build, but check out the galleries below as there were no shortcuts in this custom build 🙂

Before

After
The Base cabinet build:
the plan make a box the face of the cabinet (faceframe) loose tenon construction set aside let glue dry and clean up glue face frame to cabinet same for both cabinets don’t forget that the cabinets are different sizes drawer construction slide in the bottom attach hardware and insert drawers drawer face set blade height with set up block cut slot for drawer panel that a lot of slots make tenon for drawer insert panel and glue up clamp it down wait and clean up same process for door fronts hole the cabinet hardware attach the doors take a bow
Making of the upper shelves:
use track saw to cut the angles and the other angle yay, now to join them loose tenons got domino? pocket screws for the shelving and its all square kristi the packing guru installing drawer pulls during home install note the paint
Thanks for viewing!


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