Built-ins
Built-ins are any permanent cabinetry built to accommodate a space. Built-ins typically run from wall to wall and sit on the floor.
Langford Living Room
This project started with a fairly busy two dimensional concept drawing. By using pretensioned steel reinforced shelves I was able to provide a simpler, more open, design. I also wanted to ease the transition between wall unit and mantle. The large and shallow TV both required and allowed the TV cabinet to be shallower and shorter. While there was no need to use different shelf depths on the upper portion, it reinforces the desired effect.
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Churchfield Sitting Room
For this one I replaced an old wine rack with this shelf and door unit. Its made from Ash plywood with solid Ash edging and has a clear catalyzed lacquer finish. The grain on the doors is book-matched and centered/balanced. Technically this worked out quite well. There are no surface fasteners, cover caps, putty, etc. anywhere in, or on the face, of the cabinet. All fasteners are behind the trim which snaps in place with special clips. The clips made the normally painful four sided scribe (fitting of the trim) relatively easy, and the 1-1/2" border around the inset/flush doors possible.
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Theaman Bookcase
Mark and Dorna have a lot of books and Kristin at Interior Arts came up with the design for this 10' tall bookcase. The open base is 17" deep to accommodate oversize books and the rest is 11-3/4" deep. All visible edges are 1-1/2" thick and the, up to 39" wide, adjustable shelves have pretensioned steel reinforcement to prevent sagging. The top is trimmed with standard 2-1/4" crown and the base has a 5-1/4" ogee top furniture toe kick.
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Wolf Family Room
This wall unit/mantle replaced an old mantle and was part of a larger project that included matching frame and panel wainscot. To maximize the shallow space the cabinet is almost flush with the window (right) and soffit. I believe this is the first cabinet I did where all visible edges are 1-1/2" thick. This provides a nice solid feel to a cabinet and I'm glad the interior designer (Kristin at Interior Arts) requested it. All visible materials are lacquered MDF. The base cabinet interiors are white melamine. Like most projects its hard to get a picture when the cabinetry is 100% complete. The white-white (primer) above the mantle now matches the walls/ceiling.
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Robinson Office
This Fir wall unit, with its shaker doors and simple trim details, was designed to match the home's craftsman style woodwork and to make the window and existing trim a part of the cabinet. With the exception of the maple drawer boxes, the cabinet is made from stained CVG (clear vertical grain) solids and veneers. The long adjustable shelves have built up edges and internal aluminum reinforcement. To keep the drawers free of hardware, there are finger pulls on the bottom edges of the drawer faces.
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Engerman Wine Rack
I built this for Doug's wine room. Its made of 3/4" Cherry melamine with the exception of the trim which is stained Hemlock. Its a single cabinet that I drew in CAD, made in the shop and assembled on site. Its designed to hold 12 bottles per cubbyhole. I prefer to install prefinished trim and I'm not sure why the trim on this cabinet was finished in place. I was able to get another (lousy) picture, with the trim finished, while Doug was moving in (some bottles on the rack).
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Todderoff Master Bedroom
This was a fairly simple unit built around the master bedroom window. All shelving, counters and cabinet tops are 1" thick and have a full bull-nose edge (a detail carried throughout the house). Construction is lacquered MDF with the exception of the melamine window-seat drawer boxes. There's a closeup of the right side of the unit here. There's also an image of the VG Fir window-seat I did for their guest bedroom.
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