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Wall of storage!

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:53:47 +0000

At the top of my stairs is a small studio space. The area was so cluttered with stuff it’s been completely inaccessible. I put in a few hours after work each night for a week and built a really nice wall of cabinets. Included in this space is a shelf for a television and VCR with the DVD player discreetly on a shelf below. The base cabinets also support a fish tank for our 10 year old goldfish who has lived through incredible conditions, including months in still 40° water.

I built these cabinets out of birch plywood with a poplar face-frame and piano hinges. All the doors are simple slabs of plywood with no edge treatment. The idea was to get this wall of storage cabinets finished!
After adding an edge to the countertop and a few interior shelves to increase capacity this baby will be ready for paint.

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Custom poplar entertainment unit

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:41:02 +0000

“As affordable as possible” is often a requirement for some projects of significant size. I don’t remember the invoice amount but it was super-affordable for a stain-grade custom unit!

The requests for this entertainment center were:

custom fit from wall-to-wall
retracting flat panel doors
drawers for media
lots of shelving for their books
built off the ground for special storage needs

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The client wanted to stain or paint this one themselves and had already purchased a TV so there’s a separate box inside to enclose their TV and provide a large shelf above for their cable box. A month later I stopped by to see the client’s finish work. They chose a stain and polyurethane application. It must have taken a long time.

This is a backdated post, entered Jan. 2008, for a job completed in 2002.