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Closet system, part 2
The upper half of the closet system is actually pretty simple from a design/construction standpoint. It consists of: A base, which is a plywood panel wrapped in solid maple trim; Two sides, which are 3/4″ plywood with a maple trim piece on the front edge; A long top shelf the entire width of the closet (66 inches in my case), again made of plywood with solid maple edging; Three shelves in the middle — one fixed, two adjustable; Three pieces of cove molding to provide support for the long top shelf; Two closet poles. The plywood...
read moreCloset system, part 1
The last piece of the maple bedroom set is a closet system instead of a dresser. The room where all of this is going is fairly small; the queen size bed takes up a lot of room. The night stand and laptop desk are important for our geeky friends and family. That doesn’t leave floor space in the roughly 12×12-foot room for a traditional dresser, but there is a decent-sized closet with a wide opening and nothing in it but a cheap-looking wire shelf. So I took the style cues of the other pieces and designed a closet system that...
read moreLaptop Desk (part 2)
Progress on the laptop desk was going smoothly, so naturally Murphy had to step in and lay down the law. Math is Hard Things started to go haywire when I test-fitted the top and top trim to the base. I started setting up to miter the top trim to fit around the base and realized that the excess length I’d left myself wasn’t excess after all — my trim just barely fit around the perimeter where it needed to be. That immediately called into question the dimensions of my top pieces. I was in trouble. As originally cut,...
read moreLaptop Desk (part 1)
I started the laptop desk during the weekend between Christmas and New Year’s. Unlike the bed and night stand the desk is entirely my design, though of course it borrows elements from the other pieces so that it will feel like part of the set. The legs are identical to the night stand except for length, and I’m using the same bullnose molding on the rails and stretchers that appears at the bottom of panels on the night stand and bed. I kept the brackets, too, and used them to decorate the stretchers. The drawer is...
read moreMaple Night Stand (part three)
The night stand is starting to take shape now, with the main carcass assembled and the drawer together. Now come the interesting parts. The Top WOOD’s original plan called for a solid wood top made from a glued-up panel with just a bullnose profile on the edges. That wouldn’t have looked at all bad, but I opted instead to make a plywood top with a maple frame around it. The main reason? I was thinking ahead to the laptop desk, which will have short sides (meaning no panels) and a plywood and frame top. By making the night...
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The Drawer WOOD’s original design for the night stand had three drawers, but mine will only have one. I eliminated the top drawer because (A) it would have to be very shallow to accommodate the electrical box for the built-in outlet, and (B) I rather like having an open place to stick things that doesn’t require pulling out a drawer to do it. I eliminated the bottom drawer because I thought it looked better without; once the real piece is done, I may go back and add that one if I think it’s needed. The drawer box itself is...
read moreMaple Night Stand (part one)
The night stand, like the traditional maple bed, is based on a design from WOOD Magazine (issue 219, specifically). The photo above left is WOOD’s version, done in poplar and stained to give it a cherry-like look. I wanted a lighter look, so I’ve made some changes to their design for my version (above right photo): I used soft maple as the primary wood and maple plywood for the side panels. The plywood is stained (2 coats of General Finishes Antique Cherry) and the maple left...
read moreTraditional Bed in Maple
This is the first piece in the maple bedroom set project. I actually finished this before starting the blog; in fact, it was the act of taking in-progress photos to share with friends that got me started on the idea of doing this blog in the first place. The design is adapted from one I found in WOOD Magazine issue 218 (July 2013). I stayed fairly close to their design — the only structural change I made was to reduce the height of the headboard — but I chose to make the bed out of soft maple instead of poplar so that the...
read moreMaple Bedroom Set
Our son Ian moved out in April, leaving an empty bedroom that my wife Julie and I are going to turn into a guest bedroom. Since it will be occupied by family and/or close friends, we want it to be nice. The first major project for my born-again workshop, then, is to make a bedroom set. The inspiration for this set comes from WOOD Magazine — specifically, the bed described in WOOD issue 218 and the matching night stand in issue 219: It’s a pretty bed, but not quite what I wanted for the room. I wanted a less heavy look, and I...
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