Archive for October, 2010

Armoire – Part 2

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Armoire – Painted & Stained Alder With the upper cabinet built and finished, it was time to turn our attention to the armoire base.  We began by building the platform that the upper cabinet sits upon. The platform consists of a torsion box wrapped in a three piece trim detail.  To build the torsion box, [...]

Armoire – Part 1b

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Armoire – Painted & Stained Alder We began construction on the armoire by tackling the upper cabinet first.  We milled and glued up the top, sides, doors, and shelves of the armoire from solid 1″ thick Alder, and the base from 1.75″ thick solid Alder. Here we see my younger brother, Colby, sanding a door [...]

Media Cabinet – Part 5

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather Here is the final piece! The doors have been framed in an embossed brown and black leather and lined with decorative upholstery nails. The entire media cabinet is filled with an assortment of electronic components.  The clients have set up their room so that everything except the fireplace can [...]

Armoire – Part 1a

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Armoire – Painted & Stained Alder Our latest project is a custom storage armoire for the same customer that we built the custom media cabinet for! We began with two inspiration pictures from the interior designer, Suzie Hall of Cornerstone Interior Design. The first one, above, shows what the cabinet and upper trim work of [...]