Custom Furniture and Cabinetry in Boise, Idaho by J. Alexander Fine Woodworking

Armoire – Painted & Stained Alder With the stringer glued and sized, it was time to bring the legs, stringer, and top of the base together.  We accomplished this by using a 1.25″ diameter oak closet rod as a dowel and drilling holes in the pieces to accept the dowel.  The dowel that connects the [...]

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 – 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 – 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 – 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 [...]

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather After we had completed all the construction, it was off to the finishing room with the project. We stained the doors, front and back, sprayed on a coat of lacquer, glazed the front with our favorite glaze from Sherwin-Williams, and finished up by spraying on another coat of lacquer.  [...]

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather With the cabinet, doors, and drawers fully constructed, we were on to assembling the entire unit.  The client did not want to have any visible hinges, so we used Euro hinges for all the doors. The Euro hinges were a bit unique because the four outside hinges mounted onto [...]

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather Before we look at the cabinet, which was the first part of the project to be constructed, let us turn our attention to the doors. We had six doors and two side panels that were all similarly constructed. 1. We began by building a simple shaker rail and stile [...]

Media Cabinet – Alder & Leather We recently had a brand new interior designer, Suzie Hall from Cornerstone Interior Design, approach us with a very cool project!  The project is a media cabinet, designed to hold the clients TV on the top, the various components behind the three sets of doors, two central drawers, and [...]

Honu Bench – Stained Alder We recently had a client who wanted a customized bench for his master bedroom.  The client was born and raised in Hawaii and had an attachment to the Hawaiian hieroglyphic of the sea turtle, otherwise known as “honu”.  He wanted a bench that was stout and sturdy, with angular lines, [...]