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Well, after I told my lovely wife that this would take 3 months (in summer 2007), I've finally finished a set of semi-built-ins for our living room. All told it took me 19 months. I suppose I was a bit off in my estimation.
There are 9 total cabinets. The overall size of the installation is about 8'x8' and they are 14" deep. The sizes are:
Top Row: 2' 4' 2'
2nd Row: 5' 3'
3rd Row: 4' 4'
Bottom Row: 3' 5'
The construction is a 3D torsion box in that each wall is a separate MDF torsion box joined at the corners by half-lap joints. Then the frame was skinned with 1/4" Birch Playwood. Finally, I built some poplar face frames which are joined on the 45 with a biscuit. This face frame was glued and clamped to the box. I sanded, applied a stain conditioner and then stained them with oil-based stain. They were then rubbed down with paste wax. There is about 40' of white tube lights snaking behind the cabinets. I blacked out the spots where the lights run vertically and where they cross from one cabinet to another using black gaffers tape.
Here's the pieces for one of the assemblies - in total, there were about 900 dados cut. I burned out 1 radial arm saw in the process.
Total cost (including a new radial arm saw from craigslist) was about $700.
More and larger photos are here:
There are 9 total cabinets. The overall size of the installation is about 8'x8' and they are 14" deep. The sizes are:
Top Row: 2' 4' 2'
2nd Row: 5' 3'
3rd Row: 4' 4'
Bottom Row: 3' 5'
The construction is a 3D torsion box in that each wall is a separate MDF torsion box joined at the corners by half-lap joints. Then the frame was skinned with 1/4" Birch Playwood. Finally, I built some poplar face frames which are joined on the 45 with a biscuit. This face frame was glued and clamped to the box. I sanded, applied a stain conditioner and then stained them with oil-based stain. They were then rubbed down with paste wax. There is about 40' of white tube lights snaking behind the cabinets. I blacked out the spots where the lights run vertically and where they cross from one cabinet to another using black gaffers tape.
Here's the pieces for one of the assemblies - in total, there were about 900 dados cut. I burned out 1 radial arm saw in the process.
Total cost (including a new radial arm saw from craigslist) was about $700.
More and larger photos are here:
Loring in Katy, TX USA
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