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Bedroom Closet Built-in

comments (1) July 16th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

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Drawer Unit and Inside Shoe Storage
Bedroom Built-in
Drawers on Full Extension Easy-Close Slides
Close-up of Door Details
SOSS #208 Hinges
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Drawer Unit and Inside Shoe Storage
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The starting point for this project was a typical bedroom closet with bifold doors. The first step was to re-frame the door opening to make it almost as wide as the inside of the closet space. The idea to go with painted bevel-edge raised panel doors and drawer faces stemmed from the customer’s wish to have the unit blend-in with adjacent doors.

The frame and panel doors are roughly 30” wide x 60” high. The rails and stiles are 1 1/8” thick solid poplar assembled using floating tenons as opposed to the usual cope and stick approach. The raised panels are made from 3/4” thick solid poplar and were painted before the doors were assembled to account for seasonal wood movement. Each door rides on three SOSS #208 hinges, mortised into the door and the frame. Folllowed the manufacturer’s recommendation and located the middle hinges much above the centerline of the doors. These hinges are amazing. Very accurate and very smooth.

The drawer faces are 3/4” thick solid poplar frame and panel construction. The drawer boxes are made from 5/8” thick solid poplar. They are roughly 15” wide x 26” long x 6” deep, assembled with through dovetails on all four corners. They ride on full-extension ball bearing self-closing slides.

The remaining elements are made from maple veneer plywood edge banded with solid poplar. The paint is 100% acrylic latex diluted at 10% and spayed using an HVLP system. All built and painted in the shop.


Design or Plan used: My own design - Senomozi Furniture and Cabinetmaker
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Brian74 Brian74 writes: Great job man, you're very talented. I am thinking of something similar for a closet in our master bedroom. It's in the same spot as yours, behind the door. I want larger doors to make it easier to get to things in the back of the closet and to the left or right of the door. My wife's concern is that making the opening wider and having doors that swing out will lead to situations where I or my wife are getting something out of the closet and the someone comes through the bedroom door and can't open it or slams it into the closet doors. Do you find that happening? Also, did you design this yourself or work off of plans? I'm not sure I am experienced enough yet to design something myself.
Posted: 4:23 pm on July 27th

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