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Cabinets & Storage Solutions: Furniture to Organize Your Home is a compilation first published in 2007 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. The patterns contained herein are copyrighted by Woodworker’s Journal.
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Cabinets & storage solutions : furniture to organize your home / from the editors of Woodworker's journal. -- East Petersburg, PA : Fox Chapel Publishing, c2007.
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(The best of Woodworker's journal)
ISBN: 978-1-56523-344-7
1. Cabinetwork. 2. Storage cabinets. 3. Furniture making.
4. Storage in the home. 5. Woodwork--Patterns. I. Cabinets and storage solutions. II. Woodworker's journal.
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Introduction
Cabinets and storage furniture have been benchmark projects since our forefathers first applied steel to wood. Why? For one, they’re an excellent blend of form and function. The basic box—just six parts, a few hinges, and a handful of nails—effectively moved nearly everything our ancestors had from one continent to another. Cabinets are also versatile: Whether fixed or portable, built for security or designed for show, storage boxes adapt readily to the purpose.
Of course, it’s certainly a plus that cabinets are also just plain fun to build. A simple box and doors can welcome you into woodworking, while more sophisticated designs laced with intricate joinery can keep you challenged long after that first project fades from memory.
Cabinet and storage projects continue to appeal to Woodworker’s Journal readers, and they always will. We’ve had the good fortune to work with some of the best cabinetmakers in the country—Rick White, Mike McGlynn, Bruce Kieffer, and Bill Hylton, to name just a few. This new book highlights 16 of their finest projects for you to build.
If you’re just getting comfortable with woodworking tools, start with David Larson’s barbecue cart, Mike McGlynn’s toy box, or Rick White’s blanket chest, so you can ensure your success and end up with a charming project when the dust clears.
Maybe you’d like to dabble in traditional hand-tool techniques or build an authentic reproduction piece. Several projects here will satisfy that goal. Set your sights on the early American dresser, the jelly cupboard, the Arts and Crafts hutch, the collector’s cabinet, or one of Mike McGlynn’s masterpieces—the Greene and Greene–inspired dresser or the Ruhlmann cabinet. They’ll present a sporting challenge, to say the least, with heirloom results.
If it’s storage you’re after, you’ll find some gems. Rick White shares several, including a steamer trunk, an angler’s cabinet, and a Scandinavian-style sideboard. You can also make a discreet home for your new flat-screen TV, or you can challenge your routing savvy with Bill Hylton’s Eastern Shore chest.
So, grab hold of woodworking’s collective torch and embark on some fine cabinetry projects. You’re in excellent hands.
Larry N. Stoiaken, Editor-in-Chief
Acknowledgments
Woodworker’s Journal recently celebrated its 30th anniversary—a benchmark few magazines ever reach. I would like to acknowledge both the 300,000 woodworkers who make up our readership and Rockler Woodworking and Hardware (rockler.com), which provided most of the hardware, wood, and other products used to build the projects in this book. Our publishing partner, Fox Chapel, did a terrific job re-presenting our material, and I am especially grateful to Alan Giagnocavo, Gretchen Bacon, John Kelsey, and Troy Thorne for their commitment to our content.
Larry N. Stoiaken, Editor-in-Chief
CONTENTS
by Dean Holzman
Set aside a weekend and some clear maple lumber for building this old-fashioned piece. The mullioned door and batten back add authenticity.
by Rick White
This charming cherry chest bypasses mortise-and-tenon joints in favor of rabbets and laps, making it easy to build without compromising strength or capacity.
by Rick White
You’ll probably never use this sturdy, handsome trunk for an ocean voyage, but it’s