Mike Vermeil
04-20-2005, 11:59 AM
Following are a couple pics of two built-in cabinets I recentely completed for a customer. Sorry for the poor quality of the pics - they're too close and don't show the detail well. In both cases, the cabinets fit into exisiting alcoves in the customer's new house.
The first cabinet houses a LCD projection, big-screen TV. While it's nothing that fancy to look at - per the customer's request - it was actaully a bit challanging to design and build. The TV rests on a birch plywood cabinet fitted with adjustable legs that also houses the slides for the two drawers beneath the TV. The face frame then snaps onto both the plywood cabinet and the alcove itself, mating up flush with the face of the TV. Many times I've designed pieces going backwards from some specific opening or the like, but I've never designed a piece going backwards from two seperate, unattached objects. Luckily, installation went pretty smooth and the customer is happy. I really like the look of the whole unit.
The second is a pretty standard stereo cabinet. The interesting part of this project is it's the first time I've used those new brackets for attaching the Blum full-extension ball bearing slides to ordinary adjustable shelf standards. I was skeptical at first, but they work very well. The customer can now adjust all five shelves up and down as necessary to accomodate any size A/V component. Sorry I don't have pictures of the brackets themselves, but I'll try to get pics of them on a new project I'm working on now.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
The first cabinet houses a LCD projection, big-screen TV. While it's nothing that fancy to look at - per the customer's request - it was actaully a bit challanging to design and build. The TV rests on a birch plywood cabinet fitted with adjustable legs that also houses the slides for the two drawers beneath the TV. The face frame then snaps onto both the plywood cabinet and the alcove itself, mating up flush with the face of the TV. Many times I've designed pieces going backwards from some specific opening or the like, but I've never designed a piece going backwards from two seperate, unattached objects. Luckily, installation went pretty smooth and the customer is happy. I really like the look of the whole unit.
The second is a pretty standard stereo cabinet. The interesting part of this project is it's the first time I've used those new brackets for attaching the Blum full-extension ball bearing slides to ordinary adjustable shelf standards. I was skeptical at first, but they work very well. The customer can now adjust all five shelves up and down as necessary to accomodate any size A/V component. Sorry I don't have pictures of the brackets themselves, but I'll try to get pics of them on a new project I'm working on now.
Thanks for looking.
Mike