David Rose
03-02-2003, 3:01 AM
This hobby of woodworking is forcing me to do some more of it. My "reading room" is getting rather full. Of course I share this room with a shower and another appliance. :)
I want to fill a space that will allow me to have shelves 1 foot deep and 2 feet wide. These will run from floor to a height of 5 & 1/2'. At this point the wall makes a 45 following the roof line.
At present there is an old magazine rack in this location stacked to the ceiling of course. It is 1x2' with an area shaped into it where legs and knees need to go when sitting in one spot. This is a small room.
What I want to do is just use pine and build a simple set of shelves to replace the magazine table.
Spacing the shelves to fit my books and magazines, there will need to be clearance for the lightswitch cover of around 3" into the front edge of the shelf end panel. The switch cover is immediately below one shelf. I thought about just cutting around the cover, but that sounds pretty crude. I drew up some scallops around the edges and they look a little better, but being just below one shelf the top of the scallop will have to just "end" back 3" on the shelf. Is this clear?
Scallops carried out between each shelf would let me have the desired leg room between the bottom shelf and the next up.
The table gives me a place for an ashtray and coffee cup on the end. I was thinking of insetting the end a few inches between a couple of shelves for this too. Or if some end panel relief was cut deeply, that might handle that also.
This sounds like a really cobbled up mess as I write it. :( But I think something can be done here with more imagination than I have. Therefore I thought I'd throw this at my friends here. I can live with just something to contain the situation, so that is still a possible solution.
David
I want to fill a space that will allow me to have shelves 1 foot deep and 2 feet wide. These will run from floor to a height of 5 & 1/2'. At this point the wall makes a 45 following the roof line.
At present there is an old magazine rack in this location stacked to the ceiling of course. It is 1x2' with an area shaped into it where legs and knees need to go when sitting in one spot. This is a small room.
What I want to do is just use pine and build a simple set of shelves to replace the magazine table.
Spacing the shelves to fit my books and magazines, there will need to be clearance for the lightswitch cover of around 3" into the front edge of the shelf end panel. The switch cover is immediately below one shelf. I thought about just cutting around the cover, but that sounds pretty crude. I drew up some scallops around the edges and they look a little better, but being just below one shelf the top of the scallop will have to just "end" back 3" on the shelf. Is this clear?
Scallops carried out between each shelf would let me have the desired leg room between the bottom shelf and the next up.
The table gives me a place for an ashtray and coffee cup on the end. I was thinking of insetting the end a few inches between a couple of shelves for this too. Or if some end panel relief was cut deeply, that might handle that also.
This sounds like a really cobbled up mess as I write it. :( But I think something can be done here with more imagination than I have. Therefore I thought I'd throw this at my friends here. I can live with just something to contain the situation, so that is still a possible solution.
David