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Hi all,
being a new member of this great community I want to start sharing my 5p worth of projects. As already said, until now they mainly involve MDF built-in closets in our house, so not exactly the usual kind of solid wood projects posted here. But I'm looking forward to start working on some solid wood projects myself.
The latest realization is a hallway closet to store coats and shoes. It is entirely made of 18mm (3/4") green MDF, except for the back which is 9mm thick. oh, and the drawers are 12mm (1/2") MDF.
For the closet only screws are used to keep the thing together. Basically it's a box placed on a plywood base which I leveled (almost) perfectly using shims.
The overhang to accommodate for the lights was a bit of an experiment: I mitered all joints and 'dominoed' them together. Since it's 4 sides of a box, the glue-up was kind of a challenge, but it came out pretty good. To avoid screwing the box to the ceiling, I slid it over a cleat which I screwed into the ceiling. In the back it overlaps about 10cm with the closet, so there I screwed the two parts together.
The grooves in the doors are made with a plunge router. Challenge was to have them perfectly square and aligned across the three doors. The width of the three doors was wider than the width of a MDF panel, so I could not make the grooves first, and then cut out the doors.
The sides of the drawers are also dominoed, the bottom is a simple panel/groove construction, while the front is just glued to the drawer. To hold the shoes conveniently I put two aluminium bars in each drawers. They fit quite snugly in the holes, so no need to fix them in any other way
Hinges are blum blumotion with integrated dampers so the doors close softly. The right door had to move out of the way of the drawers and is a special kind of hinge which opens 155°. Drawer slides are also blum blumotion. A bit difficult to install, but the nice thing is they are completely hidden when the drawers are opened.
I painted it using 2 coats of waterbased lacquer on top of a waterbased 'primer'. Boy oh boy, what a drawback of working with MDF! It took ages to get all the painting to done. (the walls of the hallway still need their final coating so that's why the edges aren't perfectly done yet).
Hans
being a new member of this great community I want to start sharing my 5p worth of projects. As already said, until now they mainly involve MDF built-in closets in our house, so not exactly the usual kind of solid wood projects posted here. But I'm looking forward to start working on some solid wood projects myself.
The latest realization is a hallway closet to store coats and shoes. It is entirely made of 18mm (3/4") green MDF, except for the back which is 9mm thick. oh, and the drawers are 12mm (1/2") MDF.
For the closet only screws are used to keep the thing together. Basically it's a box placed on a plywood base which I leveled (almost) perfectly using shims.
The overhang to accommodate for the lights was a bit of an experiment: I mitered all joints and 'dominoed' them together. Since it's 4 sides of a box, the glue-up was kind of a challenge, but it came out pretty good. To avoid screwing the box to the ceiling, I slid it over a cleat which I screwed into the ceiling. In the back it overlaps about 10cm with the closet, so there I screwed the two parts together.
The grooves in the doors are made with a plunge router. Challenge was to have them perfectly square and aligned across the three doors. The width of the three doors was wider than the width of a MDF panel, so I could not make the grooves first, and then cut out the doors.
The sides of the drawers are also dominoed, the bottom is a simple panel/groove construction, while the front is just glued to the drawer. To hold the shoes conveniently I put two aluminium bars in each drawers. They fit quite snugly in the holes, so no need to fix them in any other way
Hinges are blum blumotion with integrated dampers so the doors close softly. The right door had to move out of the way of the drawers and is a special kind of hinge which opens 155°. Drawer slides are also blum blumotion. A bit difficult to install, but the nice thing is they are completely hidden when the drawers are opened.
I painted it using 2 coats of waterbased lacquer on top of a waterbased 'primer'. Boy oh boy, what a drawback of working with MDF! It took ages to get all the painting to done. (the walls of the hallway still need their final coating so that's why the edges aren't perfectly done yet).
Hans
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