Previous Project - Wall Unit

Lounge room at my place has a wall angled at about 30 degrees. This makes it a real difficult room to put furniture in. There is also large windows on both ends. To fix this I decided to build a wall unit to fit into this area and have a go at making some raised panel door as well.

What to make it from, well I still had a stack of fence palings in the yard so what else.


Needless to say there was a hell of a lot of gluing to form the panels and I had to buy a set of Panel clamps to help keep them flat. I also had to buy a set of Raise Panel bit to cut the styles and rails of the doors and drawers.

The far right hand draw in the photo is only the front due to the angle of the wall.

The carcass of the unit is constructed from 16mm MDF with a 20mm hardwood edge strip on the face. For the top I riped the palings in half and then glued them together on edge to give me a 30mm thick top.






I had to make the top in 2 halves so I could run the finished glue up through the thicknesser. I then bisculted the 2 halves together and router in some stiffener at 90 degrees to the paling to hold it all together.



 






 I then had to fill in the gap behind this unit so a constructed a full height cupboard with 4 drawers for DVDs etc and storage, made up a 6 panel screen for behind the TV and also an open set of shelves for above the TV.

I can't remember how long this project took in total, I am pretty sure that it was during this project that i had to get another fence which I found on "Gumtree". However as you can see in the photos it was finished for Christmas a few years back and it squares up the lounge room and holds hundreds of DVDs, games to keep them out of site.