TALL SHELF UNITS

When I first saw NJ’s home office advert, my initial thoughts were ‘too complicated’ to make but when you break down the image into its individual component parts, it suddenly just becomes a series of rectangular frames with shelves.

Begin by cutting all the pieces

 

Starting off the build by making the two tall narrow units for each end.  Used 2 boards 140 cm tall for the sides and 2 pieces 43.5 cm long for the top/bottom.  These dimensions should give us a unit that has an internal width of 40 cm, the perfect size for a piece of 400 mm pineboard door.  We had to shape the smaller pieces for the right-hand unit so that it could fit snuggly around the boxed pipes. 

 

Shaped pieces for the boxed pipes

Then used 2 boards 140 cm tall for the sides and 2 pieces 64 cm long for the top/bottom to make the next pair of units.  These are open shelf units with no doors. 

Pre-drill holes in the top and bottom sections then screw to the long side pieces using 5 mm counter-sunk woodscrews, long enough to give a secure join but narrow enough not to split the timber.  You want these as flush as possible so that nothing prevents the cabinets from tightly abutting together.

 

Countersink woodscrews 

With the first rectangular frame made, repeat, repeat, repeat.

 

First of the tall frames

Fits nicely against the wall

Cabinet shaped to fit around the boxed pipes

Second larger frame built

It’s taken a whole day of cutting, screwing and shivering in the cold to build 4 rectangular frames.  Hats off to the other half who overcame his carpentry confidence crisis to deliver the goods.  The frames look fabulous and thanks to careful planning, fit like a glove across the wall space.  Now all that’s left to make is the bridging unit.

Four tall frames finished and in position