I mentioned in this thread that I had done some more wardrobes and would post some pics once the client had painted them. Well he's done the painting (7/10 for effort, room still to be decorated) and I went back last week to fit the glazing and door knobs, this is what they turned out like.
The design was to be quite plain with mirrors in the top half of the doors so I went for flat shaker panels with eight panes over with small glazing bars that just had a simple cove mould to them. A shorter torus moulding to match the torus throughout the house and capped it off with some left over oak cornice moulding.
Construction is my usualy 18mm beech MFC (8mm backs) with the face frame, doors and draw fronts in 22mm MR MDF. Glazing beads were white beech as I had some knocking about and the whole thing stands on a CLS plinth that is hidded by MDF skirting. The two side returns were paneled out with MDF, you may just be able to see the shadow lines
Draws boxes are iroko with 6mm oak MDF bottoms on Blum tandem runners with Blumotion, knobs are cut glass from Door Chic
All fitted in quite well, the only hickup was the lady of the house saying she wanted full height hanging and shelves for shoes after the carcases were in place, her husband had said half hanging to all wardrobes when I quoted!! Luckily I only used dry biscuits for the midway shelves and carcase screws can be snapped quite easily once the shelf has been cut through with the cordless circ saw, I covered the slots/holes with some iron on edging.
To keep the back of the doors tidy I used a double rebate into the rails and styles to take a cmm MDF backing which holds the 4mm mirror into 3.5mm rebates with a dab of mirror adhesive to stop any rattles, its also a lot easier than fiting glazing beads to 40 mirrors, client neglected to paint the backing panels.
Jason
PS. If anyone can spot the construction error the prize is a boost to their ego :wink:
The design was to be quite plain with mirrors in the top half of the doors so I went for flat shaker panels with eight panes over with small glazing bars that just had a simple cove mould to them. A shorter torus moulding to match the torus throughout the house and capped it off with some left over oak cornice moulding.
Construction is my usualy 18mm beech MFC (8mm backs) with the face frame, doors and draw fronts in 22mm MR MDF. Glazing beads were white beech as I had some knocking about and the whole thing stands on a CLS plinth that is hidded by MDF skirting. The two side returns were paneled out with MDF, you may just be able to see the shadow lines
Draws boxes are iroko with 6mm oak MDF bottoms on Blum tandem runners with Blumotion, knobs are cut glass from Door Chic
All fitted in quite well, the only hickup was the lady of the house saying she wanted full height hanging and shelves for shoes after the carcases were in place, her husband had said half hanging to all wardrobes when I quoted!! Luckily I only used dry biscuits for the midway shelves and carcase screws can be snapped quite easily once the shelf has been cut through with the cordless circ saw, I covered the slots/holes with some iron on edging.
To keep the back of the doors tidy I used a double rebate into the rails and styles to take a cmm MDF backing which holds the 4mm mirror into 3.5mm rebates with a dab of mirror adhesive to stop any rattles, its also a lot easier than fiting glazing beads to 40 mirrors, client neglected to paint the backing panels.
Jason
PS. If anyone can spot the construction error the prize is a boost to their ego :wink:
