Pine Wardrobes for Attic Room

[davin]

Thanks for your replies Dan.
One more stupid question if you don`t mind.
Pine, I pressume you don`t buy Pine for a project like that in B and Q.
Do you buy form a timber merchant. Is is sold like hardwood, ie waney edged properly kilned and furniture grade?
thanks again

 

[BradNaylor]

Thanks for your replies Dan.
One more stupid question if you don`t mind.
Pine, I pressume you don`t buy Pine for a project like that in B and Q.
Do you buy form a timber merchant. Is is sold like hardwood, ie waney edged properly kilned and furniture grade?
thanks again

I got this from my usual timber yard. It's something called 5ths sawn 1" Redwood.

It came in 4.8m lengths and 150mm wide. Every piece was dead straight - unusual for pine!


I was very pleased with it - I managed to get 22mm planed timber out of 1" stock. It was also nice and dry.

For the door panels I used bought-in 8mm redwood panels from Pennine Timber in Middleton, Manchester.

Dan

 

[DangerousDave]

Thats a lovely job Dan. I'm wondering if you had as many probs scribing the crown moulding as I did when I made something similar;

It was the radius where the ceiling curves that caused me many probs. I have to say yours looks a lot neater

 

[Benchwayze]

Very good Dan,

Am I right in thinking that you made this in 3 "panels" (frames with doors within), seperate from either loose shelving or carcasses behind?

Does the top left hand door open? If so, have you left them some Polyfilla for the ceiling??!!

Mike

There are no carcasses behind the frames Mike, just dividers between the 3 frames to provide stability.

The top left hand door is hinged to the door next to it, making a 'bi-fold' door. This avoids the point hitting the ceiling!

Cheers
Dan

Middle and off? Nice over Dan!

:lol: :lol:
Sorry Mike. Couldn't resist.

 

[BradNaylor]

Thats a lovely job Dan. I'm wondering if you had as many probs scribing the crown moulding as I did when I made something similar;

It was the radius where the ceiling curves that caused me many probs. I have to say yours looks a lot neater

I just played around with a couple of short offcuts of cornice - got the angles right and mitre-fixed them together before shaping the outside edge with a jigsaw and block plane to fit the curve of the ceiling.

When it was right I traced the outline onto the real cornice and shaped that.

Mitre-fix is a wonderful thing...

Dan

 

[DangerousDave]

And only 2 days fitting, v. impressive

 

[BradNaylor]

And only 2 days fitting, v. impressive

I hate fitting.

Which is why I get it done as quickly as I can and get back to my nice workshop with a big cheque in my back pocket!



Dan