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Indoor Furniture
Dave Campbell
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Design and Install
Built-In Bookcases
If you can make a freestanding bookcase, you can handle built-ins.
We’ll guide you from planning through installation.
B
uilt-ins add so much pizzazz to a ments [Photo A] before making plans to the width of a window. For a window,
room, you may forget they offer fit your combined built-ins within the measure its width (including the trim)
lots0 of practical storage, too. In shortest dimensions. and add enough space on both sides to
this article, you’ll learn how to plan, Next check wall corners for right accept your curtains or drapes. Other-
build, and install two bookcases and a angles using a framing square. For cor- wise, leave a 2–4" gap to help built-ins
window seat, but you can customize the ners that are out-of-square or off from slide into place. Mark this gap on the
arrangement to suit your needs. vertical by more than a couple of degrees, wall on both sides of the window. Mea-
If you’re building around a fireplace, for plan to widen by ½" the face-frame stile sure between marks for the window-seat
example, omit the window seat. Or butting against the sidewalls to compen- length, in this case 48" to work around a
lengthen the shelving units and do with- sate. Measure to any obstacles, such as 42"-wide window.
out the base cabinet for more display floor registers, cold-air returns, outlets, Now measure from your marks beside
space. Our modular system makes it easy windows, doors, or a fireplace. the window to the adjacent wall. Check
to mix and match the components. several locations for the shortest distance
Now work up a design and subtract ½" from that dimension on
Plumb beautiful bookcases You’re not just fitting built-ins within a each side of the window to determine
Floors tilt, walls lean and bow, and room room, you’re fitting them around objects the width of cabinets flanking the win-
corners meet at less-than-square angles. such as windows, doors, and fireplaces. dow seat. (Oversize stiles or moldings
So begin with careful room measure- Start with a critical dimension, such as will eliminate this gap.)
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2
Materials List
1 Use this list to record the part sizes for your built-
ins. Part quantities reflect the number of parts
3 3 required to assemble one built-in of each type.
Parts such as the side frames and moldings vary
by installation and are not included.
5 5
4 Window seat
FINISHED SIZE
Part T W L Matl. Qty. Total
A sides 3⁄4" " " Ply 2
woodmagazine.com 31
1½"
FASTEN THE WINDOW-SEAT HINGE 41¼"
K
LID
J ¾" rabbet
3⁄8" deep on 133⁄8"
1 window seat back face
exploded view
41¾" continuous
hinge
8"
13½" 48"
I
1½" Pocket
K H ¾ x ¾" strip
screw
Hole cut to fit I with a
3¼" register cover 3⁄8" ogee profile
K
B
Double-faced tape the hinge with the barrel Pocket holes 47"
6"
centered between the window-seat lid and ¼"
the top back and screw the hinge in place.
CARCASE ½ x ¾ x 13¼" strip
¼" 13¼"
¾" L 14"
(See “Move air through the seat or a gap
in the base” below for how to do this.) 14"
Pocket A CHANNEL
To assemble the case, drill pocket
screw 19¾" G ¾"
holes in the sides [Drawing 1] and screw 14"
the sides to the bottom. Then screw the 45½"
45½" A
front panel and face frame to the sides. 14½" B
Note: Use fine-thread pocket-hole screws to E D
C ½"
avoid splitting the narrow hardwood frame
8½" E
parts. Add a trim piece (G) to hide the Hole size/location
2" F to suit register 19¾"
plywood panel edge. D
3" C 12½"
To make the window-seat top frame
#8 x 1½" F.H. wood screw
and lid, first cut an 8"-wide top back (H) 42" 3"
that’s 1" longer than the case. Then cut 48" ¼"
two 3¼"-wide top sides (I) long enough
to reach from the top back to the front
of the face frame. Drill and screw the top
sides to the top back and screw that between the top sides and wide enough the blank and cut it to the lid length.
assembly to the case sides. If the window- for the front edge to rest flush with the Glue and clamp the trim to the seat lid.
seat sides will be exposed, build a frame face-frame surface. Cut and rout a top Now attach the lid to the top frame with
from ½×3" hardwood to hide the pocket trim piece (K) blank 1" longer than the a continuous hinge [Photo B]. Finally cut
holes and fill the face-frame overhang. face frame. From that, cut two top-trim a back (L) to fit over the edges of the bot-
From ¾" plywood, cut the window pieces for the ends of the top sides and tom and sides. Then screw it to the case
seat lid (J) ¼" shorter than the opening glue them in place. Rabbet the rest of and top frame.
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shop tip
Add open shelving on top Add a middle rail to
The upper-shelf carcase goes together hide a fixed-shelf edge
much like the lower-cabinet carcase. Rip To position a middle face-frame rail (HH)
the carcase sides (AA), top (BB), and fixed accurately along a shelf, first apply paint-
shelf (CC) 11½" wide. Cut the sides to er’s tape to the plywood carcase edges
length to fit your room height. Then cut and shelf where the shelf meets the sides. Middle face-
the top and fixed shelf to the same frame rail
Clamp the face frame to the carcase and
length as the lower-cabinet bottom (N). drill pocket holes at each end of the rail.
Drill shelf-pin holes in both sides. (See Painter’s
Glue and clamp the rail between the face- tape
More Resources for information on drill- frame stiles with the rail edge flush with
ing shelf-pin holes.) the top of the shelf. After the glue dries,
Next rip the adjustable shelf (DD) 7∕8" remove the frame and tape, and drive
narrower than the sides and 3∕16" shorter Face-frame stile
pocket-hole screws to reinforce the glue
than the fixed shelf. Glue on the front joints. Screw the face frame to the carcase
trim (EE) and sand it flush with the ply- and sand the middle-rail top edge flush
wood. Drill and screw the sides to the with the shelf.
top and fixed shelf [Drawing 4].
Size the upper-shelf face frame (FF/
GG/HH) so that the stiles overlap ½" on
both case sides but are flush with the top For the visible sides of the upper shelf, Upper shelf
FINISHED SIZE
and bottom of the sides. (The extra over- add a ½"-thick face frame to the sides to
Part T W L Matl. Qty. Total
lap helps you scribe and cut the stiles to hide the screw holes. Use the same
AA sides 3⁄4" 111⁄2" " Ply 2
fit a wall or mate with a side frame.) Drill widths as for the lower-cabinet side
pocket holes and screw the top rail (GG) frames and rabbet the 3" side-frame stiles BB top 3⁄4" 111⁄2" " Ply 1
to the face-frame sides (FF). To accurately where shown [Drawing 4]. CC fixed shelf 3⁄4" 111⁄2" " Ply 1
align a middle rail (HH) with the fixed Finally cut a back (JJ) to fit the upper DD adjustable 3⁄4" " " Ply 1
shelf
shelf (CC), see the Shop Tip above right. shelf. Finish-sand the window seat, base
Next cut, rout, and screw the hard- cabinet, upper shelves, top, and backs. EE adjustable- 3⁄4" 13⁄8" " H 1
shelf trim
wood trim pieces (II) to the sides just Stain and apply three coats of clear fin- face-frame
FF stiles 3⁄4" 3" " H 2
below the top and at the bottom. (You’ll ish. Afterward screw the back to the
GG top
use these later to help attach the back.) shelf at the top, sides, and bottom. face-frame 3⁄4" 5" " H 1
rail
HH middle 3⁄4" 11⁄2" " H 1
face-frame rail
II back trim 3⁄4" 13⁄8" " H 2
36½" 11½" II
1½"
¾"
Build up a crowning touch add caps for crown molding BEGIN ADDING CROWN MOLDING
To anchor the crown molding, cut and
rout a ¾×3" filler strip to fit between the
tops of the bookshelves. Rout a 3∕8"-ogee
profile on it where shown [Drawing 7]. Top-trim
Next cut and rout crown-cap blanks to cleats
reach around and between your book-
cases. Finish-sand the filler strip and
crown-cap blanks to 220 grit and finish
them to match the built-ins. Then screw Filename: 199 Builtin bookcase 1 (RL 2-16)
Drive RL 12-26, JM 2-2, RL 2-4, RL 2-9, RL 2-15,
the filler strip to the wall studs. a brad
JM 2-16, RW 3-19, RW 3-26, RW 4-22
Miter-cut 6aWALL-MOUNTING
crown cap toCLEAT reach here.
between the bookshelves over the win-
dow seat and FILENAME:199BinBookCase6_#100672709.ai
screw it to the filler strip. Tint:
Measure and Date: 4-10
miter-cut crown caps for
Lorna J.
the shelf tops, and drive pocket screws
into the trim cleats [Photo K].
Finish-sand the crown moldings to K L
220 grit and stain them. Miter-cut crown Clamps hold the crown caps flush while Cut crown molding to fit between the
you fasten them to the top-trim cleats. If bookcases so that the upper edge of the
molding to fit between the bookcases necessary, add brads to the outside corners. miters matches the crown-cap miters.
and nail it to the crown cap and filler
strip [Photo L]. Then cut and nail the
remaining crown [Drawing 7]. more resources
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