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I am making a pair of these hutches to go along both sides of our fireplace. They have elliptical backs made with douglas fir wainscoting.
I am going to have inset raised panel doors and the hutches will be sprayed white. The top header will have arches coming down to the fluted columns, and will be topped off with crown moulding at the ceiling.
Prescriptive codes don't address the connection at less common angles, so base the connection off more typical ones using bolts, structural screws, blocking, and steel tension ties.
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Stan,
I'm not a real big fan of this type of wood, but you have done a very nice job.
How about posting some pics of the finished project? I'd really like to see them installed. Your plans sound exciting.
Congrats.
Cliff.
*Thanks: The hutches doors and drawers are not done yet. I will post the completed pictures, probably not till next month. Heres where the units will go.
*Stan, Very nice! Are the back panels t & g or a complete panel?Mike
*Michael: Thanks. The back panel is beaded boards with a tongue in groove. I incorrectly said douglas fir in my first post. After posting, I realized I should have said spruce. I screwed the boards to the fixed elliptical shelves.
*Stan that is too purdy to paint. I like the bent back . Just surpised that you didn't bend the bottom just a little. Don
*Don: Thanks. Let me explain the curved back for the bookcase. I have several curved stair books I want to put on the shelves. I think they should fit just fine. I left the bottom straight for all my straight stair books. They should fit fine also. ha
*Stan-Nice cabinet, horrible joke.Peace.-Rob
*well ,Robert you must not have any curved stair books.
*Robert: I guess I better keep my day job and leave the comedy to someone else. :)
*Stan, Glad to see you have a well rounded sense of humor, nice cabinet also. Always a pleasure to see your work, lots of cool pic's.
*Armin: Thanks. I am just now getting to the raised panel doors, and the drawers. I set the marble surround today. Heres an updated picture.
*Latest pictures of my cabinet project. Just set these cabinets in my dining room Saturday. I have the raised panel doors, drawers, crown and base yet to install.
*another viewNotice the non spherical shape that one of the candles have. That fireplace kicks out the btu's
*Stan, I'm in love! You took my breathe away!
*Great job! Stan- as usual
*Thanks guys...I am putting the doors and drawers in now. I am going to mount my deer head on the stuccato chimney. I think I will have to make a special wedge shaped mount for it.
*Stan, nice project, it's always nice to be able to work on your own house for a while. I started the curved cherry trim for my tower windows a month ago, they are sitting in the finishing room waiting for me to steal some time and install them.
*Almost finished; All that is left is to paint the riser under the marble hearth and apply base shoe.
*closer shot
*closer yet
*Stan, Lookin mighty nice, If it's ok to ask, about how many hours do you have in this. I don't do casework very often, just curious.
*Stan:Thanks for posting the follow up. I was wondering how this one would turn out. As always, nice work. One question though: as meticulous as you are, why is the rug and dining table off-center from hearth, hanging light and skylights? The best I could guess is room for foot traffic over by the arch-top wine glass shelf. Everything you do is so thought out, I figure you did it on purpose.Jason
*Stan, is that a Heatilator model LE I see? Had one in the last house we built, and what a performer!
*Jason: I do not like the off center part, but this was originally my back half of my garage, and I had to jog around the furnace. This forces the table off center. I have been thinking about mounting another ceilng light to the right to balance the table lighting.Oh, well....cant have everything. :)
*Gene: The fireplace is a Monnesson brand. It really puts the heat out.
*Stan, when you say elliptical, do you mean that the curve of the back is a section of an ellipse, and not a circular arc? If so, why the trouble, and not just an arc? And if elliptical, describe your technique for layout. Thanks.
*Gene: First of all,,,the pictures dont convey the effect that the elliptical backs do when directly looking at them. I decided to make the backs elliptical for looks and to save room. The backs start off in the middle of the hutch like it was a flat back, then as they approach the ends, the curve gradually sweeps in at an accelerating rate. It was no trouble...just used the following jig to draw it. There are many ways to do it, this is just an excuse for me to use my toy again.
*Stan:Did you make each row of shelves from a single peice, scribe the arch, and cut to the finished size, creating a left and a right shelf?
*Paul: I drew out a quarter/ellipse, then just used ti for a pattern for all the shelves. The vertical wainscoting is screwed to the shelves from the back.
*Stan, I am fascinated by your great shelf design, and am committed to using it somewhere, somehow. I doodled up a computer model, graphic attached. Scale is as folows: shelf is 3/4 thick, 14 deep at deepest, 6 1/8 at shallowest, spacing shown is 13 inches. Slat boards in back are 3 wide. I drew the ellipse quarter, then sectioned it, and flattened it for each 3 wide back slat. I figured you did not cooper your back slats. How close am I to your proportions and dimensions?
*Stan Great work dude. That unit to the left...don't tell me you made the eliptical trim on your Williams and Hussey...lol. I've done dozens of raised panels on my W&H by the way...wondering how you did yours.Great job Andy
*Andy: I just use a stile and rail router bit set for the doors.Gene: Each hutch was 60 inches wide. The upright partitions are 4 inches wide. This leaves 48 inches for two shelves,, so each shelf is 24 inches wide. The depth of the shelves at the widest is 12 inches and it follows an elliptical shape to its narrow end which is 7.5 inches.