When we were leaving the client's house after a design meeting, I showed Clint and Josh the photo that the client had given me.
"How are you going to do that?", Clint asked
."I don't know yet."
But projects like this are the reason I love this business. I love the challenge of solving complex problems.
There were several design concerns with this project. I was going to be building a small bathroom vanity in the style of the large kitchen island in the picture that the client had given me. Even coming up with a design proposal that had appropriate scale would be a challenge.
Fortunately, I nailed the drawing on my first try. "Love it!", said the client.
Then there were the challenges of building the cabinet I had drawn.
Most shops would have taken simpler approaches to each of the problems, but we want our projects to be a level above "most shops".
In the end, we created the lattice work for the false front by dadoing small strips of lumber into a solid piece of alder.
The door is constructed much like a common raised panel door
, but material is cut away to leave the diamond in the center. a cove is cut into the edges of that diamond. This makes a grain that stays consistent all the way through the panel. A simple applied lattice, or an applique for the diamond would have looked cheap and wouldn't hold up.We couldn't be happier with the result.
