Floating Shelves and French Doors

The cookie lady need someplace to store cookies away for safe keeping while they dry during the icing process... so bunk bed building took a hiatus.

French Doors

This is when you wish your truck was longer.










 

 The standard door package was too wide for the existing opening so I had to re-make the frame 3/8" thinner and re-cut the hinge mortises and then re-hang the doors... this was easier than tearing down a load bearing wall...



 
Then I had to drill the holes and cut mortises for the handle set.








 



I then finished out the frame and the opening above.  The Cookie Lady and I are going to design and build a stain glass window for the opening... someday...








Floating Shelves

2X4's cut down and grooves put on two sides... a groove is called a "dado".  A box full of scrap plywood 3X3".








 

A long strip of cut down 2X4 also has a dado and is screwed to the studs.






Assembly is the fun part of this project.  Scrap 1/2" plywood is tapped into the tight dadoes and glued.  Surprisingly strong.


A front piece is added with a dado and a rabbet. A rabbet is a ledge that the 1/4" plywood skin will lay into on the front.  In the end it will look like one piece of solid wood.




Awaiting staining and clear coating by the cookie lady...