December 30, 2007
Now I can start my Christmas....
I've been working busily over the holiday to get this ready, and I installed it yesterday. (It's not a good picture, sorry. It is actually very difficult to photograph such a dark piece.)
I'm in the conference room of a local corporation. There are recesses in each of the end walls, and they wanted shelves to match the ones on the other end of the room. Those white rectangles are cut-outs for electrical outlets--which should be inconspicuous once the shelves are filled with "product."
There are more details below the fold, if you are interested...
Here's the plan:
Construction details. I originally planned to make the top one 12' long piece, which would have been a bit risky and tricky. Fortunately the size of the elevators precluded this, and the join in the top turned out to be quite inconspicuous.
Nice.
Posted by: B. Durbin at December 30, 2007 02:03 PMVery nice! I'm almost finished with a remodeling project (http://picasaweb.google.com/sweidner) and one of my remaining tasks is to build a vanity for the master bathroom. If you drew up the plans, what program did you use for your exploded view?
Posted by: Steve Weidner at December 31, 2007 02:51 PMAlways nice to encounter a Weidner!
The drawings were made with SketchUp, which is now called Google SketchUp Pro. You can download (here) a free version which will do almost everything the Pro version does.
I think it is the most awesome piece of software I've ever encountered. It does take quite a bit of getting used to, because it works differently than most graphics or CAD programs. I made the exploded view manually, by moving the various pieces apart. it didn't take very long.
See a couple more of my sketches here and here.)
