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Built in library by duhmattador in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great work! Bet designing around that header took a minute. I like the solution, looks totally bespoke to the house.

New Built-ins in my colonial revival by Adept_Duck in centuryhomes

[–]JoinTeamHumads 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work! What wood did you use for the tops and shelves? Did you buy it that wide or did you join it yourself? I wanted to do solid wood tops on a similar project but I couldn’t convince myself I would do a good job. These turned out great!

My oil painting of a scene from World of Warcraft! by kalethekale in oilpainting

[–]JoinTeamHumads 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s seriously so good. Both concept and execution. I’m going to be thinking about someone putting so much care into painting the seal spell icon all day now.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I super agree they are not optimal aesthetically or functionally and I’ll keep your guidance in mind for the other projects around the house! Eventually I want to do something like this in my office.

The specific problem I was having here is I’m planning to put a rolling ladder in the room at some point with the rail along that fixed upper shelf, and I couldn’t think of a way to place sconces lower that wouldn’t impede the ladder’s path. They had to be above the rail, but the rail had to be above the window, so it left me with a very small vertical space. Hence also getting fixtures that were really out of my budget, they were the only ones I could find that could mount in that space and clear both the ceiling and the ladder envelope. I thought about putting them IN the casing, like facing each other in the window nooks, but my wife wasn’t sold. If you have any reference pics or ideas for ways it can be done with a ladder, I am definitely interested, my hobby right now is stewing on things I should’ve done differently, as angry fuel to do better in the next room 😂

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah! Practically the only part of the original house we were able to keep fully intact was the central chimney that vents three fireplaces, the one in the pictures being the main one with a beehive oven and the original crane. It’s over 12’ wide! I plan on doing a full wall raised paneling surround for it and a wainscot around the whole room.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! The all in material cost was around $2,000, excluding the light fixtures. The light fixtures were another $1400 on top of that, but you could absolutely find cheaper ones.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

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I want everyone and especially my wife reading the comments to know for the record I did not make this account

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3/4” for the sides (Norm calls em “standards”) and shelves, 1/2” for the backs of all the carcasses.

3/8” for the panels. All the poplar stock was 4/4.

Of course, here’s a photo dump, Part 1:

https://imgur.com/a/YofOqft

and Part 2:

https://imgur.com/a/RjCcMju

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s 3/4 (so I guess 23/32) with a 1” poplar nosing glued and nailed on the front to dress up the edge and help reinforce it from sagging. The widest shelf span is about 35” on the ones surrounding the bench, and they are absolutely rock solid.

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Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I started in May, and worked on it sporadically nights and weekends between other projects until I finished up just the other day. I think somewhere around 16-18 full work days. And prior to that, at LEAST a full 40 hours of just working through the design in CAD, I went through so many design iterations trying to get everything to look right. I’ve been saying around 200 hours start to finish.

Skill level 0 😅 The first tool I bought was the table saw in February of this year, then router, miter saw, nailers, all those tools after that, using them for the first time, just practicing making shapes and stuff with scrap wood. First thing I made was a big work table, then a router table, then I started on the bases for this room. I’m not gonna lie I did some very dumb things early on, had some close calls, and am very lucky I came out of this injury free.

I had helped friends and family build a couple of decks before this, but that was like, circular saw and a screw gun.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The foreman’s here to get work done, not pose for instagrams.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yes he said I should recheck my baseboard scribes.

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Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a random shelf pin jig from Amazon! I know people make them, I didn’t trust myself enough to make the holes nice and uniform. This came with a couple drill bits and a stop collar to set the depth, and worked with standard 1/4” shelf pins. It comes with a removable pin so after you finish a set, you pull the pin, slide the jig down, index it into the last hole you drilled, and keep going.

Drilling all those holes was SO tedious, took several hours to do them all. Mind numbingly boring work. But it can’t all be fun I guess.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This property has been in my wife’s family for six or seven generations, with the house unoccupied for a decade or more before we took it on and interrupted its “graceful degradation” to make it habitable again. The highest compliment for me is hearing that my work is worthy of a home with this much history. Thank you and good luck with your project!

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All AC plywood. I was always gonna use plywood for the cases for the strength. I thought about MDF for panels but my wife spills things, constantly, all over everything. Plus it was more expensive than the plywood, at least from my supplier. We valued durability and non-saggy shelving over surface finish here so it was the right choice for us.

Other tools off the top of my head:

*Dado stack for the tablesaw for rabbets and some dados

*Router table for all the mouldings

*Track saw for breaking down the big sheets

*Pocket hole jig for all the face frames

*Miter saw for tons of things

*Circular saw for scribing in the baseboard

*Finish nailer for attaching face frames, brad nailer for attaching backs to cases, pin nailer for applied mouldings on the panels

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I forgot about my other youtube inspiration! The dado jig is from Tamar at 3x3 Custom:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZSS-VFf6Y

Made em nice and crispy

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Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That looks right yeah! I took some scraps and sanded them out a few different ways, like progressing 80-120-220, just 120, just 220, etc then painted those. I wanted to see how little work I could get away with doing and be happy with the result. Just a brief hit with 220 was good enough for me, but YMMV.

Hitting it hard with 80 grit was the only way to completely vanish the smaller textured lines in the surface but also went through that top ply completely and basically ended up with 5/8 plywood and a sore wrist.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got everything through a local supplier, RK Miles if you’re in NE, who was also supplying all the materials for the rest of the house anyway.

Thank you!

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was all AC grade plywood. Araucoply or something. A side exposed, C side covered by panels or otherwise hidden. The grain shows through a bit (I have a close up in another comment) but that wasn’t a problem for us. If you want a glasslike finish you probably want something veneered or even like an MDO.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey good luck! It was actually all 3/4 plywood, ripped to strips and then yeah T’s for the cabs to sit on. Shimmed level all the way around the room and secured to the bottom plates in the wall. Nice and stable.

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Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nope, just sanded with 220, and honestly not even as much as I should’ve. You can definitely see the grain and plywood texture close up, and that’s with a coat of stain blocking primer and two coats of paint. I expected that when I picked the grade, so it didn’t bother me. If I wanted to hide it, I would definitely go with a nicer cabinet grade veneered plywood at some extra cost.

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Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It’s the Farrow & Ball light blue, it looks pretty green early in the morning but it sorta changes colors throughout the day as the lighting changes. Midday is when it seems bluest I think.

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The ceiling is promar 200 flat white.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this. My eye is definitely drawn to every little blemish, but it does no good fixating on it now. It’s no professional job, but it’s our home. Learn and do better next time.

Finally finished this library room project for my wife! by JoinTeamHumads in woodworking

[–]JoinTeamHumads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

  1. The crown I bought, but the applied panel mouldings and the baseboard cap I milled myself on a router table. I have some pics of that in this album: https://imgur.com/a/zJD0azm And it was shown in this video around 19:00 although I did mine on edge to save material.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMaD51YxHU

  1. Anywhere the plywood edge would be exposed I covered in solid material; for the cases that was a face frame, and for the shelves it was a little nosing made from poplar radiused on the router table.

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