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Check out my recent work posted on my blog. My work centers around custom cabinetry and woodworking for the home and office.
Design on the Fly
How an idea evolves into a design, which then evolves into a physical object.
Cherry Everywhere
Bob and Mary loved Cherry wood. So how does one create built-ins that fit the room that is Cherry from floor to ceiling?
Teapot Display
These homeowners desired maximum use of wall space without completely obliterating its horizontally applied western pine paneling.
About Me
For more than 30 years I have been designing and constructing custom cabinets and casework.
Gordon A. Hastreiter
8979 Bailey Drive
Woodruff, WI 54568
(715) 356-2169
Cherry, Cherry Everywhere ...
The significant advantages of custom designed and constructed cabinetry and casework are:
1. Maximum utilization of available space.
2. Visual synchronization with the environment.
3. The opportunity to incorporate adequate but not excessive space
for unique and specific objects.
4. The use of materials that hold the most appeal to the owner.
Homeowners Bob and Mary did not hide their attraction to cherry wood. It covered the ceiling, walls, and floor of their large Family Room. Several pieces of antique Chinese furniture characterized strength and gentleness with their use of thicker wood parts - the edges of which had been generously radiused.
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Photo #1 Click image to enlarge |
Bob and Mary wished to incorporate these properties in a proposed built-in shelf system and storage cabinets in the Family Room. They wished to diminish the presence of a piano in the room by inserting it into a recess created by storage cabinets at each end and display shelves above. They wanted the construction to be very solid and permanent.
Sheets of cherry veneered MDF (medium density fiberboard) were machined to make partitions, shelves, end panels and door panels and then coated with a clear polyurethane finish to blend with the wall paneling.
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Photo #2 Click image to enlarge |
To cover exposed edges of MDF, trim pieces manufactured from cherry lumber were pre-finished in the same way.
The lighter colored vertical lines on the wall shown in Photo #1 are the result of routing grooves into the paneling which would receive a tongue machined on the edge of an MDF partition. By inserting the partitions and end-panels in this way, they were solidly locked to the wall and a seamless appearance resulted from the mirrored reflection of the individual wall paneling boards on to the MDF partitions as seen in Photo #2.
The end product will serve its intended purposes for a long time to come!