Juicegoose Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 The wife has been bugging me to build her this entertainment center she saw the other day and I finally caved. As you can see in the picture is should be a simple project with case construction a face frame and then some decorative moulding here and there. My concern came when I noticed the building techniques that were used to build the original piece. You see my thoughts are to make the case fronts all equal then build a 3/4" face frame. From that face frame you would then attach your doors, beaded case mouldings, rope mouldings etc. What I noticed though was that the frame the cabinet doors were attached to had been inset into the carcass cavity in each bay. Like you can see in this pictures. Then the decorative moulding was attached to that. The only reason I can see they did this was to keep the total depth of the piece down. The mounting of the frame member inside the cabinet cavity was not the greatest but still it confused me. Your thoughts and more importantly how you would go about doing this would be great. Also I attached a couple extra pics. What do you guys think they used for the base moulding and how they built the grown moulding section It looks like they attached a sub layer of wood under the base moulding then I'm guessing some custom moulding. Your thoughts? ? This will be my first large piece so all help is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimV Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Hi, I made this similar item last year. Maybe it might help with the layout possibilities. I used the cabinet bottom to attach base and extended the walls above the height above the doors to allow for a crown to be attached. Inside, under the bottom base moulding are reinforcement blocks. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmac Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I have to guess that the inset frame was built that way to give the doors something to close against. It also might have something to do with how the hinges for the inner two doors are mounted. I can't see in the pictures how they did that, and it may be that they were trying to build it so that none of the hinges were visible from the front. -- Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juicegoose Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 The doors were mounted with standard euro face frame hinges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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