Grand Dad (Doug) built
a Baby Cradle before Ashlyn was born, it has now been handed down for
Andrew to use along with Ashlyn's Baby Bed.
Cassie wanted a
"changing table" and the room needed a dresser, so it was time to go to
work on the design to create one, then to build it. |
Materials List
The design started out
to use Maple, instead of Birch, until the visit to Paxton's to buy the
lumber. Once the salesman showed me two beautiful pieces of "curly"
Birch, I couldn't resist. We wanted "curly figured" wood for the
drawer fronts, like I used on the Cradle. The Baby Bed is out of
Birch or Maple one, can't really tell so this will look good with either
piece of baby furniture it ends up next to.
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One 4'x8' sheet of
3/4" Birch Plywood - for the main dresser housing
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One 5'x5' sheet of
1/2" Birch Plywood - for the drawer sides
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One 4'x8' sheet of
Birch Plywood - for the drawer bottoms
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x board feet of 4/4"
Birch Lumber - to be milled to make the drawer fronts, door, baseboard
and edges of the top.
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Four sets of Blum
bottom mount drawer guides - didn't want them visible when the drawers
were opened.
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One set of Blum
face-frame hinges
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Five drawer knobs
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#20 biscuits to join
all glue-ups for drawers and most of the dresser
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1/4" wooden dowels
were used to glue the cross pieces of the face-framing
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a handful of screws
for mounting the tops to the dresser
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1-1/4" brads hold
the back on the dresser
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lots of sandpaper,
80 grit to 330 grit
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Minwax Polyurethane
(brush application)
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