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I rarely bend to a request but in this case the person revealed a desire for a "simple" bookcase. "I can do a simple bookcase!" ...or can I? What I envisioned was a light, airy frame of Knotty pine, with just a few design enhancements. I took this on as a challenge to see if I could deliver something "simple". As this photos shows, the bookcase just blends in to its surroundings and offers little effect on the rooms decor. 'No backing' lets the wall colour come through and the lightness of the wood gives the books the foreground. |
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The sides disappear into the top and bottom. The curve of the top and bottom pieces (more evident in further photos) is reversed for the corner braces. Usually the routered design on the sides is on the outside of the unit but I wanted it facing in, for the immediate vision of the person standing in front of and using, the bookcase. On top you can just barely see one of the two doorknobs I added, set verically, one on each side, for finish.
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Here is that curve, which took a fabricated '11 foot compass' to draw (I think my shop is only 12 feet wide). A simple box construction was used for a kickboard/base so you could still stand right up next to the books.
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On the inside of the sides I matched a river of pink flowing down through the pine. On the outsides I roughly matched a set of large knots. (Proablbly no-one will notice but me.)
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In a moment of design weakness I routered a design onto each shelf which matches the length of the un-routered section on the sides. It just seems to add something, ...advancing the "piece-of-wood" shelves into the whole.
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We are working in WOOD, folks. WOOD is a wonder of nature not a manufactured, homogenous material. Just look at this....this...'Angel Wing'. The only reason I would have cut if off would have been to mount it on my mantel.
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I took the measurement of the space between the window and the baseboard heater element and when the piece was finished, it miraculously fit. This doesn't always happen to me.
I love doing certain things by hand...like rounding off the shelf corners.
Now,....did I K-I-S-S?
(Keep It Simple, Stupid!)
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