Sylvia's bookcase
Jeremy Osner
>Got my scanner working... Here is a picture of the wall unit in Sylvia's room. The material is s4s poplar, mostly joined with dowels and nails; but I did use a couple of hand tool techniques. The frames of the bookcases (i.e. the upper part on each side) are dovetailed together; and the cabinet doors are joined with something similar to mortise-and-tenons that I think is called bridle joints? (The mortise extends all the way out to the end of the board.)
Installing this wall unit was part of a general repainting of the room; also I put in a chair rail on every wall except the wall you are looking at. (I made the chair rail out of a baseboard cap molding I bought at HD, by planing off the top of the molding.) When Sylvia gets too tall for that table in the middle, I am going to build a desk extending between the two units.