Family Room Facelift

[Jeff Magnus]

This is a project I finished up the end of last summer. The customer wanted to tile in an existing brick fireplace with a possible mantle shelf. I suggested we incorporate columns that would act as storage for all the TV components and help make the room appear bigger. That is what they agreed to do. All construction of this mantle and column/cabinet was performed with Festool. Assembly was 100% glue and Dominos. Only other non Festool was obviously the tilesaw.

 

[nickao]

Ohh looks like some figured and/or some Curly Walnut.

 

[Jeff Magnus]

Curly indeed. Out here in the PNW we like it rough

 

[johnsonri]

Very nice!!

Question, is that a door attached to the columns? If it is a door, is it sturdy without a panel for the rails and stiles?

If it isn't a door, how do you get the components inside?

 

[bella]

Go JM GO!! - I got your back bro!!

 

[Jeff Magnus]

Very nice!!

Question, is that a door attached to the columns? If it is a door, is it sturdy without a panel for the rails and stiles?

If it isn't a door, how do you get the components inside?

Thank you.

That is the face frame. I went round and round on whether or not to add doors. I really wanted this piece to look like more of a traditional mantle then a shelf running across a pair of cabinets. Unfortunately, the Comcast box determined the width and depth of the column. Otherwise, I would of downsized them by a third.

Getting the components inside is tricky. The inside of the carcass is only 6mm bigger then the Comcast box either way. So one must set them on the diagonal, then raise the shelf up to it and install the pins. Its now the Comcast technicians problem ;D