How do I turn the corner with this?

[rnt80]

I've got a pretty sizeable job that will require about 25' of gun cabinets much like the one below.  The room that's getting these will have cabinets on adjacent walls - about 9' worth, run into an inside corner and then another 4' on each side of the room.  I'm not sure how I'm going to tackle the corner.  The problem arises with the lower portion of the cab that holds the pistols.  I was thinking of putting in a corner cabinet that would span the corner at 45 degrees but I still that that would cause issues the the slanted portion of the lowers.  Any suggestions?

 

[Holzhacker]

We had this similar scenario come up when I used to do custom 'dressing room' cabinetry in high end homes. Get to an inside corner and what do you do. You have to spread the wall cabinets away from the corners so that doors and drawers have clearance to open. What we did most of the time, clients usually liked it ...
- instead of keeping the cabinets tight to the corner to minimize lost space, we would spread the cabinets away from the corner and make an open shelf ledge, mirror and a recessed can 'resting area'. The sales pitch was, if you a pulling stuff out of those cabinets you may want someplace to rest, set or hang those items as you choose which you will actually use. In your case, guy pulls and item out of a drawer and uses the space to 'rest it' while he locks up.
- putt enough fillers in the corner to spread it out enough and make it a detail with robe or tie hooks, in your case  maybe a resting station for a longarm
- We tried 45 degree corner cabinets a couple times in the shop they never looked or worked right, always a waste of space and awkward
Hope that helps, gotta go ...

 

[tDot]

I agree that a 45 cabinet would be too large especially with only 4' on each of the returning walls.  The 45 cabinet would take up the majority of each wall.

I played with a similar problem once, and in all honesty I was able to convince the client to move towards curved front cabinets.  But the last design that I was playing with involved meeting the outside face of the lower cabinet at 90 degrees. The upper portion extended into the corner several more inches and then flowed around the corner with a 45 cabinet that was operational, and maintaining a depth closer to the upper cabinets (as opposed to becoming an abnormally deep cabinet), and there was an infill piece that joined the upper 45 degree cabinet and the lower 90 degree cabinet.  It almost gives the illusion of a recessed upper corner cabinet.  Any of the gables and infill pieces could easily be detailed.

I hope that makes some form of sense.

Good luck

 

[ccmviking]

I've got a pretty sizeable job that will require about 25' of gun cabinets much like the one below.  The room that's getting these will have cabinets on adjacent walls - about 9' worth, run into an inside corner and then another 4' on each side of the room.  I'm not sure how I'm going to tackle the corner.  The problem arises with the lower portion of the cab that holds the pistols.  I was thinking of putting in a corner cabinet that would span the corner at 45 degrees but I still that that would cause issues the the slanted portion of the lowers.  Any suggestions?

Your best bet is going to be to make a inside corner post (box) that's decorative and run your cabs into each side.  An angle corner setup won't work well with your design of the upper and lower configuration.  You could do a clipped corner and the column and decorate it to match your cabs so that everything ties together.  You could make some hidden doors in the cabinets that terminate into the box corner to hide some stuff too.

Chris...

 

[rnt80]

I've got a pretty sizeable job that will require about 25' of gun cabinets much like the one below.  The room that's getting these will have cabinets on adjacent walls - about 9' worth, run into an inside corner and then another 4' on each side of the room.  I'm not sure how I'm going to tackle the corner.  The problem arises with the lower portion of the cab that holds the pistols.  I was thinking of putting in a corner cabinet that would span the corner at 45 degrees but I still that that would cause issues the the slanted portion of the lowers.  Any suggestions?

Your best bet is going to be to make a inside corner post (box) that's decorative and run your cabs into each side.  An angle corner setup won't work well with your design of the upper and lower configuration.   You could do a clipped corner and the column and decorate it to match your cabs so that everything ties together.  You could make some hidden doors in the cabinets that terminate into the box corner to hide some stuff too.
Chris...

Chris,

I like the idea of the box as well as the previous suggestion of a resting place for a long arm.  I'm going to play with those this weekend.  I having a hard time envisioning what your describing above in bold.  Anyway that you could do a quick sketch and post it?