Ladies walk in closet

[Cort]

Here is a project I recently finished.  It is a walk in closet for a lady.  The cabinets were painted as knock down panels, and then assembled in the closet.  An assembled cabinet is too large to fit through the closet door.  All the panels are joined with Dominos, and then pulled together with pocket screws.  All of the shelves are adjustable thanks to the LR32 system, and this includes the lighted shelves.  The materials are primarily CFP plywood, poplar wood for face frames, Hafele closet hardware, Hafele LED lighting, and General Finishes paints.  The finish was applied with an airless sprayer offsite prior to assembly. 

It is almost impossible to get good quality photos in the closet due to the lens of my cellphone camera.

 

[Cort]

Milling sheet stock.



Drilling holes for shelf pins with LR32 system.





Installing adjustable leveling feet.







Painting the panels.











Assembling the pieces.












Scribing the faceframe to the wall prior to painting it.

 

[Cort]

More assembly.


Pocket screws and dominos.

 

[Cort]

Yes, the ceiling lights had to be moved.


Clip on toe kick using Peter Meier imported leveler system.


Rev-a-shelf valet rod.

 

[Cort]

Detail of lighted shelf underside.

 

[tallgrass]

Are the lit shelves adjustable?  Where did you get the lights? Nice job.

 

[ajones]

Neat looking job the lighting looks great.

it can be quite hard and time consuming working in a small space.

 

[Brian Livingstone]

Very impressive work ! 

Two questions, I note you build your cabinets with face frames, and use the LR32 system.  Is the LR32 then strictly for drilling shelf pin holes ?  I build face frame cabinets, and am contemplating the LR32.

What kind of an airless finish sprayer are you using, and which General Paint did you use ?

Thanks, and again my compliments for the beautiful work.

Brian
Fall River, Nova Scotia

 

[Cort]

Two questions, I note you build your cabinets with face frames, and use the LR32 system.  Is the LR32 then strictly for drilling shelf pin holes ?  I build face frame cabinets, and am contemplating the LR32.

What kind of an airless finish sprayer are you using, and which General Paint did you use ?

Brian
Fall River, Nova Scotia

Thank you for your kind words.  The LR32 system is primarily for drilling shelf pin holes, but it can also be used to drill the cupped recesses for Euro style hinges.  There are some really great videos on this system on YouTube (search YouTube for Festool LR32).  If you don't have a dedicated line boring machine for drilling your shelf pin holes, then the LR32 system in the next best thing.

I used a Graco airless sprayer for the finish, but I think it would have been better to use an HVLP system (which I don't have).  It was a real challenge to get the face frames coated without tearing/drips on the edges.  With the airless and my smallest tip, I just couldn't get a thin enough coat on the edges.  In fact one of the face frames took literally 9 coats with sanding in between before I got it right.  The finish is General Finishes White Enduro Undercoat (2 coats) and General Finishes Enduro White Pigmented Poly (2 to 3 coats) with 320 grit sanding in between each coat.  General's primer is awesome.  It has high solids, quick drying, and easy sandability.  These are all water borne finishes.  I had the white top coat pigmented at my local paint shop; they tinted it free of charge BTW.

 

[Sparktrician]

Very nicely done, Cort.  What's the door for?  Electrical connection access? 

 

[fatroman]

That looks really nice. Congrats!

What's the piece of PEX for?

Did you have your crown pre-painted, too? Or was that done on site.

Is the access hatch for the LED transformer?

 

[Cort]

The transformers for the lights are mounted in an enclosure covered by a flush mount door in one of the side panels.  Each cabinet has its own transformer for the top mounted, 350 mA constant current Hafele 4009 LED lights.  I must have looked at the Hafele lighting catalog a hundred times while choosing the lights.  The lighted shoe shelves with their LED strip lights are run by a single separate Mean Well 12 VDC 5A transformer.  These transformers are all high-efficiency switching type transformers.  Despite their switching nature, I find them to be inaudible.  Total power consumption of all 4 transformers is less than 150 watts.









Plastic ENMT aka "Smurf tube" conveys the low voltage wires for the top mounted recessed lights to the transformer cabinet.  This way, replacing a fixture won't be so difficult later.




Flexible MC cable carries the line voltage to the transformer box.  Power comes from the wall switch and up through the floor.  The removable toe kick allows for access to the lower, line-level junction box.

 

[mouppe]

Looks very good. I also like the shaker tall chest in the second photo. The modern and traditional side by side works well.

 

[rvieceli]

Truly outstanding work.

Which series of the led strip lights are those? They look pretty sweet. Did you install a diffuser or just the bare tape?

 

[nclemmons]

Excellent work.  Love all the conveniences and details.

Neil

 

[Cort]

Truly outstanding work.

Which series of the led strip lights are those? They look pretty sweet. Did you install a diffuser or just the bare tape?

Light strips are Hafele 2015 series Loox 12 VDC 3200k that I cut to length.  I soldered wires to the pads on each end of the LED strips rather than rely on Hafele's quick connectors.  I used "milk white" diffusers over the LED strips.  The diffusers come with Hafele's aluminum channel.

 

[basimerly]

Very impressive work !!  The way you handled the electrical work is great.  I've always had a great appreciation for when someone can hid those items well and keep everything functional, and aesthetically pleasing at the same time.  I'm defiantly keeping this post in my mental filing cabinet for reference. 

-Ben

 

[RKA]

Very very nice!  Love all the details and thought that went into this.  I have wire rack shelving in my master closet and would love to build out something like this.  I have two fears.  My skills need a lot of honing before I tackle something like this and putting too many cabinets into the space will make it feel like a closet rather than a walk in closet (have between 80-100 sf to work with).  For now I'll practice my cabinet making on workshop cabinets and see how that goes, but I'm saving this post for ideas if/when I work up to doing that closet.  Thanks for sharing the great work!
Raj

 

[Stone Message]

A lovely piece of work Cort. I think that the pocket hole jig with dry dominos is a great way to create sturdy yet elegant cupboards.

The lighting choice is (literally) brilliant.

Peter

 

[Sparktrician]

Excellent execution!!!