I have decided to redo all of our bedroom furniture and my wife and I
decided to go with the Arts & Crafts look. I got the design idea from a bed
I saw at an Amish furniture store and basically designed the furniture
around that bed design. I will eventually be building the bed and adding
drawers on the bottom and building a larger taller dresser. The tower
cabinets pictured will have a light bridge of some sort added.

The project is and will be built with mostly quarter sawn oak and panels and
cherry for high lights on the doors and drawer handles. So far only the
cabinet doors have had a finish applied using Lawrence McFadden gel varnish,
3 coats. And in the pictures the doors are simly setting in place, they
have not yet been attached.

I designed the entire project on Sketchup and utilized Cutlist 4.0 to gather
component information about size and material and then imported that data
into Cutlist Plus 2009. The merge of information was flawless and took
seconds to complete with out error.

The smaller doors are composed of 25 separate pieces of oak and cherry for
each, the upper larger doors are composed of 15 pieces of cherry and oak for
each. Each of the 6 drawers have/ will have 12 pieces of oak and cherry and
BB panels for the container part.. Outer side panels of the towers have 15
separate pieces and the inner side panels have 12 separate pieces. Face
frames 8 pieces each, back panels 9 pieces. Then there were countless
Domino loose tennons used on the face frame, back panel, and the ,4 on each
tower, fixed shelves that hold it all together. Each fixed shelf has 8
Domino tennons, so in the shelves alone on both towers they had 64 Domino
tennons that had to align perfectly in each of their respective locations.
The 128 mortises for these tennons were all cut prior to assembly of the
side, front and back panels. Alignment was critical when assembling the
tower panels so that the fixed shelves would later mate properly. Frankly I
was surprised that it all went together as planned. I had contingency plans
for eliminating some tennons if necessary.

Questions?