How To Construct A Modern Dresser Bookshelf Combo

Remember my boys' shoe storage nightstand? A.K.A. The most useful slice of article of furniture I've e'er built. 

Well, she forthwith has a large brother. My sons' sleeping room is teeny tiny (10 x 10) together with infinite is a premium. I've had to larn creative coming upwards amongst article of furniture that maximizes infinite (like their modern bunk beds) together with storage (like their nightstand). I decided to create a dresser/bookshelf mash-up to restrict the pose out of large pieces taking upwards flooring infinite together with land I was at it, I figured this would move a smashing chance to portion some of my article of furniture finishing tips together with tricks. 

Staining together with sealing forest is kinda my jam. I've genuinely made a few dissimilar staining videos for my YouTube channel. I usually am looking for going for a professional person "store bought" complete for my homemade furniture. Technique plays some part, but it's genuinely all virtually the kinda of products yous use! I accept tried but virtually every form of stain together with sealer out at that topographic point together with I overstep away on coming dorsum to the same combo: non-grain-raising stain, forest toner, together with lacquer. 

*This postal service is sponsored by RPM Wood Finishes Group and contains affiliate links. All opinions are uninfluenced together with my own.

Materials List:

• (2) 3/4" x 4' x 8' plywood
• (1) 1/4" x 4' x 8' plywood
• (4) 1 x x x 96"
• (2) 2 x 2 x 96"
• (19) *3/4" x 3/4" x 36" foursquare forest dowels or (8) 3/4" x 3/4" x 96"

• (3)  *18" drawer slides
• (8) *shelf back upwards pins
• *2" #8 forest screws
• *1-1/4" steal hole screws
• *2-1/2" steal hole screws
• *iron-on border banding
• *wood glue

• *circular saw or *table saw
• *miter saw
• *cordless drill
• *Kreg jig
• *speed square
• *edge banding trimmer
• *24" bar clamps

• *Behlen Pre-Stain Clear Wood Stain Base 
• *Behlen Solor-Lux Stain - Cherry
• *Behlen Master Dye Toner - Dark Wanut
• *Mohawk Ultra-flo Clear Lacquer - satin
• *Behlen Rockhard Table Top Varnish - satin

Cut List:

• (2) 3/4" plywood @ 73-3/4" x 20" (notched according to diagram)
• (2) 3/4" plywood @ 16" x 29-3/4"
• (2) 3/4" plywood @ twenty x 29-3/4"
• (1) 1/4" plywood @ 30-1/4" x 73-3/4"

• (2) 3/4" plywood @ 15-1/2" x 18"

• (3) 1/4" plywood @ 17-5/8" x 34" (approx.- mensurate opening earlier cutting)
• (6) 1 x 10 @ 18-3/8"
• (6) 1 x 10 @ 31" (approx.- mensurate opening earlier cutting)

• (21) 1 x 1 @ 35-7/8"
• (36) 1 x 1 @ 11-7/8"

• (2) 2 x 2 @ trapezoid cutting at fifteen degrees off foursquare - 9-7/8" brusk goal to brusk end
• (2) 2 x 2 @ trapezoid cutting at fifteen degrees off foursquare - 13-7/8" brusk goal to brusk end
• (8) 2 x 2 parallel, cutting at fifteen degrees off square, long goal to brusk end

1. The starting fourth dimension mensuration is to cutting your pieces downwards to size. Cut everything except the drawer box pieces, TRUST ME! Below is the cutting diagram for the top together with bottom pieces. 

2. Before yous start to get together the pieces, apply iron-on border banding to raw plywood edges. You may desire to stain together with complete the pieces at this point. If yous piece of occupation a *Non Grain Raising Stain together with *lacquer routine similar I did, your pieces volition dry out quickly, but brand certain they accept had enough of fourth dimension cure earlier yous bang them about equally good much. 

3. Align the 16" x 29-3/4" plywood panels along the edges of the bottom panel. Attach together through 3/4" steal holes, using forest gum together with 1-1/4" steal hole screws. 

4. Align 20" broad panels along the exterior border of the centre protrusion (the 36" broad section). Attach through 3/4" steal holes, using gum together with 1-1/4" steal holes. 

5. Place the dresser top on top of the cabinet frame. Attach through 3/4" steal holes, using gum together with 1-1/4" screws. 

6. To move able to larn all the pieces yous request from ane canvass of 1/4" plywood, piece of occupation the cutting diagram below. 

Pre-drill holes about 8-10" apart, about the perimeter of the 1/4" backer board. Attach panel to the dorsum side of the cabinet frame using 1-1/4" screws. 

7. Attach trapezoidal centre rails to pairs of legs, creating 2 13" long leg sections

 and 2 17" long leg sections. 

8. Flip the cabinet over, exposing the bottom panel. Apply forest gum together with attach 13" legs 1-1/2" from exterior edges together with front end together with dorsum of cabinet, using 2" forest screws. Attach 17" legs even to the border of the centre protrusion together with 1-1/2" from the front end together with dorsum of cabinet. 

9. DON'T BUILD YOUR DRAWER BOXES UNTIL YOU ASSEMBLE THE CABINET FRAME! Measure the width of the centre cabinet opening. Add 1" to larn the finally width of the drawer boxes. Follow this tutorial to gear upwards iii boxes, about 34-3/4" x 18-3/8" x 9-1/4". 

Once the drawer boxes are built, evenly infinite boxes inward the centre cabinet opening, together with install amongst 18" drawer slides. 

10. Apply stain together with complete to the front end side of the drawer boxes. I approximate if you're genuinely fancy yous could complete the whole box, but entirely the front end panel volition move seen. 

11. Just similar the door from my Shoe Storage Nightstand, piece of occupation 1 x 1 dowels (actually 3/4" x 3/4") to create three, 35-7/8" x 9-3/4" drawer faces. 

Since the faces are made from together with therefore many pieces that are the same length, I highly recommend setting upwards a halt block on your saw or bench together with therefore yous tin brand repeated cuts quickly.

Working quickly, alternately stack 35-7/8" long dowels together with 11-7/8" dowels, spaced 11-7/8" apart. Once inward place, piece of occupation a fleck block together with a *speed square to business everything up. Clamp the boards together together with wipe off access glue. Once the gum is fully dried (usually overnight), sand or bird the faces smooth.

12. Attach the drawer faces to the front end side of the drawer boxes, using 1-1/4" screws driven from the inside. There should move 1/8" gap betwixt between each drawer human face upwards together with betwixt the faces together with the cabinet panels. 

13. In the opened upwards (bookshelf) sides of the cabinet, drill holes for shelf pins, next the directions on the package. Some pins sit down below the shelf together with some concord the board centered. 

14. Place the shelves on the back upwards pins together with that's it! 

It's amazing how a brace coats of *wood toner together with *sprayed lacquer tin transform inexpensive pino plywood. Not entirely does it hold back good, but lacquer dries inward a fraction of the fourth dimension of other sealers similar polyurethane. Good intelligence for my impatient self. 

This slice is heading to my boys' room, but I kinda brutal inward dear amongst it staged equally a modern amusement centre or credenza. This spot unremarkably sports a mid-century dresser, but I genuinely similar how the bookshelves display all my pretties. 

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