I talked to Beckie last night about door options for her studio cabinets and drew up a few different ideas for her to choose from.
I sketched up this rough drawing for her to visualize the completed built-ins when we first started this studio project. We talked about doors. I knew she wanted them but knew doors were a LONG way off and I didn’t draw them into the sketch.
This is what I thought she wanted. I kept talking about decorative baskets and cool containers. Turns out she was wondering why I kept talking about about what her craft supplies were stored in. She did mention plastic tubs at one point…but I didn’t catch on.
Last night, when it came time to measure the opening so I could draw her plans for the doors, I told her to measure top to bottom …and she stood up on a chair. Turns out Beckie was picturing doors that covered the entire cabinet opening. It totally doesn’t matter. Nothing in the cabinet changes. It’s just totally funny that neither one of us knew what the other was assuming.
So, with the need for MUCH taller cabinet doors, I decided to give her some options. I thought it would be fun to share those options with you too and then see what happens.
Here we go:
Option 1. Most basic. Easiest to build.
Option 2: Step it up with an extra rail. Makes construction a bit more complicated but totally doable.
Option 3: Three inset panels with one more additional rail. Even a little more tricky but still doable.
Option 4: OK, so this is not even a real option for Beckie. She’d punch me in the face (if she could reach me though the screen) when she was trying to build these. But I drew it, so I’m going to share! 
We’ll see which one Beckie chooses. Which option do you like best?
Want to see the cabinets so far? Studio Project: Part 3 Part 2 Part 1
Tags: Built Ins, Craft Room, doors, Studio
Okay. well. personally, i understand why she went with #2… higher end look. but i prefer #3 myself. It wouldn’t be *that much* harder in the end…
But…. where I’d change would be to do the end cabinet on each wall (so from left side, cabinet 1, cabinet 4m then cabinet 1 and cabinet 5 on the back wall with the tall doors. cabinets 2 and 3 on left and 2, 3, and 4 on the back would get glass shelving and built in over head pot lights.
then you can stash pretty items in mason jars, move a set of shelves farther apart for a stack of craft books on a short shelf and like for me, a sewer, i’d make a nice big square glass shelf area for my child’s pinnable body form to sit with my latest design on it…. (I’m actually doing something similar in my studio, but instead of building it all, i’m repurposing a MASSIVE wall unit 3 piece entertainment center. My body form is going in the big hollow part where up to a 42″ tv would fit… painting it out white and fitting it with fabric backgrounds and hidden lights to also serve as a light box. double purpose, baby, ftw!
anyway. those are my thoughts.
I am not adverse to walls of closed off cabinets. frankly, I like the uniform tidiness of it all. LOL! keeping it organized behind the dooors really is just a matter of good organization before you put it IN the cabinet and then self-discipline…. much like we tell our children. *this box is for legos… this one is for hot wheels. don’t put legos in the hot wheel box…* when my kidlet struggled with this, he had pics on the ends of the bins…. he just had to follow the pictures.
and since they’re all going to be painted out white (wasn’t that it?) it isn’t going to look cluttered or walled off. your eye is going to see them as a non-event.
other wise you would be visually stunted by every wall in your house. when they’re all one color, same as the wall or trim or whatever, your eye just works with your brain and it *goes away*…. so no worries there, either.