Bookcase Face Frame
The bookcases and cabinets were made in a simple face frame style so that moulding could be chosen and added to fill in the gaps between the cabinets and the wall.
Bookcase face frame. Don t design one if you plan to include lights. Some bookcase designs are frameless. Add edging to the sides.
Trim off the excess edging with a handsaw and sand it flush with the plywood. Face frame bookcase assembly on site here are several suggestions for how to assemble a built in bookshelf cabinet on site focusing on face frame issues july 29 2014. Build a box and add face frames.
This edging keeps the plywood veneer from chipping. I m building built in bookcases that are 35 wide and butt up against each other. Adding the face frame start with the horizontal base rail at the bottom of the bookcase.
There s no place to hide them. This article describes the creation of a built in entertainment system using built to order arthur brown face frame bookcases and cabinets with custom trim used to trim it out and give it a built in look. Cut the plywood box parts to size then glue strips of wood to the bottom edges of the box sides.
I want to face the exposed edges with 2 hardwood frame after the cabinets are all installed and fixed together. The bookshelves are made of two primary sets of parts the case and the face frame the case is made up of side panels with shelf pin holes for the adjustable shelves a top a bottom and a back. Question woodweb member.
The extra couple inches on either side of the shelves are simply dead space and get covered up by the bookshelf face frame. Due to the size of the bookshelves i intended to fix the stiles directly to the ply cabinets and then in fill with the rails rather than build a fully joined frame assembly.
