I would love to see what the back looks like. We had to do the same thing because our hidden bookcase door is put in a deep inset door. It was originally an outside door but we added a room to it(a bedroom. As a result it’s very deep. We have the hidden little piece of trim with hinge like you do. We weren’t able to use the Murphy door hinge. I’m not sure how to make the inside of it look better. I’m just wondering if you have any ideas
I built something similar years ago. I needed a workbench, and some shelves for storing power tools. I built the entire thing out of 5/8ths plywood, 2x6, 2x4, and some 5,000 lb car parts shipping rack casters I got for free. Coated the entire thing with black enamel paint. I was planning on putting a steel top on it but steel was higher than a kite at the time. 73x24. It's a beast. It'll outlive me, and probably all of my kids too. Always been curious as to what it weighs. I don't guess I had $300 hard cash into it though.
This is the first one that I have seen with a hinged piece of trim instead of moving the hinge of the door itself. I can't decide whether this is more work than it needs to be or a neat idea
That wood is nasty to burn. It smells horrible. You can recycle pallets for a few dollars up to $10 depending on the type of pallet and the condition. You can get good money for the blue painted Shep's pallets. There is always a poor soul that collects pallets from the back of stores that would take that off your hands or dump it nicely in the stack behind most big retail stores like grocery stores.
Geesh! So many critiques. This was an excellent idea. A thief is not going to look for this. It does exactly what it was intended to do. It is not a safe room, although you could use it for hiding in, if needed. A simple rod, attached to the back of the trim, would allow you to pull the trim back in, when you close it from the rear.
You should have used a measured quantity of adhesive. Now, you cannot eliminate the possibility that any differences may be due to more or less adhesive on surfaces.
I'm right we're you are with woodworking but I've been doing it 45 years And yes I make mistakes as well but I don't have the equipment that you have and I'm disabled now I'm 63 and have been doing it since I was 15 off and on to start . Then full time after a while and you know what they say if you have a job you love you will never work a day in your life I've done framing , boxing and siding , and my love decks I found I could be real creative with those but now I'm in a 12 x 16 shed building bird houses and such and again I can get creative with them , but I'm not online because I don't want to be pushed by anyone to hurry up because they want it now I sell a few and give a lot away , and I can't hurry anymore because of my disability and some days i cant stand up long enough to get anything done but I have fun and to me that's what it is about
Oh and the other reason I'm not online is I don't want to hear any badmouthing, I just wish I could heat or cool my shed and the sawdust on my floor is about a inch thick in the shallow areas and 6 inches under my table saw lol
@DanielDunlap great F ing video! Great way to keep the sawdust off all of the power tools usually stacked in that spot under the bench! and of course more space! One question for you and everyone, why the hell do people not put some finish on their drawers? I have watched a lot of these videos for ways to not use hardware and no one seems to varnish these cabinets and drawers. Maybe they do after and not on the video to save time.
I liked your video, very helpful! No music or overly verbose talking, just showing how it's done - Getting ready to do this for the wife also... Thanks!
I have been looking to standardize my drawers throughout my shop. Not long ago I stumbled onto @HookedonWood. The only problem I am having with his drawer system is that it's metric. My brain just can't flip back and forth between the two. I am lucky as I don't currently have any cabinets built. Over the weekend I've been watching @JohnHeisz and his homemade drawer slides. I'm going to try them out for a Miter Saw Station cart I built from Brad @Fixthisbuildthat. There are two open areas at the top of the cart that would great to test them out. Any how, John Heisz has plans for a Large Tool Box using his homemade drawer slides. I plan to build two of those rather than stationary cabinets. My shop is is in a garage, and I like the flexibility of my tools being mobile. If I like them with the Miter Saw cart, I just might deploy them with the Large Tool Box. If I don't, then this will be the style. The main concern about the drawer system you used us humidity. I planned to use 1/2" MDF as my drawer bottoms. Which has me leaning towards the homemade drawer slides. Would love to know how your drawers are holding up.
I would recommend placing smaller magnets along the backside of the little hinge and keeping a larger handheld one inside of that room in advance. That way you can close the hinge from inside. And simply using that small gap at the top left to push it open from inside so you don't trap yourself.
