The practical book of built-in furniture

About this book

This is a basic how-to book designed for the beginner in home carpentering and cabinetmaking as well as the advanced do-it-yourselfer. Both will find it an exceedingly useful and practical guide to constructing beautiful built-in furniture for every room in the house. The early portion of the book tell the reader how to master fundamental construction- joints, frames, drawers, doors, and so on. Later, the author deals with specific built-ins the reader can make, using the basic woodworking knowledge the reader has thus far acquired from the book and from practice. The concise, crystal-clear instructions give exact procedures and methods to follow. The more than 100 illustrations, integrated with the text, show completed units as well as their component parts in easily understood fashion. Both text and pictures are so written and arranged as to allow the builder plenty of latitude. That is, he can either adopt exactly the innumerable ideas to be found in the book, or else vary and alter them to make fine built-ins especially suited to his own taste and requirements.