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Built-Ins

Built-Ins offers authoritative advice on how to design, plan, and build custom built-ins that suit the style of any environment. For anyone with basic woodworking skills up to the most skilled master craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective on built-ins - from strategic planning, to dealing with idiosyncratic spaces, to practical advice on a wide range of projects.

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Author: Robert Settich
Format: Softcover
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 192

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Let an expert show you how to:

Design for functionality and style.
Select materials and finishes.
Construct durable cabinets.
Build doors and drawers.
Install specialty hardware.
Build around electronics.
Maximize storage space.

From bookcases that flank a fireplace to a cabinet designed to display family heirlooms, built-ins not only reduce clutter, they can add permanent value to a home. Stressing the vital importance of both form and function, Robert Settich's complete guide offers authoritative advice on how to design, plan, and build custom built-ins that suit the style of any environment. His practical approach simplifies even the trickiest jobs, so each project is within the reach of anyone with even the most basic woodworking skills. But Settich does not ignore the construction challenges that might arise, clearly dealing with everything from uneven floors to walls that are out of plumb. The long-time how-to author even demonstrates how to turn stock cabinetry into a built-in that looks custom made.

For anyone with basic woodworking skills up to the most skilled master craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective on built-ins - from strategic planning, to dealing with idiosyncratic spaces, to practical advice on a wide range of projects.

As the latest addition to our successful Build Like A Pro series, Built-Ins gives you 192 pages of insights and guidance from longtime how-to author Bob Settich.

You'll discover all the tools, tips and techniques you need to tackle everything from shelves and drawers to closets and entertainment centers. And you'll pick up all the trade secrets you need to add permanent value to your home, by creating attractive storage space and eliminating clutter.

Here are a few examples of what you'll find:

How to plan built-ins to achieve their function and fit the space where they're being installed.
Strategies for meeting the challenges of this type of building, such as walls out of plumb, uneven floors and the random vagaries you'll encounter, especially in older houses.
Smart ways to use stock cabinetry to create a custom-built look without starting from scratch.

By taking a practical step-by-step approach to every project and procedure, this useful reference volume delivers everything you need to design, plan and construct built-ins to enhance any home.

From the Introduction
This book is your passport to the world of built-ins. It's a journey that can significantly add to your home's function, appeal, and value.

You'll enjoy "sightseeing tours" of completed projects, discovering concepts and details that will get your creative juices flowing. You'll also explore proven planning standards that will help you transform your ideas into a workable design.

Then you'll discover advice on choosing materials as well as step-by-step photo sequences on building, fastening, and finishing every component in your built-in. Even the margins of this book work hard, delivering Pro Tips, Trade Secrets, and warnings about What Can Go Wrong.

But if you're short on tools or time, you'll see how you can benefit from the wide range of ready-made cabinets and other "off the shelf" components to give you professional-looking built-ins throughout your home. Even with a very humble tool kit and modest skills, you can confidently take on large projects.

And if the design process mystifies you, take advantage of the low-cost service offered by several manufacturers. You can get a closet design, for example, at a surprisingly small fee. And many home centers offer no-cost design consultation in the cabinetry department. Although kitchen and bath cabinets dominate the displays at these stores, many of the manufacturers featured there have broadened their output to include components for home offices and entertainment centers.

You'll also find that built-ins are often far easier and less expensive to make than a piece of furniture with a similar function. That's because a built-in usually doesn't have its sides, back, and top visible. So you can employ a utilitarian joinery and secondary woods instead of fussy joints and high-dollar lumber.

In addition, a built-in can deliver plenty of cubic feet of storage, often without sacrificing square feet of living area. That's because you can make use of space that's currently wasted in areas with low vertical clearance, behind knee walls, and even in stud bays. As a result, you can minimize clutter and make your home live bigger than it is.

Whether your destination is a large or small built-in, this book will show you how to get there, making your project look right at home.

About the Author
Robert J. Settich is a freelance writer and woodworker who has been published in Better Homes and Gardens, Workbench, ShopNotes, Wood, Home Depot Kitchen and Bath, and Woodshop News. He has also been senior writer/editor of Meredith's Weekend Woodworking. Settich is the author of Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Choosing and Installing Hardware. He lives in Missouri.

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