Building an inside-corner cabinet
 

So far, I have discussed these projects for my parents:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ure-27515.html
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...age-26316.html
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...0-a-26366.html
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...0-a-26041.html

This was for me, but since dad turned the guest bedroom into an office, but I still sleep there when I visit, I want to put in a loft bed, so that I do not need to sleep in a recliner!
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ing-25880.html

So, for two years, I have been working on a fence here. Arizona dirt is extremely difficult to dig, and post holes are much more challenging than an ordinary one. Until I needed to move the shed, just digging the post holes was the most challenging part. I have worked on several other projects up here, as well as continually making their computers work again. Dad originally set up an office in the kitchen, which Mom now uses, and, like every other room in the house, it is pretty cluttered. They have a computer desk, but Dad moved the hutch into his "office," and I thought that a corner cabinet would help wonders:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/attachmen...0&d=1400838568

http://ecomodder.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1400838568

I guess the front edge would be 66".
What do you think?

Why not extend the cabinet all the way back into the corner? You'll use more material, but it will be easier to build and your dad will have more usable space.

To me, it seems that deep shelves are more trouble than they are worth. Of course, I could build it that way just to have more attachment points, but still put in the back where I want it.

Ooh--then you could have a hidden compartment in back.

Honestly, my parents could use that to hide stuff from my autistic brother!

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My folks always used these in any of their remodelling:

inside corner lazy susan - Google Search

Someone claimed that lazy Susans were nearly useless, although I have always thought they were a great idea.

While this is in the kitchen, this is for one of their offices.

'Someone', eh? Did they have your best interests at heart? People say things for weird reasons.

They're most useful with cabinets on either side. Then the space is almost un-useable. otherwise they bring things clear in the back out beyond where it is when closed. It could save getting up out of a chair.

I'd also stack more than two shelves.

It was some DIY site, it was just their personal opinion.

I am kind of inclined to think that inside corners should be avoided. I imagine that having the most normal cabinet possible with a big triangle of dead space behind it would not necessarily be effective, but there must be something that could be done there.

I present the "Inside Corner / Lazy Susan Drawer Box:"
http://walzcraft.com/wp-content/uplo...Drawer-Box.png
which is obviously not a Lazy Susan!

I read about someone making their own inside corner drawer and they realized it was deceptively difficult. Why not give it a flat front?

Actually, I think that I will go with a Lazy Susan, if I can figure out how to integrate it:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1400997542

Half-circular shelves with the pivot at the front. Like Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion closet.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nm1EWRLmt7...A3_Page_18.jpg

Freebeard, that diagram makes me sleepy! :)

I did not start working on the shelves until the night before I left, too many other things were going on, but I had bought the materials.

I decided that, instead of coming up with something with all of the features that I desired, I would go ahead and make something useful now, and come back and spend more time and money later. Perfect is the enemy of good?

I cut the shelves, but need to trim them, cut the 2x2 that I bought for brackets, and install everything. However, I realized that my parents' room was the most cluttered in the house. They have two dressers, one of which is very large, two unusable desks, a couple of full bookcases, and every surface is covered, with a pile in front of everything, and they actually have stuff blocking the walkway. I really think that instead of building more shelves, it would be best to find a good Packrat Anonymous group!

My folks were the same way. I walked through their place once and counted five vacuum cleaners.

Were they dusty? :D

As far as I know, they only have one, while I have two, which I do not use, because the house has one. I just vacuumed a little while ago and strangely, someone had replaced ours with an equally-old one, which worked worse. The one that we had looked just like the first one my mom gave me, except that it worked. The second one was brand-new.

If I can find the vacuum we had, I would put "fix vacuum" on my to-do list. I can still take it apart, but where is the thrill of making pieces of something that works properly, without having any idea if it still will afterward? :)

I cut the wood and then everything changed, although I may install them in my bedroom at home.

Good hardwood is expensive!