Beds
And Bedroom Furniture
A Variety of
Styles to Grace Your Bedroom
By The
Editors of Fine Woodworking
A
Variety of Styles of Bedroom Furniture
Good bedroom furniture does more than give us a place to sleep or to
provide storage. The best of it has grace and presence, qualities
that seem in harmony with its setting. In these 23 articles from the
pages of Fine Woodworking magazine, you'll see bedroom
furniture in a variety of styles.
Pieces range from a graceful Queen Anne lowboy that serves as a
dressing table to a spectacular sleigh bed. In between there are
bureaus, tables, and a crib. In all, you'll find something here to
grace just about any bedroom, whatever style it might be.
Introduction:
Few pieces of furniture we own are as personal as those in our
bedrooms. Bureaus, beds, and small bedside tables -- no matter what
their style or shape -- all are personal in a way that even the most
beautiful set of kitchen cabinets will never be. Good bedroom
furniture does more than give us a place to sleep or provide storage
for socks. The best of it has grace and presence, qualities that
seem in harmony with its setting.
The authors represented in this collection of Fine Woodworking
articles build furniture in a variety of styles. Pieces range from
Norm Vandal's graceful Queen Anne lowboy that serves as a dressing
table to William Turner's spectacular sleigh bed, a challenging bit
of woodworking that took 1,200 hours to design and build. In between
there are bureaus, cribs, and tables.
In addition to discussions of individual pieces of furniture,
these articles also cover techniques that make building them
possible. Mac Campbell, for instance, can show you how to make
quarter columns to embellish a chest of drawers. John Byers explains
how to coax a curved chest out of flat stock. Christian Becksvoort's
method for installing drawer stops in a bureau or chest helps
guarantee that drawers will sit flush to the case -- permanently.
You'll find something here to grace just about any bedroom,
whatever style it might be.
-- Scott Gibson, editor
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 Construct a Classic Bed
2 Designing a Captain's Bed
3 Making a Sheraton Bed
4 Contemporary Queen Anne
5 Building a Sleigh Bed
6 Bending a Big Curve
7 Crib Hides Its Hardware
8 Making a Frame-and-Panel Bed
9 Drawer-Design Strategies
10 Quarter Columns Dress Up Boxy Cases
11 Building a Chest-on-Chest
12 Curly Cherry Highboy (Part 1)
Curly Cherry Highboy (Part 2)
Curly Cherry Highboy (Part 3)
13 Visible joinery Makes a Chest
14 Blanket Chest Provides Simple, Stylish Storage
15 A Small Bureau Built to Last
16 Drawer Fronts That Fit Flush
17 Curvaceous Carcase Construction
18 A Cherry Clothes Tree
19 Making an End Table
20 A Queen Anne Dressing Table
21 An Inconspicuous Vanity Table
Index
Soft-cover, 9 x 11-7/8 in., 112 pages,
with color photos and drawings
Published 1997
ISBN: 978-1-56158-191-7 |
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