Spending so much time in the home office this year made it impossible to ignore this:



So I made some Cadovius-style shelves to start organizing the mess:



I ordered some glass for the bigger cabinet, but it won't show up for a couple weeks.  Now that I'm pretty much done, I think I've figured out how I'd build this if I did it all over again.

Thanks for looking!

Looks very nice to me.  What did you do this time that you won't do next time, or vice versa...?

Very nice. 👍

Thanks!

Looks very nice to me.  What did you do this time that you won't do next time, or vice versa...?

Thanks   Mainly more efficient methods of work, but I would have proportioned some stuff differently too.  I pretty much made them up as I went along.  It'll be practical, though.

Are they adjustable? Having a hard time understanding how the components utilize the rails for support.

Yeah, they're adjustable, although TBH I probably won't change them after I settle on a layout.  However, I started with four uprights and added a fifth, so I guess I benefited from the modular system that one time.

The uprights are the same concept as the metal shelf standards at a big box store, but much more expensive and time consuming   .  Seriously, though--I like midmod stuff, and I've always admired the Cadovius systems, and something like this would have been expensive to buy.  Fortunately, I don't bill myself for shop time!

This doesn't really explain how it works, but it shows the individual components (taking over my garage):

That looks great!

That looks great!

Thank you!

The walnut on your boxes looks stellar, is that veneer, or a solid layup?

Really nice stuff!

Thanks!  It's A1 plywood with solid edge banding.  That's one of the things I probably would have done different--although the veneers are nice, it bugs me that the A side and 1 side don't match.  I chose not to veneer myself to save time, but now i kinda wished I made my own panels.  Oh well, next time

Spending so much time in the home office this year made it impossible to ignore this:

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So I made some Cadovius-style shelves to start organizing the mess:

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I ordered some glass for the bigger cabinet, but it won't show up for a couple weeks.  Now that I'm pretty much done, I think I've figured out how I'd build this if I did it all over again.

Thanks for looking!

I see 2 hungry dobermans 🐶. If the systainers are in the same room they are safe! Turned out nice!

Someone asked me how I made the removeable cabinet doors, and I can't figure out how to add attachments to a DM, so I'll leave this here:



I inlaid a strip of hardwood on the top and bottom so the dados don't expose raw plywood.  Probably not necessary, but I guess my time is cheap.  In any case, I suggest making a test piece out of scrap.  Since you have to tilt the door to remove it, doing it purely by math is hard (and boring ).

The glass doors are similar, but since I didn't have complete control over the doors, I made the track after I had the doors in hand.  It's a separate piece that screws onto the cabinet.  This turned out to be a good idea, since the glass supplier made multiple mistakes between the doors and shelves (I had to go back-and-forth four times).  They did grind some nice finger nicks into the glass, which I prefer to the other hardware options.

Thanks for the detailed reply to my question!  This will help a lot in laying out my final design.

Nice

I think they ware awesome. I like the elegant simplicity. It also works well in a corner like that.

I think they ware awesome. I like the elegant simplicity. It also works well in a corner like that.

Thank you!

@cider  What is remarkable (apart from the quality and design of these bookshelves) is that those five books by Edward Tufte are on my shelves too. They are must haves for anyone who is interested in information graphics (although I do think that Prof. Tufte is not a very nice person, his work is superb — his graphic design sense not so much IMO. After reading them you will never look again at a graphic without asking yourself what could be wrong with it — and knowing the answer too!

Hey cool--I don't run into a lot of people who are familiar.  Never met the guy, so I don't know much about him, but I appreciate his work.  I kinda feel the same way about Donald Norman: the guy has great ideas on UX, but IMO DOET is an example of bad design.

I like the bookcase a lot. Much rather have that than the books. Gave my Tufte books to my nephew who does that work professionally. Don't know if he really likes them...

I can tell you that Tufte is THE authority on data-to-graphics and if you think about how much people are manipulated by terribly wrong images you would appreciate too. Case in point: the Challenger launch disaster.