Bit of curved work

[jasonB]

As you can see I've been going round in circles this week

Been making these carcases and some standard square ones as well for a "?" shaped kitchen this week. The doors will be thermo formed Parapan in the bright blue shade.

The hardboard on the floor is the template taken from the room, the cross is the centre from which all the curves are swung and the sides and dividers radiate from.

There is a straight section that comes off from the left of the curve that will hasve base units for slim dishwasher, compact oven & induction hob, ice maker. Then a tall unit for fridge and bean to cup coffee machine.

BTW this is just the breakfast room

Jason

 

[Karl]

Now that looks like a right bugger to make !!!!

Hope you are to be handsomely rewarded by the client....

Cheers

Karl

 

[Waka]

Jason

Looks really good, if thats just the breakfast room whats the kitchen like?

 

[Philly]

Wow! Look forward to seeing this,
Philly

 

[jasonB]

if thats just the breakfast room whats the kitchen like?

Blinking big

I'm only likely to be doing the carcases on this one(too much other work), it's through the Kitchen designer that I do some work for, she picked the job up as she was doing the kitchen in the new build house next door. They knocked down an older house that cost over £1.0m to build the new one and the kitchen is costing them over £100k :?

The house that this one is going into is even larger and built to a very high spec. Just to set the scene, if you were to stand with your back to the breakfast room sink (to right of internal draw unit) you would be looking through a 10ft high by 15ft wide glass wall with a frameless glass door that gives access to the indoor swimming pool with whirlpool beyond. This has a lot of blue glass mosaic so thats why the doors wiil be blue with a white (at present) Corian top. Above the center of the circular part of the room is a large round glass skylight and the floor is all white marble.

J

 

[Waka]

Must be nice to have a never ending budget, sounds like one of those places on Grand Designs.

 

[wizer]

appropriate design really because it'd have me guessing! :?:

Riddle me this: Are the doors made to fit or standard sizes?

 

[jasonB]

The doors are made to measure. Parapan have about a dozen standard radius moulds that they can bend the material over, luckily we can use a 900mm radius one for these doors with an average worktop width of 650mm. You can specify the length of the curve, in this case it worked out at 420mm on the face, they sent a sample for approval before commiting to making the doors.

If what you need does not suit they will make up a new former and charge you for it, they will then add this to their range of available profiles.

It can be worked in much the same way as solid surface materials and then polished up with something along the lines of Micro-mesh. They also do end panels and a 4mm thick version if you need it.

Jason

 

[Chris Knight]

Jason,
It's going to look fabulous!

What's the joinery in the cabinets? I can see pocket hole screws in the end unit but presume it's biscuits or some such in the central ones.

 

[gwaithcoed]

Jason,
That is brilliant. I wouldn't know where to start on a project like that.

Alan.

 

[jasonB]

Carcases are done with biscuits and carcase screws, the bit at the end is just to support an end panel and has a few pocket screws as well as the biscuits & carcase screws.

Jason

 

[tim]

Execllent looking stuff. I imagine there will be a twitchy moment when the doors arrive wondering if they will actually fit :wink:

Please post finished pics

Cheers

Tim

 

[The Bear]

Looks fantastic

Is this going to be in a house in Oxshott by any chance?

 

[OPJ]

Very impressive! :shock: I was about to ask where you got the shape from but, then I notice the sheet of hardboard on the floor. :roll:

I presume the top is made of several small segments, biscuit-jointed together? I can see you struggling to get that out of one 10' sheet, unless my eyes are lying to me.

 

[jasonB]

Property is in the Kingston/Richmond area

The curved section is made up as three base units, you can see the double uprights, each 59degrees of the circle (I suspect the architect drew it at 180 deg for the curve but you know what bricklayers & plasterers are like :wink: ) I still only got a top, bottom and one shelf from an 8x4 plus lots of waste. Made a template from 9mm MDF, drew round it onto the MFC a bit oversize then cut the boards before using a multi-trim bit in the router to get it to final size.

Jason

 

[David111s]

kingston hill?

when i worked for a joinery in kston we did loads of work up there and oxshott.

by the way anyone from surrey no of any small workshops that might let out some benchspace?

Dave

 

[jasonB]

kingston hill?

Within half a mile.

J