Mastering Built-In Furniture [Video]

Sponsored by Festool

There are levels of achievement in woodworking. Building your first table, your first chair, and building cabinets for a room in your house. For that last one, there’s an added step to complicate the process: mating the cabinetry to the architecture of the house. Built-in furniture requires a little more knowledge and planning, but by following some simple guidelines and advice from our professional woodworker, Gregory Paolini, built-in’s are easily achieved. Follow along as Greg takes us through the planning, construction and installation of a set of built-in cabinetry, and even take a look at adding doors and drawers to your built-in project. We wrap up the series with a design ideas visit through a house recently completed by Greg’s company to give you some ideas to keep your creativity flowing. Our special thanks to Festool for sponsoring this series.

In this first episode of our seven-part series on Mastering Built-In Furniture, our host – professional furniture maker and author, Gregory Paolini – walks you through the steps necessary before the building begins. Understanding and preparing the space for the new addition.

In this second episode, Gregory Paolini shows us how to put our cabinets in place. Fitting built-in cabinets requires some extra skills and we’re happy to share the secrets.

In this third episode of our seven-part series on Mastering Built-In Furniture, our host – professional furniture maker and author, Gregory Paolini – heads back to the shop to look at the unique requirements for building built-in cabinetry.

In this fourth episode, Gregory Paolini spends some time in the shop building doors for built-in cabinetry and takes a look at the type of hardware to hang those doors.

In this fifth episode of our seven-part series on Mastering Built-In Furniture, our host – professional furniture maker and author, Gregory Paolini – takes a look at what needs to be considered for building and installing drawers in our built-in cabinets.

In this sixth episode, Greg looks at some of the specialty items that can be used with built-in cabinetry including options for easily adjustable bases, lighting and how to make the end of a cabinet more than just a blank face.

In this final episode of our seven-part series on Mastering Built-In Furniture, we take a walk with host Gregory Paolini through a finished home to take a look at a variety of special features that can be added to built-in furniture for that custom feel. Our special thanks to Festool for sponsoring this series. https://www.festoolusa.com