Home Storage Projects: Creative Solutions for Every Room of the House [Paperback]

Paul Anthony (Author)

Book Description

Series: Projects Book | Publication Date: March 12, 2002

This practical and inspiring book features 18 projects designed to maximize storage in every corner of every cluttered home. A wide array of practical, attractive and well-designed projects will appeal to woodworkers at every skill level. Each project includes detailed building instructions, complete plans and a list of materials.

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Most people accumulate a huge amount of "stuff," and storing it can be a real challenge especially if one is also concerned about a home's aesthetics. Anthony offers 13 projects that will enable skilled woodworkers to store almost anything. Projects include CD and cassette storage, a desktop organizer, a kitchen workstation, and a medicine cabinet with a locking compartment. Unlike many storage options, these very attractive designs frequently feature solid wood and a high level of craftsmanship. Although many of the projects are complex, the instructions are well done, with excellent illustrations and a complete cut-list for each project. Sure to be a popular title; most libraries should consider.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Taunton Press (March 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561584983
• ISBN-13: 978-1561584987
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,216,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine furniture...not shelving!, April 3, 2002

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Barb Siddiqui (Wenatchee, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Storage Projects: Creative Solutions for Every Room of the House (Paperback)

Paul Anthony's new 'Home Storage Projects' from Taunton Press is not a run-of-the-mill 'store-it' campaign. He teaches fine woodworking along the way, with items as simple as a CD cabinet or pantry door storage. For those who want more complicated pieces, he offers a bench with curved, sleigh-bed end handles and a built-in of under-bed storage with a pedestal and drawers that roll out on both sides. He shows how to construct a printer stand that looks elegant enough to be a display case in a living room.

A long kitchen work station, a file cabinet, and a desktop organizer designed for real storage of work at hand, are some of the projects included. A mobile closet for guests, a man's jewelry box, and a medicine cabinet with a locking partition for drugs, are all presented with design options for fitting to required spaces or use.

The author offers up shop jigs for mitered clamping cauls, spline miter mortises and tapering. Hints show how to set router depth for leaf hinges in an instant, how to spring a batten for a fair curve, and how to install a full mortise lock. Producing these projects off the fully illustrated instructions would be a basic course in woodworking, with guidance in resawing, joinery and simple finishes.

The nice thing about this book is that the author never forgets to inform the reader why he is doing something, so it all makes sense as you go along. Illustrations and photos are clear and move the work along step by step. Selecting a space in the home, then designing a project to fill that space, is one of the best ways to learn design and construction techniques, and that is where this book succeeds so well. From small projects to large, there are useful pieces here for nearly everyone. <P...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy 2 and keep 1 in the shop, April 25, 2002

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Ron Snayberger (Jupiter Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Storage Projects: Creative Solutions for Every Room of the House (Paperback)

The best part of this book is the first twenty two pages. Paul explains customizing and planning a design to fit your need and then goes into working with different materials. He even explains and has a drawing to show the proper way to install a screw. His information on joinery is easy to understand with the shop drawings to help explain them. Most people think you need a large selection of tools to build a project, not so as is demonstrated with the list Paul gives you. Layout and stock preperation along with the triangular marking system is information every woodworker should know to make a project easier to build, and finally someone gives us a simple finish to put on a project instead of worrying about using expensive spray equipment. Throughout the book there are many tips that can be applied to any project. The photos are great, the book is well written with some fantastic projects anyone would be proud to show off in their home. Thanks Paul for a great addition to my library and my shop.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of; " Home Storage Projects" by Paul Anthony, April 13, 2002

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Art Silva (New Tripoli, Pa.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Storage Projects: Creative Solutions for Every Room of the House (Paperback)

Taunton Press realizes that a how-to book must not only deliver in content, but must be able to stand the abuse that taking it to the shop can cause. They use a slick cover and page material that looks like it could be damp-mopped many times without wilting. The content will also pass the test of time without wilting also. Anthony has brought six great woodworkers, including himself, to take on thirteen different storage projects.

There is probably not a project in this book that anyone would have a problem with. The attention to detail is amazing; from the complete and accurate cut-lists, to the step by step written procedure for each operation with outstanding photographs to illustrate what tool or machine to use. We have all been advised to do "dry clamp-ups" to make sure of glueing sequence and optimum clamp placement. This is covered in detail on almost every project.

For those of you who are Turners, you get your chance on the legs of the Storage Bench, and Allen Spooner shows how to book-match veneer for the Man's Jewelry Box.

I have found Anthony's book to be more than worthwhile addition to my library, and I am sure you will also. Where else can you get working drawings, great instructions and photographs for thirteen projects for this price?