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Ann has a family heirloom cedar chest that she's used as a coffee table in her den for many years. Her search for end tables that would compliment it's design elements proved fruitless, so she contacted me. Below are the results of our collaboration.
Here's the original chest. The important design elements I tried to incorporate were the overall shape and dimension, the shape of the feet and handles, and the style of construction.
For the tops I wanted to do something special so I picked up a couple of cherry slabs taken from a root ball. Lots of neat figure, grain, and color variation! Here are the raw slabs and the shop made jig I used to flatten and thickness them.
Shop-made jig for flattening and surfacing the slabs.
Here's the finished product. As you'll see the tops are solid cherry, the feet are similarly shaped to the originals, and the drawer handles were carved to match the side handles of the chest.
In addition to the overall design she had an interesting request.. she wanted to conceal a laptop without the storage area being obvious. So I created a tray compartment and added an electrical outlet to both end tables that link together with a single power cord to plug into the wall.
You'll also notice that the drawers are mounted using premium under-mount drawer slides. Ball-bearing and soft-close for flawless operation.
And the results speak for themselves.
The tops are pretty nifty with the grain and color variation, and the tables are solid.
This was a great project and another happy client!
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