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 STASH: Shelves, Cabinets

“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.” 
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

All this stuff. So we make boxes to keep them in, as George Carlin noted. Sometimes you want the stuff to go away; sometimes you want to hide it. Below, some solutions to things we don’t want to look at, and a few things we do.

Hide

Curve Sideboard
Curve Sideboard

Exterior sideboard built to hide mechanicals

Curve Sideboard
Curve Sideboard

Designed to conceal the dryer vent inside the right side.

Curve Sideboard
Curve Sideboard

Doors are slatted with bronze screening for venting.

Curve Sideboard
Curve Sideboard

The interior had to be designed and fabricated to marine-grade specs or better.

Vented Display / Storage Shelves
Vented Display / Storage Shelves

Here the conditions included a back wall with mechanicals packed so tightly on the other side that nothing could be moved. Not the air return or the HVAC feed registers.

Vented Display / Storage Shelves
Vented Display / Storage Shelves

Cabinets were designed fabricated and installed to tolerances allowing only 1/16” of an inch clearance for the altered registers on the top shelves.

Vented Display / Storage Shelves
Vented Display / Storage Shelves

The doors on the two cabinets on the left were vented, allowing more than double the original air passage of the return register.

Vented Display / Storage Shelves
Vented Display / Storage Shelves
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Sometimes you want to show stuff off. Below, some cabinets to display stuff in:

Display

Lincoln Vitrine
Lincoln Vitrine

A display cabinet designed and built for the the author of the screenplay for the movie Lincoln.

Lincoln Vitrine
Lincoln Vitrine

The producer, one Steve Spielberg, had given him an ivory statue of Abe, which itself was a sort of display cabinet.

Lincoln Vitrine
Lincoln Vitrine
Lincoln Vitrine
Lincoln Vitrine
Invisible Man Vitrine
Invisible Man Vitrine
Museum Display Vitrines
Museum Display Vitrines
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Contemporary

Sometimes you want some minimal sleek lines keeping your stuff away from possums and pirates

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Sometimes you want more traditional detailing…

Traditional

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