I made a new wardrobe for my favourite daughter Anna. It is all made from 90x45 mm structural timber and a few 19x140 mm Merbau boards (basically the stuff we can get from Bunnings). We used linseed oil for the finish.
The finished wardrobe
It all starts with a drawing; I used LibreCAD to make it. I've never used it before, so I spent about five hours to learn how to use it. Not too bad, so it's definitely a nice program.
I used the Merbau to give the side-walls some kind of structure.
I ended up with a large number of wooden boards
Glueing them together made the 500 mm side-walls
The infill for the doors shall be made from 18 mm three-layer
slabs - not available in SA, so I made some myself
slabs - not available in SA, so I made some myself
The front panel (frame only) for the drawers
And with its infill
Four cabinets make the wardrobe; they are connected with wooden frames. The bottom one
can be height-adjusted
can be height-adjusted
The cabinets for the drawers sit on top of the first frame
followed by the next frame
The larger cabinets and the top frame
I hand-cut the dove tails for the drawers
I did use some Merbau for the handles too
Merbau is quite hard, so it takes time to process it
The dark handles give the front some more structure
Plenty of room (at least what I thought)
