“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.
Exterior sideboard built to hide mechanicals
Designed to conceal the dryer vent inside the right side.
Doors are slatted with bronze screening for venting.
The interior had to be designed and fabricated to marine-grade specs or better.
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.
Cabinets were designed fabricated and installed to tolerances allowing only 1/16” of an inch clearance for the altered registers on the top shelves.
The doors on the two cabinets on the left were vented, allowing more than double the original air passage of the return register.
Sometimes you want to show stuff off. Below, some cabinets to display stuff in:
A display cabinet designed and built for the the author of the screenplay for the movie Lincoln.
The producer, one Steve Spielberg, had given him an ivory statue of Abe, which itself was a sort of display cabinet.
Sometimes you want some minimal sleek lines keeping your stuff away from possums and pirates
Sometimes you want more traditional detailing…