Textured Walnut Wall Cabinet | Popular Woodworking

This simple cabinet is elevated by thoughtful details.

When you get right down to it, a wall cabinet is basically a box with a door on it. That doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of opportunity for creativity though. The design for this one here evolved over time in my sketchbook, but as soon as I started actually building it, I changed almost every single thing… Why? Bits of it were practical, but mostly it was due to the fact that as soon as I started cutting things out, the wood inspired me in a different way than I expected. Some of the core ideas remained intact—I was always going to make it out of Walnut, and a cabinet by Lara Mays inspired the idea of texturing the door, though the choice of texture changed. Some details came into play later, like the shape of the decorative cutout, which is cribbed from a Maloof design.

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