Thanks for purchasing a CSSU… as described, each unit is hand-made and custom designed. We’re not IKEA yet, but do hope to make assembly as simple as possible. Reading the below and reviewing applicable pictures will certainly help.
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Melissa contacted us looking for a specific size — roughly 6 feet X 6 feet (one of our largest yet!)… and fairly narrow at 11.5in deep. A few volleys back and forth and these are ready to pack up and ship off.
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Rachel needed album storage and she liked Monika's blue/white color palette… a few emails later, she has a new piece of furniture.
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You know you might be a bit of a wood-nerd when you begin buying wood not because you need it, but because it’s beautiful and you /have/ to have it. This was the case with the natural-birch panel I used to make this spec LP-1 album storage unit.
You typically wouldn’t think that birch and maple would go well together — like whipped cream on vanilla ice cream… too much “light” — but with the red interior color and black backing, this unit really pops. Of course, the gorgeous variegation of the birch helps a lot.
It was made as a spec piece and will be at Bay Home in a few days. If you’d like to check it out there in person, per them a visit. However, if you’d like to get the jump on it (and perhaps get a better price), hit me up before Friday afternoon (tomorrow — 4/3).
I have a bit of the birch paneling left, too, so if you have a design in mind, let me know…
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Kristen and Doug needed vinyl storage… She contacted me to build a 3-bay wide LP-2 (bench) and chose walnut/white panels.
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Julie saw our LP-1 and LP-2, but she and her husband, Eric, seem to have more than 46in of vinyl and needed something larger… We reduced the depth of the standard CSSU and made a few other tweaks and here we have it… a LP-3, I s'pose.
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Sometimes after a few orders, I have some spare parts and pieces left over. With them, I've started making a few spec pieces that will be selling at Bay Home.
The founder of Bay Home has a long history in the MCM furniture business. In fact, we first met him over 10 years ago when we looked at a Roger Lee house in Kensington that he had staged.
This piece is 32 (w) X 32 (h) X 16 (d) and is backed with a matte black panel from our "neutral" line. The sides are walnut/walnut. I also tried a new technique of having panels in adjoining bays on the inside (as opposed to outside mounting). It works pretty well, but — because of the super-tight tolerances — it is only for shop-assembled furniture rather than anything that will be disassembled and shipped.
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Tyler wanted something very custom for his audio gear… to fit things just right (height of bays, width, depth, etc.). We designed this to fit his receiver and amp with room for a turntable on top… Now to disassemble this and get it to him!
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Morgan contacted us looking for a custom storage unit. We designed something that would help with storage in a tight Bay-Area living space.
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