Sewing Supplies Cabinet with Inlaid Metal Tile Accents

 This series of posts documents the design and construction of a storage cabinet I built to hold my wife's sewing machine and related accessories a...

I had originally planned to build the entire cabinet from solid maple, but high lumber prices (soft maple is $7.50 per board foot at my favorite su...

 The case is a basic face frame cabinet. [Sewing Cabinet Plywood Case Dimensions.jpg] I used pocket screws to build the face frame and dowels to a...

The doors are 3/4" maple plywood slabs with 1/2" wide solid maple trim and inlaid tiles and accent strips. They were by far the most difficult part...

 My wife wanted a light/whitish finish for the cabinet. Maple is pretty light toned, so my first thought was to use a clear water-based poly finish...

Few parts of this project went smoothly, and the final door assembly was no exception. It started well enough. Attaching the outer trim wasn't too...