Our Aumbry Cupboard
For Raglan 2011 we decided that we really needed something to organise the kitchen, especially after seeing the lovely example at Tretower court. Of course our example would have to be made to flat pack into a car.
The cupboard shown in the picture to the left[1] is in the V&A Museum and dates from about 1490 and is known as Prince Arthur's Cupboard. It was originally painted with vermilion. It dates to 1490-1502 and can be found here http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O60630/food-cupboard/
Our material was plywood for the panels and planks for the panel edges and its all joined together with hinges. The front is the last piece to go on and attaches using sliding hinges like the ones on toilet doors that are designed to be removable.
We don't really have plans that you can use to make this as the ones we started with went out the window during the build. The basic shape, however, is the same. The sides join onto the top piece and lock into place with the bottom shelf. The back can then be fixed into place, before putting in the middle shelf and finally the front slots into place.
One tip though is that we found it tricky screwing the hinges to the structural components, the top, the side etc which where made of half inch ply, so in places we had to add an extra piece of ply as a doubler for the screws to go through. Another thing we found was that to get the strength in the legs we added stiffeners to stop them bending and then false panels on the front of the sides to make it look like there are proper legs.
Please feel free to email questions regarding this to jpgsawyer at gmail dot com and I will see what I can do.
Whilst I designed the original concept shown on the left all credit for the magnificence of the final object has to go to Paul Blackwell, he's the good looking chap on the right, who made it look fantastic.
References:
[1] A.C.Wright ,Medieval Furniture, Museum Service, Southend-on-Sea 1976
The cupboard shown in the picture to the left[1] is in the V&A Museum and dates from about 1490 and is known as Prince Arthur's Cupboard. It was originally painted with vermilion. It dates to 1490-1502 and can be found here http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O60630/food-cupboard/
Our material was plywood for the panels and planks for the panel edges and its all joined together with hinges. The front is the last piece to go on and attaches using sliding hinges like the ones on toilet doors that are designed to be removable.
We don't really have plans that you can use to make this as the ones we started with went out the window during the build. The basic shape, however, is the same. The sides join onto the top piece and lock into place with the bottom shelf. The back can then be fixed into place, before putting in the middle shelf and finally the front slots into place.
One tip though is that we found it tricky screwing the hinges to the structural components, the top, the side etc which where made of half inch ply, so in places we had to add an extra piece of ply as a doubler for the screws to go through. Another thing we found was that to get the strength in the legs we added stiffeners to stop them bending and then false panels on the front of the sides to make it look like there are proper legs.
Please feel free to email questions regarding this to jpgsawyer at gmail dot com and I will see what I can do.
Whilst I designed the original concept shown on the left all credit for the magnificence of the final object has to go to Paul Blackwell, he's the good looking chap on the right, who made it look fantastic.
References:
[1] A.C.Wright ,Medieval Furniture, Museum Service, Southend-on-Sea 1976