Maquera Chest of Drawers

This cream chest of drawers was a really fun build.  There were some fun details as well as a nice engineering challenge.  My favorite detail is the steel outline around the bottom section of drawers.  Next was the molding that surrounds the cabinet.  It gives it a nice transitional feel.  

The engineering challenge was that stone vase on top of it.  It weighed somewhere around 150 lbs.  We always build everything so that it outlives us...so we constructed a steel webbing inside of the piece that would support the span across the top and transfer the load from the center down to the legs.  This will prevent the cabinet from bowing over time.  

This custom chest of drawers was handmade in San Diego, California.