Nursery Bookshelf Build
Designed and built this bookshelf for my first baby due in a few weeks… wanted a mountain theme to make it a little more unique.
Birch ply for the carcass, walnut for trim pieces and mountain bases, birds eye maple for the snow peaks.
Used stop dados for shelves into the side verticals, rabbets for the trim pieces to register against the front of the shelves, and biscuits for the bottom of the mountains to join into the top shelf. Tung oil for the finish.
Originally planned for the mountains to ‘climb’ to the higher section on the right, thought it looked nice like this so kept it to three peaks only.
Matching the jagged edges between mountain bases of walnut and birdseye snow peaks was a tough one, lots of slow chisel shaving of thin layers to get all facets to match perfectly before glue up. I kept the peaks flat on top to clamp straight down, then cut the angle to match mountain bottoms perfectly. Very tedious to get this perfect (included one pic mid process).
Ive only ever seen mountain peaks made from end grain or separate pieces, not single face grain pieces like this. Probably for good reason, hopefully they don’t crack or split over time but we’ll see.
Of course, as with all my projects, there are tons of little details I don’t like lol I see every imperfection, but I’m proud of it regardless.
PS also made those floating shelves from oak (tung oil as well). Hoping this doesn’t become a rock wall for the little one trying to climb so may have to change the layout before they hit climbing age.
PPS yes it’s anchored to the wall studs very solidly.