Bedroom Chest of Drawers in the white

Slow and steady progress on the chest of drawers for the past couple months. Today, I've got it pretty close to ready for the milk paint. overall dims are 59,1/2" L 32,1/2" H and 20" D.

This began in sketchup initially. The idea was something very very simple where I could learn about frame/panel casework with a hard-to-do-for-me interior webbing to hold 9 total drawers. it has to hold our non-hanging clothing, and have the smallest possible volume for our bedroom. I chose poplar because it's cheap and works fairly easily, and will be painted using a thin black-on-red painting schedule with a oil topcoat.

I was negligent taking photos of progress up to here. just picture 400 board feet of poplar getting milled and cut to final dims and a few draw-bore m&t joints

here we see the lower rail piece, along with the interior webbing layers mortised into the sides. I created 1" tenons on the webbing pieces to draw-bore the whole assembly together. it works pretty well and requires no supplemental clamping. I wish I had decided to do this for the bottom rail members as well, but it did not occur to me at the time.

notice the little stubble tenons on the top of the 4 posts. these will receive the top of the carcass! indeed, I wanted to avoid having any sort of skirt around the top, and instead use the top as a structural member. it adds a lot of worry to the overall build but I like the reduction of stuff going into this assembly.

here I've put together the vertical webbing materials, which will be attached to the horizontal members via stopped dadoes that were not easy to set up on the tablesaw. Also a first glimpse of the top. I camber my finest Japanese smoother to lightly scallop the top captured panels and add a pleasant texture to the top.