One of the most commonly used furniture in any household or any office is the cabinet. Starting from kitchens, to the living rooms you are surrounded with cabinets. Whether you plan to keep your files, or books, or clothes, cabinets are a must addition to your furniture and in little time you would have filled them completely making you need more.
You can choose to get into elaborate cabinet designs, or start with smaller plain cabinets with plain glass doors and paneling inside for the shelves. Or you can also get in to more complicated woodwork and make the apothecary cabinet that usually looks like a matrix of cabinets. It is similar to a wine cabinet typical to wine collectors who like to organize their wines accordingly to age and brand. The Apothecary cabinet is very useful in managing your fly tying, sewing supplies and other smaller articles in regular use.
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Bigger cabinets which are used for keeping books double as magnificent furniture and stand as a single most impressive piece in many living rooms across the world. If you are working on a smaller cabinet to keep handy things like your daily toiletry, a small curio-like cabinet is always a good choice to start with. They make good pieces of furniture in your bathrooms too. Solid cherry is a good choice for such cabinets. Typically such cabinets have four drawers and compartments for tissue and other medicine.
Another easy cabinet is the corner cabinet, typical to large rooms with some spacious corners. It has minimum use of complex joinery. Long splines joining the sides and the front and the rest of the work are simple, and the screws are hidden by the moulding.
Other than these, one can also look for a combination of cabinets such as the craftsmen curio or the computer cabinet that will involve some added shelves and wood work for the number of individual parts that a normal desktop has.
Hundreds of cabinet plans are available online and one can choose to start with any of the easy ones like the curio cabinet.