{"id":3651,"date":"2025-11-19T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:48:13","slug":"local-carpenter-builds-a-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/local-carpenter-builds-a-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Local carpenter builds a case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since we moved into our apartment we wanted to close a wall between the dining \/ working area and the sitting \/ lounging area with a cupboard \/ case specifically made for the occasion. There was already a built-in cupboard with a skewed wall halfway protruding into the space. Other owners in our building had removed it to create one large space, but that was too much for us. We prefer two smaller spaces and leaving room for storage. Since it would be behind the couch we did not want to close the space with a solid wall that causes reflections behind you when listening to music. Also, we like the sun shining through the apartment when rising and setting. So an open design would be best for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeroen (Hout & Design)<\/a> visited us one evening to talk about the case. We asked him how he would build it considering openness in the design, playfulness with skew walls (of which we have many), including three existing cabinets and keeping cost down by choosing solutions costing less material and less labour. (I got quoted \u20ac 10.000 site unseen by another carpenter based on a design I did myself.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeroen drew an original design on the spot on his tablet we liked a lot. The materials are simple: pine wood and mdf. The final case presented here does not differ much from his initial drawing. After fitting the order into his planning the waiting began…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Front\u2019 of the case as seen from the sitting area. An original Swedish adjustable lamp (we bought in actual Sweden) is clamped to a shelf and shines on flowers we put there or on art that hangs on the wall further away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The lowest part contains mainly books that overflow from the main bookcase. The dark green colour is the same as a small hifi cupboard Jeroen made for us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As seen from the dining \/ workin space. The backs of the existing cupboards are covered with pin-up board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An appropriate little artwork my wife Nicolien received upon graduating recently. The light green is leftover paint from a previous project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Favourite (photo)books and a beautiful rock from Sweden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The cubes are made from mdf, the shelves are pinewood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The cubes are filled with varying objects and \/ or books.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A comfy spare chair sits between the new case and the existing bookcase (left, out of frame).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The waiting was worth it. This case, and the small hifi case Jeroen built us, exudes craftsmanship and creativity, and it just fits so well in our apartment. We love living with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographs of an original case (cabinet \/ cupboard) a local carpenter built to separate our dining and sitting area. Everything is skewed, just like the walls of our apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}