A simple Plan Chest

I have always yearned for a plan chest. You know the kind of thing, a huge multi drawered behemoth of furniture just for holding paper.  I have never had the space or the funds to justify buying one but am really pleased with a project I undertook last month.


Some years ago I created a structure for hanging all my sons shirts. Nothing fancy, just an open fronted box high enough to hold a shirt on a hanger on a rail and wide enough to hang a curtain in front of the shirts.  The width was determined by the space between two other pieces, which also acted to hold the whole thing stable should my woodworking not be up to scratch!  Its made from the coated fibre board used in kitchens and held together by the plastic blocks also used in kitchens.

To make my paper holders I cut boards from the same stuff as the sides and when I ran out of that I used some MDF that was lying around. To support the shelves I fixed three plastic blocks on each side of the space for each shelf I needed.  By having a block support in the middle I can pull each shelf part way out to check the contents and then slide them back into place - just like drawers but much much easier to construct.




Maybe now that I can find my way through the different papers I will choose what I want to work on instead of using whatever the top sheet is!