George Burns said,“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” It’s hard to argue with that sentiment. But here we’re dealing with another kind of family — a family of Craftsman-style furniture. The member of that family shown in the photos here is a chest that resides in the bedroom, often, like you see here at the foot of the bed. But there’s no law that says you can’t use this good-looking furniture elsewhere in your home.
This chest is the latest addition to our line of Craftsman furniture. In issue 219 there’s a Gentleman’s Dresser, followed up with a bed frame in 235. Then in issue 252 there’s a nightstand that’s cute as bug’s ear. If you leaf through the pages of 258 you’ll find a double-treat in a dresser and mirror. So the woodworking DNA that runs through the chest has a strong heritage that it draws upon. For example, frame and panel joinery makes for not only strong case construction, the results of the technique also adorns each side of the chest with a pleasant shadowline. As with the chest’s older kin, the project is punctuated with tenon plugs in the sides and top. The top, as you see in the photo to the left, is held
