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Portfolio > For your living and entertainment spaces > Very large AV bench under construction in the studio.

This very wide AV bench (shown here in the studio before transport to the customer's home) was designed to fit into an existing niche.  To make it easy to move, it was designed in three pieces that fit together with floating tenons.  The top was done in two pieces and also fit with floating tenons.  In the customer's home the three bottom pieces were assembled together, secured with hidden pocket-hole screws, and then slid into the niche. The top was then assembled and also slid into place.  Since the top is solid hardwood (Brazilian cherry in this case), it was held to the base via UHMW T-shaped wedges which hold the top down securely but allow it to expand and contract differentially from the base units.  Once in place it looks like it was built in but can easily be moved if the owners ever elect to sell the house and want to keep this piece.