This was the inspiration / basic idea for the sewing center design but due to space constraints I made some changes in the design, to reduce the overall width. My version won't have the large storage space on the right, and the five drawers to the left of the foot well in the original will move to the right side in mine. As with the inspiration, there'll be doors to hide the machine and footwell when the thing's not in use; they double as the supports for the parts of the top that are hinged when they're in their "deployed" positions.
The base is beginning to take shape... still a long way to go, though, before I achieve Final Victory.
Among other things, until Mrs. Fun actually chooses and takes possession of her new sewing machine I won't know exactly where to mount the lift, which also means I won't be cutting a hole in the top any time soon nor will I be ordering the surrounding plate, that fills the gap between the desktop and the working surface of the machine it holds. But I can keep working away on the base in the meantime.
Dry assembly is always a good way to test for fit, plus it's a great opportunity to test-drive the clamping sequence / process when there's actual glue involved. So far so good, I think.
I'll install quarter inch plywood "shelves" into each dado, as supports for the yet-to-be-laid-out drawers. But now I know how tall, wide, and deep each drawer can be, at a maximum, as well as the dimensions of the shelves that will support them. The drawers won't have any hardware or mounting rails; basically they'll be open-top plywood boxes with "half moon" indentations at the tops to make it possible to pull them out. A bit of beeswax on the bottoms should make sliding them in and out very easy.
