The Ironing Board

This is the built-in ironing board I made for my lovely wife Judy. She had seen the commercially available built-in ironing boards and liked the convenience they provided; however, the boards themselves were very undersized and not suitable for dresses and other large items.

The ironing board is a tracing of the full size ironing board that Judy regularly uses and therefore uses standard ironing board covers etc. The case work is made out of Poplar and the flat panels in the door are Oak plywood. The ironing board itself is Baltic Birch Plywood. Note the matching grain pattern of the six door panels. .

The rails and styles were grooved to accept the plywood panels. Where the rails and styles intersect they are neither coped or mortised and tenoned. Rather a spline or “loose tenon” was installed.

The casework fits between the wall studs and is secured in place from the inside with four screws. The trim molding is attached only to the casework which allows the entire unit to be easily removed as plan to take this with us when we retire to North Carolina.

Judy has not yet decided on a color scheme for the room so the ironing board remains without an applied finish

 

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