The brief
A hall that is seven feet of awkward.
The clients had a long, shallow hallway with a radiator at one end and a staircase at the other. They wanted storage that would not make the passage feel narrower, and drawers that did not stick in damp weather.
We kept the depth to 480 mm, raised it on tapered legs so the floor shows underneath, and hung the drawers on wooden runners rather than metal ones.
The joint
Every drawer, the same corner.
Each drawer front is cut from the same board as the carcass above it, so the grain runs on across the gaps like a single sheet. The corners are half-blind at the front and through at the back, at 1:6.
Drag the corner on this page and you can see why they hold: the tails flare toward the end, so the harder a drawer is pulled, the tighter it locks.
“We opened the first drawer and it exhaled. I had not known a drawer could do that.”
The client, Piccotts End