1/12th Kitchen furniture plans.

This page features the six sheets of plans for kitchen furniture. The dresser, made up, features on a page of its own. The settle, assembled and stained dark brown, is seen at the back of the kitchen room box. The table, made up, can be seen on its own page, Kitchen Table. The comb-back Windsor chair, made up, can be seen lower down this page.


Called 'Welsh' but not confined to Wales, this is a handsome piece of furniture, typical of a dining room of the early 18th Century. It requires some model-making skill to complete if the drawers are to slide open and shut. It can be made with false drawer fronts.	A more solid piece of furniture, perhaps from a farm kitchen, with cupboards below the drawers, typically 19th Century. Easier, perhaps, to make but still requiring skill if the drawers are to slide and the cupboard doors to open and shut.	Settles were often local-made seats designed to face the fireplace and shelter the sitters from the draughts rushing up the open chimneys. The box settle was often used as a bed for a servant or child, with the bedding stowed in the box during the day. The box was also used as a cot.

Windsor chairs come in a bewildering mix of styles and variations. The major structural feature is that the seat was carved from one solid piece of hardwood and all the other parts were jointed into it. We had thought that more sheets would be necessary, but Barré managed to get the major design features onto two sheets instead of four.	The comb-back Windsor chair is probably the one most people will recognise. Once bodgers working in the forest turned the legs, stretchers, etc, on site using primitive pole lathes. The rods are inserted into the top cross bar like teeth into a bone 'comb'. 'Scroll' refers to the curve of the backstand on the chair to the left.	This design of table has been made and used in kitchens throughout the world for centuries. It has recently been found that natural wood is more hygienic than plastic for food preparation. The top would have been made of deal boards, scrubbed clean. The 5" large table has a drawer for cutlery, and the smaller version is 4" long and 1.5" wide.

Windsor chair made up.

This chair made up is 3.2 inches high.

The plans are printed on one sheet of A3 paper, and come with cutting lists and exploded diagrams of the joints. Detailed instructions are not included. You will need to have some experience of wood-working at 1/12th scale. Some of the spindles can be adapted from commercially available items. Try Houseworks, Atlanta, USA.

Please Note: Our A3 size photocopier has given up the ghost, and I am selling at this price only what I have left. Price in the future will depend on commercial printer rates.

Price: 5 x 2nd class stamps plus a self-addressed sticky label (not stamped).

£1.00 each if purchased with other items. The sheet will be folded and come carriage paid in the parcel.

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