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Show an min 4 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday Magazine Janaury S21 22, 1984 Build it yourself with patterns Kitchen cart keeps free counter-spac- e by Steve Ellingson TO COINCIDE with the wave of kitchen remodeling now sweeping over the country, here is a new project that will fit right in. Incorporated into the design of this cart are all the suggestions and requests from readers like yourselves. This kitchen utility center is truly loaded with convenience features! The sturdy construction of this cart will hold your microwave oven and free and keep your other counter-spac- e uncluttered. If you like, display your spirits in the wine rack, and keep your collection of cookbooks within reach for shelf can quick reference. The pull-obe used for food preparation or as a chopping board. ut Measuring approximately 30 inches width by 22 inches depth by 70 inches high, this functional kitchen unit can be made with ball casters for ease in movp ing and cleaning. The plan includes instructions, photos and a complete materials list. 749 Kitchen Utility TO OBTAIN Center, please send $3.95. Also available is our 642 Chopping Block, $3.95. Both prices include first class postage and handling. Our latest Patterns For Better Living catalog picturing over 700 woodworking and handicraft projects, is available for only $1.95. California residents please add six percent sales tax. Please send check or money order to Steve Ellingson co The Salt Lake Tribune Pattern Dept., P.O. Box 2383, Van Nuys, Calif. 91409 step-by-ste- rq O The home workshop ADO STRIP 1X2 TO WOOD FRONT EDGE Simple instructions for converting plywood into low-coshelving GLJJE AND NAIL AT INTERVALS 12 st AO JUSTS PACING TO SUIT OBJECTS ON SHELVES by Larry Eisinger wood filler. quire filling with a paste You have a few choices as to how to mount your shelving to the wall. We have found the adjustable vertical standards most convenient because you can of interchange bracket widths and, shelvthe between distance course, the available in ing. Shelf standards are 12 inches from various lengths ranging to six feet and can be cut down if necesand use a a sary. Mount them into stud screw that will penetrate at least of wood. Set at no greater than 60 NO HOME OR shop ever seems to have enough shelf space, so here are some simple instructions on converting a single sheet of plywood into 32 linear feet of shelving. If all you need are shelves for books, a full sheet of plywood will yield 48 feet of shelving! One problem wijth using plywood, MDO or even solid lumber is that the shelves will sag over the years if normally loaded and you use too few brackets. Not so with the shelving illustrated. The anti-sa- g feature of these shelves is a four-by-eig- straight inches apart. WE ALSO PUBLISH four hardcover books on Carpentry, Plumbing, Electritexts, With Concrete. cal and hundreds of photos and drawings, these books will help you do a better job. In, furring strip nailed and glued to the front edge. Not only does this strip make the shelf more rigid but it also hides the end grain of the plywood which otherwise would re-- - v, co The Salt Lake Tribune, Box 158, fact, if you are not completely satisfied, Staten Island, N.Y., 10314. Specify book your money will be refunded! Each book title and make your check payable to cost $3.95 plus 60 cents shipping. Send Ji55 fop eaqh book to Hoqievy qrkshop Vj. piseinger Communications, Inc. . ',VVVVAWvVi l'i t v s ' v t t't S.t , , , |