An old friend of mine had picked up a pair of antique doors and asked me to use them to create a piece of furniture for her. Since it was going to her home in Syracuse, New York, it seemed only fitting that we go with the Craftsman style popularized by Gustav Stickley in Syracuse in the early 20th Century.

This piece is based on and inspired by Stickley’s #815 china cabinet. It has solid quarter-sawn white oak in the frame, with flat-sawn white oak panels for contrast.

Inside the cabinet are three adjustable shelves, also fabricated from quarter-sawn white oak.

I opted to go with a sawtooth adjustable shelf system to maintain the antique character of the piece.

The door latch and catch hardware were original to the doors and were refinished for this project.