This type of closet can be fitted with a folding door to facilitate furniture arranging in the room. Sometimes two closets are built into the same wall, one opening into one room and the other into an adjoining room, with a space between. This leaves an alcove which is a natural recess for builtin conveniences. Where only one closet is built into a room near a window, it is often worth while to construct a balancing closet on the other side. Alcove Builtins. Such an alcove is ideal for a builtin window seat (Figure 4.16), dressing table, desk, work table, snack bar, lavatory, headboard of a bee (Figure 4.17), or a doubledecker bunk, depending on the size. For a simple BUILTIN FURNITURE AND CONVENIENCES 26] vanity, desk or snack bar, the easiest type of construction merely involves tappinj the inner, facing walls of the closets to locate the studs, then nailing a piece 0 2 in. X 2 m or 2 in. X 4 in stock horizontally across each wall, 3031 in. fron the floor. If the distance is not too long, all that remains is to add the board to] across these cleats and face it with a 45 in. apron across the front. When neces sary, a pair of old table legs can be cleated near the center for additional support Courtesy Western Pine Association Fig. 4.15. Hanging desk which is essentially a builtin. To tie in the alcove with the rest of the room a cornice or valance can be cut oui of plywood, wallboard, or cardboardbacked wallpaper or cloth, and fastenec to the ceiling flush with the outer corner of the closet or closets. CustomBuilt Dressing Table. Better builtin construction involves the cabinetwork necessary to construct a piece of furniture that is cutombuilt to fil a particular part of a room. In an alcove of sufficient length, a dressing table 01 kneehole desk with drawer space on either side (Figure 4.18) would normally be built with sides, in the customary manner. In order to insure a flush fit with the walls, however, vertical front side strips are applied in the manner of those usee1 in the hunting board hutch described in Chapter 2. The first step in constructing any builtin convenience is to see that the floor is level and the walls plumb. To proceed on the assumption that they are often 262 FURNITURE MAKING AND CABINET WORK results in an unsatisfactory product, particularly if the house is an old one which has settled considerably. Should this be the case, allowance must be made so that the top of the vanity will be level, and its doors or drawers plumb. Fig, 4.16. Window seat between closets. If permissible, it is best to remove the baseboard on the wall against which a builtin convenience is to be constructed, so that the sides can be built close to the walls. If this cannot be done, the side strips must be cut to the profile of the baseboard so that they will fit flush against the wall. This can be easily accomplished by pressing a length of wire solder against the baseboard from floor to wall, then using it as a templet to mark the section at the bottom of the outer side strips, which must be cut out as in A of Figure 4.