Desks, Bookcases & Entertainment Centers
Working Furniture for Your Home
Well-made furniture needs to accomplish two things: it needs to work hard in your home and look good doing it. Your desk needs to help you get your work done, your bookcases need to hold lots of stuff without a complaint, and your entertainment center is essential in bringing your family together for years to come.

Now, with Desks, Bookcases & Entertainment Centers and the help of Woodworker's Journal, America's leading woodworking authority, you too can build hard-working and beautiful furniture for the home. From an Arts & Crafts stereo cabinet to a Queen Anne writing desk, this book delivers a variety of 15 good-looking projects that will get to work providing comfort and functionality the moment they leave your shop. Plus, each project includes detailed plans, expert instructions, and helpful tips to ensure your finished piece is built to last.

What's Inside:
- 15 attractive and functional projects in a variety of classic styles
- Comprehensive material lists
- Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions
- Detailed technical and exploded drawings
- Helpful quick tips from the experts

One of the most respected magazines in the field, brings the voice of expert woodworkers to its readers. The publishers believe in a 'community” approach to woodworking, where good design is not a secret to be guarded, but shared, and woodworkers learn from one another's mistakes and successes.

Best of Woodworker's Journal: Desks, Bookcases & Entertainment Centers is a collection of furniture pieces that provide comfort and organization the minute they leave the shop. As part of a new 10-book series from the pages of Woodworker's Journal, editors have selected 15 functional projects for the home. Projects include a Queen Anne writing desk, a cherry Arts and Crafts stereo cabinet, a modular computer desk, a walnut library bookcase, and elegant entertainment center and more. It features technical and exploded drawings, materials list for each project, step-by-step instructions, and helpful quick tips.

A few pages into this Woodworker's Journal compilation and I was giving it the thumbs down, dismissing it because the first of its 15 projects are reproduction pieces, a concept I have difficulty in reconciling in conjunction with modern technology - not that the images featured anything so vulgar as a PC. But of course you should never judge a book by its opening spreads, and I could happily contemplate a computer on a Sanle Fe-slyle desk, a workmanlike but elegant computer desk with ample storage for files and ledger, and a 4-piece modular computer desk.

Where this book really scores, however, is in its presentation. Each project comes wilh pages 01 highly delailed technical
drawings and materials lisls along with useful technique tips and clear photos. And if you need a bookcase to store it in,
there are several here that should more than fit the bill.