I promised plans today and here they are! Hopefully I’ll be seeing how a sheet of plywood fits into a Honda Pilot today. A Home Depot employee and I had a discussion on this matter several months ago, and he assured me that the old model Pilot fit a sheet with no troubles, while the newest version fits a sheet, but just barely. We traded on our 12 year old van for a Pilot in July–the Honda salesman was a little bewildered by my interest in fitting lumber in the trunk 🙂 We bought the old model, so hopefully no worries.
I’ve kept the pictures at a large size so that you can click on them to enlarge and see the dimensions better. I don’t know if that will work, but we’ll try it out.
Obviously this is not to scale. As a general rule I like to use graph paper and get it somewhat to scale so I am not surprised by how the project ends up appearing. Today I am walking on the wild side.
And here goes the disclaimer: Use these plans at your own risk!! I already modified some dimensions, that affected other dimensions, and although I think I did a good job going back and making the changes, I’m not guaranteeing that!! From here on out I’ll be in the garage and lucky if I remember to take the pictures I need, much less jot down the corrections to the mistakes I’ll probably find.
I always feel better after saying all that, ha ha. But the changes I made allowed me to utilize the entire sheet of 3/4″ plywood more effectively, just by shaving off 1/4″ of the width on the sides of the hutch (which also changed the width on the shelves). I went and measured some of her books, and 10.25″ is plenty of width for even the biggest ones she has. I am using up some various pieces of scrap ply I’ve got from other projects, for the sides of all 6 drawers–love using up scrap! I would have preferred to use 1/2″ ply for the drawers, but I’d rather utilize the entire sheet, so 3/4″ it is.
There you’ve got it! I’ll be trying out my brand-spanking new Kreg Rip Cut on this, as well as the Kreg shelf pin jig. I got those back in June/July for my birthday, if you recall. Sad that it has taken me this long to break them out of their packaging, but I can’t wait to use them now!
rwethairyet says
I discovered your blog, oh….about the time you took a break from posting for the new job. I really enjoyed reading through your older posts, found lots of great tips and had a chuckle or two along the way, especially when things you said reminded me of myself.
I’m fairly new to the diy blogs. Just a little over a year ago we bought a house that needed massive renovations(it might have been easier to tear it down and slap a prefab up, ha ha) I had never done anything more than tighten screws and pound in a nail here and there, but as we’ve tried to do so much of the work ourselves (meaning me, since hubby’s chief skill is picking up the phone to call the handyman and writing him a check.), I’ve had to learn a lot along the way. Thanks to blogs like yours, I’ve not only found fantastic resources for the “how to” portion, but even more importantly the idea that Yes, I can do these things I”m asking of myself.
Glad to see you back.
Sherri
Pink Toes and Power Tools says
So glad to have you here Sherri! Welcome to the DIY world–once that bug bites you, there’s no turning back, lol! I hope you are taking lots of pictures while you make your changes. It is so fun to go back and see your progress…and sometimes seeing that progress is what gets you through the trouble spots of a current project 🙂