A Glazed Oak Cabinet for a Library
Six guns, one panelled room, and a client who did not want a safe in his library.
What we were asked for
A small collection, well looked after, living in a steel cabinet in a boot room because that was where the steel cabinet fitted. The client wanted the guns in the room he actually sits in, and he wanted the room to look no different for it.
What we built
A glazed cabinet in quarter-sawn oak, drawn to the existing bookcase run: same cornice, same plinth, same reveal where it meets the shelving. Astragal glazing bars to match the windows rather than the standard pattern. From the doorway it reads as the middle section of the bookcases.
Behind the timber it is a steel enclosure, anchored properly into the structural wall rather than the plaster. That anchoring is the part nobody sees and the part that is not negotiable — if the wall will not take it, the cabinet does not go there.
The detail that mattered most
The interior. A cabinet is judged from the outside and used from the inside: baize-lined rack cut to the guns actually going in it, correct spacing so nothing touches, and a drawer beneath for the rest of it. Ammunition is in a separate lockable compartment, as it must be.
Eleven weeks from approved drawings, fitted by our site team in a day.
A cabinet that belongs in the room
Send us a general list of what you own and a few wide photographs. We will tell you what we would build and roughly what it would cost.
We do not publish client names, house names, street names or the detail of any security arrangement. Counties are given only where the client is content for us to do so.
A cabinet of this kind is drawn from our glazed cabinets, and The Deben in the standard range is the closest published version. See the specification or how a commission works.