Even When Making One Cabinet, We Look at the Whole Home.

Through Yongin Cheonggu’s carpentry work list and cabinet installation record, we follow how furniture meets walls, doors and light to become part of a home.

ATELIER SOW · Residential Interior Design · Construction

Completed Yongin Cheonggu kitchen with timber wall cabinets, light-coloured storage, a window and a worktop — Completed photograph. Timber wall cabinets, a window, a worktop and light-coloured cabinetry together in the Yongin Cheonggu kitchen. An existing public project photograph.

Before the Shape of the Furniture, We Consider Its Place in the Home.

In an apartment renovation, a cabinet is more than a box for belongings. We also need to consider where it meets the neighbouring wall, which way its doors open and which face is visible from another room.

Yongin Cheonggu’s carpentry work list marks the entrance partition, living-room TV cabinet, pipe enclosures, door frames, wall shelves and cabinetry on a single plan. Rather than drawing each piece in isolation, the record considers the points where different parts meet throughout the home.

Carpentry Throughout the Home

Entrance partition and inner entrance door work Living-room TV cabinet and pipe enclosures Door frames and recessed wall shelves Review of reinforcement for ceiling-mounted fixtures

Where Furniture Meets Other Work

Division of responsibilities for carpentry, glass and furniture On-site coordination required with glass and furniture contractors Scope of supply for door hardware Review of matching the faces visible from the adjoining room

Items checked in a single eight-page carpentry work list are summarised across these two cards. Original drawings, dimensions, reference images and photographs of the residents’ daily life are omitted. These were proposals under review at the time, not a claim that every form or detail was built exactly as shown.

An Intermediate Scene Not Seen in the Completed Photographs.

In the site photograph, the timber shelves are in place, but wiring remains exposed and protective film still covers the surrounding cabinetry. A ladder and tools are also still on site.

This is not a photograph of fabrication in a furniture workshop; it records the stage of installing a cabinet inside the home. With the timber kitchen wall cabinets and window behind it, and the door beside it, the view reveals how one cabinet is made in relation to its surroundings rather than as a standalone object.

Timber shelves, exposed wiring, protective film and a ladder during cabinet installation at Yongin Cheonggu — An actual site record. Timber shelves, wiring, protective film on cabinetry and a work ladder are visible. The exact photograph dates for individual construction stages have not been confirmed.

Glass Doors and Light Join the Timber Shelves.

In the completed photograph, a pair of glass doors stands in front of the timber shelves, with light on each shelf. The timber also connects visually with the kitchen wall cabinets beside them.

The same cabinet and surrounding kitchen can be read in the site record and completed photograph. However, the work list also contains a curved furniture proposal, while the completed photograph shows a straight-fronted cabinet. We do not treat the proposed and completed forms as identical: the documents show items for coordination, while the photographs show what was actually made.

Completed kitchen cabinet at Yongin Cheonggu with timber shelves, a pair of glass doors and internal lighting — Completed photograph. The same cabinet and kitchen behind it can be seen in the site photograph. This is not a comparison from an identical viewpoint or a verification of precise dimensions, nor does it mean the original curved proposal was built unchanged. The reason for the difference between the proposed and completed forms has not been confirmed.

Coordination on One Plan Continues into the Entrance.

At the entrance, an open timber niche with lighting sits between light-coloured storage walls. Beside it is a timber inner entrance door with a translucent panel. Closed storage, an open recess and the door into the home appear together.

A home cannot be described only by how much storage has been added. We consider what to conceal and reveal, and where to linger or pass through. Yongin Cheonggu’s work list and site record show how residential design continues beyond the drawings, as the parts are fitted together in the actual home.

Light-coloured entrance storage walls, a lit timber niche and a translucent-panel timber inner entrance door at Yongin Cheonggu — Completed photograph. The entrance brings together a lit timber niche in the storage wall and an inner entrance door. Changes in performance before and after construction, or any increase in storage capacity, have not been measured.

Construction photographs: project site records · Completed photographs: existing project records

As Much as the Inside of a Cabinet, We Look at the Space It Meets.