A sideboard with lighting creates a lot of atmosphere and is very light in construction.
With the plug-in system made of acrylic glass building blocks, anyone can now do it.
Glasbaustein – that used to mean dirt, mortar and trowel. So far. Because now it's easy and mess-free – with the X-Block stones made of acrylic glass. A few months ago we presented the new technology to you here. But the almost unlimited possibilities, the system with its 20 x 20 cm large transparent stones, didn't let us rest. So here is a creative use of the colorful "Lego bricks".,
Hand tools are only required to shorten the all-round frame profiles. The connection technology of the building blocks is based on the tongue and groove principle: Each two adjacent sides are with a groove, the other two equipped with a spring. The building blocks are both with each other and with the frame profiles, which also have tongue and groove, pluggable.
Die X- Block – Acrylic glass building blocks are now part of the range of many hardware stores.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE X BLOCKS
The acrylic glass blocks have a groove on two adjacent sides and a tongue on the other two side edges. This is how you can put the X-Block stones together without tools.
Rubber sealing profiles are placed between the stones, in the longitudinal direction the approximately 4,2 m long profile strips, which can be shortened with a cutter knife if necessary. In height come about 20 cm long profile sections are used.
Finally, the frame profiles are closed with corner connectors.
And that's how it's done.
1 Die Aussparungen für die Lüftungsgitter mit einer Elektrostichsäge aussägen. For perfect corners, pre-drill with a 10mm wood drill bit, and you start sawing at a hole.
2 Mit Holzleim und Zwingen werden sämtliche Verbindungen stumpf zusammengeleimt.
3 Einen exakten Schrägschnitt bei den Seitenteilen erhält man, by clamping a strip of wood onto the plate. The jigsaw can be guided cleanly along it.
4 Lufteinlassöffnungen mit einem Forstner-oder Kunstbohrer bohren (see page 11).
5 Die Leuchten auf die hinteren Querstreben montieren und die drei Lüftungsgitter in die Aussparungen setzen.
6 Eine Gummidichtung verhindert den Lichtaustritt zwischen Wand und Rückseite.
THE CLEVER SWITCH PLUG
Because the lights are inside the sideboard, the lamp switch is unreachable. So you need an outside switch. Particularly clever: a plug with an integrated switch and an electric cable, which is simply connected to the lamp or its cable. The light switch then sits directly on the socket.