I just completed a double dresser/chest of drawers two weeks ago and I couldn't help but post this here.
See, I was thinking this morning about the Golden Ratio and I just wondered how close I came with my dresser project. When I was designing it I stood in front of the old dresser and measured width, and I wanted it a bit wider, I think I added like 2.5" or something like that. I think I added maybe a half inch to the height and then started cutting wood. I only had one single dresser to work from but I wanted to make two separate cabinets that butted up against each other with one continuous top across both. I just eyeballed it in the worst possible way.
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So I was at the computer this morning thinking about it so I found a Golden Ratio calculator via Google, converted my dimensions for the whole double cabinet to millimeters and put those into the calculator. I came in 11mm from the exact Golden Ratio in height. Had I left off that half inch in height I would've been a lot closer. I'm just dumbfounded that I landed this close to it given how I came up with my dimensions in layout.
Anyway, I just thought this was kind of funny.
Wayne