| November 22, 2003
To save time and effort, we ordered pre-manufactured cabinet
carcasses. The melamine boxes are shipped flat one big 1100 lb.
pallet, then we sorted the pieces by cabinet and assembled and hung
them. The price was quite reasonable, and saved me from having to
wrangle big heavy sheets of particle-board melamine to try to make my own
boxes. |
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| The cabinet carcasses are put to use immediately. I
discovered that the kitchen island makes a swell workbench, and the pantry
cabinet holds tools and supplies just fine. I mentioned this to my
wife, and she told me not to get any ideas... |
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| We use pocket screws to assemble the faceframes. Here
my wife is drilling the hole at an angle.. |
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| ...and the result. Special screws go through these
holes and attach it to the other piece. It is a strong, fast (and
cheap) way to assemble face frames, and is the way most cabinet shops
use. |
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| My wife sanding on the linen closet face frame on a glorious
fall day. |
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| 12-1-03
The under-cabinet lighting is installed, and I'm starting to cover the
exposed sides of the cabinets with white-oak skins. |
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| 12-24-03
It's been slow going, with lots of detail to have to attend to
(including weeks of sanding), but we're finally at the point where we can
stain. |
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| 12-31-03
After staining, the cabinets get two coats of secret sauce (mixture of
1/3 varnish, 1/3 linseed oil and 1/3 turpentine), then a coat of wipe-on
semi-gloss varnish. Then they are buffed with #0000 steel wool for a
silky-smooth finish. |
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| 1-4-03
With the doors and hardware installed on the over-closet cubbys, we
finally get a look of the finished product. |
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