More kitchen upgrade
I left off with my mom having painted the cabinets and we had removed a trash compactor, leaving a hole where a cabinet is to go. I bought a cabinet that is similar in design but not quite right for the space, so modifications had to be made. Over the past few days I have gotten the cabinet ready to be painted.
Here is the hole left by removing the trash compactor. The dead corner cabinet had the door and drawer removed so the compactor would fit. I closed up that space in the event something wanted to slip through the small gap that would remain.
The new cabinet was actually built for a door and a drawer. I needed to remove the door, drawer, a fixed shelf, and the upper two face frame rails. The sides, back, and vertical face frame pieces needed to be lowered a bit too. Here I am getting ready to mark the vertical parts for their finished height.
The toe kick area was not exactly the same as the other cabinets. Before doing the face frame modifications I added strips to the bottom and to the front of the toe kick to match the rest of the cabinets. This got the bottom face frame rail to line up and the new baseboard (later) will be right across all cabinets.
Finally I slid the cabinet into place. Note the gap between the new cabinet and the one on the left. When the previous homeowner installed the trash compactor he/she butchered that face frame. There are two things I can do. One would be to take my time and carefully chisel away that frame piece and make a new one to fit. The other is to make a very thin strip of wood to cover the gap and paint it to match the cabinets. I will opt for the second idea, at least for the short term.
What is remaining is to screw the cabinet in place, paint, make and install a new door, and make the slide out mechanism for the trash and recycling.
posted by Tim B. @ 9:10 AM
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This is looking very nice. Will the space have the door attached to the slide mechanism for the trash holder or will you just have a door and slide a basket in the space?
why did you buy a cabinet? With all the work you put into this one, it seems as tho you could have built a custom one from scratch.
Very neat stuff here. Your kitchen really is coming along. Is the crafty gene part of the Beauregard DNA? If so, yay! If not, I'll take a helping of craftiness...
Cheryl: There will be a door on hinges, then inside a slide out container with a divider for trash and recycling.
Adrienne: Excellent question. A couple of reasons. I would have had to buy materials anyway. Buying the cabinet (at a discount place) didn't cost much more than the materials would have. And making the modifications to an existing one seemed to me much simpler than starting a new one from scratch. There were several SMALL things that may have made it look like a more daunting task. This way took less time.
Sean: Maybe it skips a generation. Consult Mendel. :-)
I would have agreed with the "skip a generation" part if I hadn't learned in the last few decades how much Bernie enjoyed woodworking and how good he turned out to be at it.
So it doesn't skip generations, it skips people. And the children of those of us who were skipped still have a chance of picking it up from previous generations. Yay.
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