The TV stand is finally done.  During the week I wrapped the bottom of the cabinet with some baseboard molding using the same procedure we used on our first built-in.  The only thing I may still do to the cabinet is re-coat the top and shelves with some cabinet grade enamel paint.  The latex paint […]

This is part 10 in our series on building a custom TV stand. There won’t be a part 12, I promise. Maybe a wrap up post, but that’s it. We’re almost, almost done. The cabinet is pretty much all built. I just have to attach the doors and install it. In today’s video I show […]

Two videos in one week.  I’m starting to feel like Steven Spielberg, sans the ability and talent.  Although let’s be honest, my scripts are WAY better than the Star Wars prequels.  Am I right? If you’ve been following this build along, so far you’ve seen us come up with the concept design and do the […]

After a busy week and a half here at home, things are finally getting back to normal.  I had a midterm in my night class and things at work got nuts for a bit.  Rather than scramble to throw a post together, I thought it would be best just to wait until things cooled off. […]

I’m a big fan of paternity leave.  It’s nice.  The new baby is great!  I honestly thought I’d have a little more free time to work on some home projects, but I’ve been swamped with school work and family baby time.  No complaints!  I did manage to knock a few items off my “to-do” list […]

Well we’re pretty much done the major carpentry portion of the built-in project.  Last time we posted about it we added the counter top and trimmed it with poplar to hide the exposed plywood edge.  Today we’re going to talk about the built-in shelves. Here’s what the built-in looks like with the top cabinet added.  […]

Hey guys!  We are slowly, but surely making progress on our sitting room built-in project.  The bottom cabinet is pretty much finished with the exception of a couple shelves I may add.  The top cabinet is built, but will definitely require a few shelves.  In this post, I’m going to show you how I added […]

If you caught our last post, you saw how we made the inset style doors for our built-in.  After letting them sit in the clamps for a couple days, I went about mounting the hinge hardware and installing the doors to the face frame.  I thought this would be orders of magnitude easier than the […]