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Custom Media Cabinet Part 2: Face Frames

Hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful weekend!  Last week we started the design work on our custom media cabinet by constraining our overall dimensions and making a rough drawing of how it should look.  Today, we’re going to pickup where we left off and do some detailed design work starting with the face frames. […]

October 6th, 2013
Custom Media Cabinet Part 1: Concept Design

Very happy to be diving into another carpentry project.  If you’re new to our blog, last spring we made a built-in from scratch and installed it in our sitting room.  This time around we’re building a custom media cabinet to match.  Over the course of the next few weeks, we’re going to show our readers […]

October 3rd, 2013
How to Add Trim to Cabinets

Hey all! Hope everyone is doing well. Had another productive weekend around here. We got a huge jump on our Pinterest Challenge project. Stay tuned for that! We posted a couple hint photos on our Instagram account. Last week, we wrapped up our sitting room built-in. I also promised a quick post on how to […]

May 5th, 2013
How to Make a Built-In Cabinet

***UPDATE: The plans to this built-in cabinet are now available for free to our newsletter subscribers.  If you are interested in subscribing to our free newsletter to get access to these plans, just sign up using the form in this post.*** Monday is my first day back to work after two wonderful weeks home with […]

April 28th, 2013
How to Install a Built-In Cabinet

Hey everybody!  Hope you all had a great weekend.  We’ve made some major progress on our built-in project which, if you follow us on Instagram, you may have already gotten a peek of it.  We still have a little bit of finishing work to do yet, but we expect to wrap that up by the […]

April 7th, 2013
Sanding and Painting Unfinished Furniture

Happy Tuesday! Sure beats Happy Monday, am I right?  We are just moments away from wrapping up our built-in project.  All the cabinet work has been primed and painted, I just need to add a second coat to some areas.  I don’t know if I’ve ever shared the basic process I follow when I sand […]

April 1st, 2013
How to Build a Cabinet

With our face frames built, the plywood all dimensioned and cut out of the 4×8 sheets,  it’s time to machine and assemble the cabinets.  As I mentioned, I’m using dados and grooves.  Most of the pieces will receive some type of groove.  Here’s what the sides of the bottom cabinet look like with their grooves. […]

March 12th, 2013
Making Plywood Cut Sheets

Hey everybody!  Hope you all had a great weekend!  We made major progress on our built-ins.  The bottom cabinet is fully assembled and I’ll be working the top cabinet early this week.  To recap, last week we knocked out the doors and test fit them into the face frame.  This week’s post will start with […]

March 10th, 2013
How to Make Shaker Style Inset Cabinet Doors

Well, our built-in doors are done.  We’re going with a shaker style inset type door for the bottom cabinet.  It’s the same door style as in our first home’s kitchen and is the same style door in all the built-in photos we’ve been pinning.  What other options are there besides inset?  You can have 3/4 […]

March 6th, 2013
New Video: Adding a Center Divider

Hey gang!  Hope everyone had a great weekend!  We made some major headway on our built-in project this past weekend.  I’ve got the doors finished and the plywood for the boxes all cut.  All I’ve got left to do is machine the plywood with some grooves and dados and we’ll be assembling it.  So far […]

March 4th, 2013
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