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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As promised in Wednesday’s Reclaimed Wood Frame post, I’m going to go into more detail on how I made the wooden frame.  This process is really applicable to any wood and not just reclaimed wood, although there is typically a little more upfront effort required for reclaimed lumber.  Reclaimed wood may need to be planed […]

Very happy to be building face frames back in the workshop, aka my basement!  To bring you up to speed, so far we picked an overall look of the design we want.  We then dimensioned the design based on where we’d like it and discussed the whole build process.  Next we designed the face frames […]

Another planning post?  Yep.  We do a lot of planning around here, if you haven’t noticed.  I was itching to get started on actually cutting some lumber this weekend for our built-ins, but alas, it will have to wait until tomorrow.  I did buy all the poplar I’ll need for face frames though, so expect […]