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Sliding Drawers Part 4: Getting Groovy with Dado Blades

Well this project sure feels like it’s dragging on a bit!!  It really shouldn’t take this long to finish, but between work trips, booked up weekends and normal parent-life activities it’s hanging around a little longer than I’d like.  But that’s okay!  I would like to stress that if you have a free weekend, you […]

March 15th, 2012
Sliding Drawers Part 3: Machining the Joints

So our sliding drawer project is coming along slowly, but nicely.  We’ve measured and purchased our wood and we’ve cut it to its width and length.  Now comes the tricky part, we’re going to start making the joints and other cut features of the drawers.  This can be an intimidating part of the project, especially […]

March 7th, 2012
Sliding Drawers Part 2: Making Cuts

Now that the weekend is over, it’s back to work on our sliding drawers!  I hope I’m not dragging this out too much for you.  Ideally, it would be nice to have one post that showed how to make a sliding drawer from start to finish, but I feel that there is a lot to […]

March 5th, 2012
Sliding Drawers Part 1: Planning and Picking Material

Since this is my first post on any real type of carpentry project, I thought I’d share some of the process I go through when I’m starting something like the kitchen sliding drawers.  If you’ve never done any type of wood working before, I hope you find this helpful. CLICK HERE FOR PARTS 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. 1. Measuring […]

February 29th, 2012
Sliding Kitchen Cabinet Drawers

Notice anything new around here?  We finally got around to upgrading our header.  After I read this post from Michelle at Decor and the Dog, Lisa and I spent some time picking photos and messing with picnik.com.  I have to admit, our new header looks perhaps a bit too much like Michelle’s old one, but […]

February 27th, 2012
Our Kitchen

Believe it or not, Lisa and I are just getting over our brutal weekend a couple weeks ago where we installed hardwood floors in our family room!  I think my last splinter just came out.  I had about a dozen of them AND I was wearing gloves!  It was ridiculous.  I had three bandaids on […]

January 23rd, 2012
New Countertop Height Benches

The other day I picked up two awesome countertop height benches at Christmas Tree Shops.  Did you know they are owned by Bed Bath and Beyond? Once I figured this out I did a google search looking for CTS coupons.  Now whenever I know I am going to be shopping there I always search for […]

July 18th, 2011
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