Kitchen renovation, Phase I, complete - almost
Phase I is done. Well I didn't get the doors on the lower cabinets hung yet, but that may happen soon.
We started with 6 8' red oak 2x4. At $5/foot, one wants to be careful with this lumber. Gloss polyurethane on three sides, don't need anything on the 2" side on the floor. That is only three of them. The yellow sheets to the right are the unhung doors.
Here is what is left of another after being cut.
And here are the other two, with pull out drawer frames screwed down to ensure proper spacing. They won't stay here though, this is just for a future Phase III.
These are the same two frames, but on the other side of the table. The further one holding the flour bin, the closer the sugar bin. You can also see the first spice in the 21" spice drawer.
This is what the first side looked like this AM, liquor on the right, oils and hot sauce, carbonated beverages, rice, a snapping turtle and a rice cooker. Yes that thing sticking up between the rice and the cooker is the shell of a snapping turtle. You can see the back of the pull out shelves as well.
We started with 6 8' red oak 2x4. At $5/foot, one wants to be careful with this lumber. Gloss polyurethane on three sides, don't need anything on the 2" side on the floor. That is only three of them. The yellow sheets to the right are the unhung doors.
Here is what is left of another after being cut.
And here are the other two, with pull out drawer frames screwed down to ensure proper spacing. They won't stay here though, this is just for a future Phase III.
These are the same two frames, but on the other side of the table. The further one holding the flour bin, the closer the sugar bin. You can also see the first spice in the 21" spice drawer.
This is what the first side looked like this AM, liquor on the right, oils and hot sauce, carbonated beverages, rice, a snapping turtle and a rice cooker. Yes that thing sticking up between the rice and the cooker is the shell of a snapping turtle. You can see the back of the pull out shelves as well.
"I may even get pictures up today."
Cool!
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And as you can see, I did.
Next week I should be back to food, since I'm planning on smoking bacon and making sausage.
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Truly, You are the Master!
Not only does the kitchen have everything within hands reach but it looks wonderful!
What an inspiration.
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That was the idea, to have the most common things closest. Prior to this the big spice jars were on another table, the small ones on a counter and the liquids were in the pantry. Now they are in two drawers and on a turntable in/on the prep table all near the most used work space on the table. No longer do we need bend to get flour and sugar, they are at a comfortable height.
We had always planned on putting a shelf under the prep table, but this is better and was faster to do. Furniture, and I consider that table to be such, is time consuming to build.
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The idea was to put as much as possible at hand's reach. The stuff in the upper drawers is more likely to be used than that in the lower.
In turn this emptyed a lot of space in the pantry and some of the canned goods in the basement will be moving upstairs.
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This is a thing of beauty.
You know, you've got a lot of booze in that there cupboard.
I'm just saying...
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Yup
(burp)
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Hey looks great, I love those nifty drawers!
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I love the drawers. Kitchen remodels are a pain no matter how large or small.
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I've been told that living and using a kitchen while remodeling it cuts out your time in Purgatory.
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my great grandmother had built in bins for flour, rice, potatoes, onions... i wonder why that was ever stopped. i would love to have built in bins for everything. i can't wait until the kitchen is complete and we get the grand tour.
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Bravo! Looks terrific. My kind of kitchen. Do you hire out>
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I'm a frustrated stage carpenter working as an electical engineer.
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Oh there will be pictures on phase II, but that won't be for a few months. I've the wood in the house, but since I have to pull the sink and garbage disposal, which renders the dish washer unusable I need to take more than a series of weekends to do it.
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Lookin' good so far! I would like a table like that. My island is OK, but yours looks much more useful.
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I built the table in 2006, essentially around a slab of granite. The rest of the top is unfinished red oak flooring so the entire surface is food prep. The entire lip of the table was made to take wood clamps, so fastening something down is easy. I've even got wood that fits the base of the KA(s) so they don'w move when that wood is clamped.
It will get electric soon, but I would really like a sink, but that was beyond me.
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Whoo! That looks like a lot of work, nice job! I love the pull out racks!
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My OCD mind is reveling in this kitchen. I especially love how you labeled the tops of your spices.
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That was my wife and if they aren't labeled you have to pick each one up to tell what they are.
Neither of us has ever been troubled by an OCD mind except when food preserving where sanitation is very important.
In Brooklyn we had a 7x11 foot kitchen that I built myself. In moving out of the city one of the requirements was a big kitchen. One where we could both really work.
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You did an excellent job with the work center!
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