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 […]

Hey everybody!  Thanks for stopping by our Pinterest Challenge post!  We’re very excited to be sharing with you a project that was a lot of fun for Lisa and I to work on together.  If you haven’t been following along lately, we’ve been making built-ins for our sitting room and have been pinning some cool […]

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 […]

Happy belated Valentine’s Day to everyone in blog land.  For the two special ladies in my life, I made lobster rolls for dinner.  Lisa handled the dessert and baked a flour-less cake on Wednesday.  Needless to say, we ate too much.  I ended up going with the lobster tails instead of the whole lobster.  I […]

Hey guys!  Hope your weekend was enjoyable!  We played it low key around here and didn’t do too much.  We were hoping to get some major snow from Nemo like our friends up North, but we only ended up with a little more than a dusting.  This will be the second winter in a row […]

So it’s been around a month or so since we started setting up our sitting room. We added a couch and finished hiding the HDMI cable now we’ve just finished up the work on the power cables for our flat screen TV. We really enjoy the space so far. It’s nice to have a place […]