Do you have something around your home that’s been sorta broken but not quite broken enough to fix it yet?  For us, that forever broken item has been the closet door in our master bedroom.  Since our home is still fairly new (built in 2010) it’s subject to some degree of settling and movement.  Usually […]

I’m a big fan of paternity leave.  It’s nice.  The new baby is great!  I honestly thought I’d have a little more free time to work on some home projects, but I’ve been swamped with school work and family baby time.  No complaints!  I did manage to knock a few items off my “to-do” list […]

It’s nice to be back in the swing of things.  Lisa and I are adjusting nicely to life with two kids.  So far so good.  The real challenge will be when they both can walk or climb.  That will be an adventure.. an exhausting adventure.  This weekend we started catching up on some projects that […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]