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New house building project #6: Little progress on the hall closet

PaBull — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:48:48 GMT

I was hoping to finish this closet over the Thanksgiving weekend, but as you can see, I did not get it done. Part is the inset doors and the mortised hinges, this all takes a lot of work to get it to fit just right. The Hinges were a little sloppy, which does not bother too much on taller doors, but on the upper doors, where the height is less than 24” it was a pain to get it to fit right.

On this cabinet I did not make the doors my self, I bought them from http://decore.com/. The hinges I bought at http://www.kennedyhardware.com/lift-off-hinge-with-finial.html

New house building project #5: Hall Closet

PaBull — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:24:55 GMT

I am working on a wall closet in a hallway which will be our main entrance for “regular” traffic. The wall unit needs to hold all out home school books, shoes, coats (should not be too many and not too long around here). The closet is 135” long and 113” tall. The face frame is one unit and assembled on the spot.

New house building project #4: Glass doors for the 6 medicine cabinets

PaBull — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:06:16 GMT

Today I was busy making the glass doors for the medicine cabinets for all the bathrooms in the house. I thought I might as well share the fun with you guys. First thing I had to do after I cut the styles and rails, was make a jig to do the coping on the router table. My router table is build in with the table saw, very basic. Here some pictures of that jig.

The pictures are not the best, I took them with my PDA, sorry.

The jig rides against the edge of the table.

Now here the jig in action:

I used an old caulking gun to keep the rail in place.

Next was the sticking of the styles and rails.

I was afraid that 1.5” styles and rails would not stay together, so I reinforced by using the Kregg to put some screws in each corner.

After the doors were put together, I had to remove the back lip to make these doors “glass doors”.

I changed the router bit and moved the barrings all to the top.

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I took several passes to remove all the wood.

Next was the fillers.

Planing them down.

And squaring up the corners.

I will keep you posted when they are installed and finished.

New house building project #3: Plugging away at the closets.

PaBull — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:22:15 GMT

OK Mr Trim, today is your lucky day, I am posting so you don’t have to.

The pictures are taken with my PDA, so they are not the best quality. This first picture is me still finishing some cabinet doors going into the laundry room.

These are step stools, bought at IKEA for the short people in our household to reach the upper cabinets going all the way up to the 9’ ceiling.

Working on the closets and pantry. We are using laminated solid pine for shelving. I finished these with a lacquer. I bought an HFLP for this.

Now here I could use some advice. Around the fireplace I made some build-ins. The face is solid Poplar bead board. I ran this in my shop and even made the doors out of the same stock to match the face. BUT i used 1/2” birch ply as cleats on the back and glued them on. This made the doors warp very bad. I want to try this again. So I will get some more poplar and match the bead detail of the doors to the face of the cabinet, but how do I attach cleat to the back of the doors and paint them and keep the flat????

New house building project #2: Finishing the cabinets for upstairs bathrooms.

PaBull — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:57:06 GMT

Last night, just like almost every night for the last months, I am working on the cabinets for the laundry room and the kids bathrooms upstairs.

New house building project #1: Our new house week #23

PaBull — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:23:36 GMT

So, we finally got some work done around the new house this week. We are watching the finances (business is not the greatest this year) and this slows us down a bit. A couple of weeks ago we did get our final, so now the push is to get the house livable.

Outside we are grading 12” off the top of the yard and we will backfill this with good soil. Our yard is DG, you can not get a shovel in the ground.

the garage is still a mess, everytime i do a little project, i need week to get it cleared out again. Part is i need more storage, but the house come first.

I had some help putting the base moulding, That I have been painting the past week.

the same people hang the doors for us.

Today I worked on staining the second set of stairs. I did get the first coat of tung oil on too.