More cabinet building

lisa June 11th, 2003

Mark and I took this whole week off from work to work on our kitchen cabinets. We’ve made a lot of progress, and should be pretty much done by Friday. This weekend we’re going to start on the front porch.

The process of cabinet-making is not rocket science, but you do have to measure very, very carefully. We’re only building the cabinets themselves right now - the doors and drawers will have to wait until we have the money to buy the maple. Luckily, Mark has already acquired all the tools he needs to make the doors, which will be an exacting and time-consuming process. But we’re saving a ton of money by building the cabinets ourselves, plus this way we get to make them exactly how we want. Custom cabinets, site-built to our specifications.

We’re in a period of great change. As we finish the cabinets, the woodworking equipment will move to the basement. Then the plumbers will come and finish plumbing the kitchen appliances and the two bathrooms. Then the upstairs sitting room will move to the first floor, and we’ll work on cosmetics in two of the upstairs rooms (sitting room and bedroom - strip wallpaper and paint, repair plaster, and re-paint). My priority right now is to get the downstairs more livable (paint, trim, clean) and to finish redoing one of the other bedrooms so that we have a guest room. We’re expecting family for a visit at the end of July. There’s a lot to do, but by then we should have a working kitchen, two working bathrooms, and places for them to sleep - I can’t guarantee the place will be totally clean, but at least it won’t be the chaotic mess it is now.

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