What have y'all been building?

Aug 06, 2024 Last reply: 1 year ago 3 Replies

Derby Dad and I have been communicating a bit via e-mail. He has been busy remodeling their kitchen.


So My wife and I remodeled our kitchen a year ago starting in February.



New floor, relocation of the refrigerator, added a 11 foot peninsula and all Lower cabinets with the exception of 1 narrow one have all drawers now. The peninsula has 12 drawers. We now have 53 drawers in the kitchen including the 26 in the pantry that I build 13 years ago.



We went with dark brown painted cabinets with walnut framed doors with white oak pin stripe. Door panels are quarter sawn white oak.



Counter tops are two tone Silestone Quartz. And of course when spending money my wife wanted a Rivati double height sink along with new plumbing fixtures. In December the refrigerator quit making ice so now a new one of those. And in July the dishwasher pump went out for the



3rd time so a new one of those too.

Doors on, drawers fronts next.



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Drawers with no handles yet.



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Drawers with some handles.



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And that fancy new sink.



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Then a customer wanted a blanket chest to sit on while getting dressed.



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Then a mahogany entertainment center house warming gift form our son and his wife. They now need a bigger TV!.



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Door Detail. I designed the scroll work from a provided picture and converted to a file for my Shaper Origin.



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And finally and currently a couple of cabinets for storage. I'm painting it with GF Milk Paint Seagull Grey. It has a slight bluish tint.



So far all dado, groove, rabbit, Domino tennon, and glue construction.



That will change with drawer slides, leveling feet, and screws to attach the backs.


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Leon



Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in news:W0SdnTk4JeGqqy snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Have you found a good depth for the drawers that fit most items without clutter? Our kitchen now has drawers that are too shallow to fit ladles nicely, so I've been thinking deeper would be nice but how deep?

Soon it will be someone else's problem, though. Gonna remodel the kitchen by buying a new house.

Puckdropper

The top drawers in my kitchen are 3.5" deep (~6" face), the bottom drawers are 6.5" deep with 8.75" face.

Shallow drawers are 3" deep, the deep drawers bottom to top edge, 8".

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