Do We Have Enough?

I've started cleaning up the drawers and thought I'd see how much storage space there actually would be and as it turns out just the drawers for this wall only, we'll have 24 cubic feet of storage. I haven't calculated the space under and over the oven or the cabinet that will go over the fridge or even the upper cabinets over the main counter area. It has to be enough, we'll see.

A strange thing happen yesterday when we got home, something eat our mail box and yes I mean eat. From the picture below you can see what happened, and it was left just beside the post it was sitting on. I wonder what did it and what damage it may have cased to the machine that eat it.

Here is what 24 cubic feet of drawers looks like.

Our mail box, after it was spit out, folded inside out.

Once Again They're Taking Shape

The drawers are taking shape, last week I cut the dado's for drawer bottoms, I took two days to set up the dovetail jig and cut the dovetails, because I haven't used it very often, so it took several tries to get the fit just right. Once that was done I was able to get them done. It took two days because I had a few rounds of golf in the middle. Yesterday I assembled six and the remaining five today. Tomorrow I'll give them the once over, fix any little accidents that may have occurred during cutting and assembly, that can happen when you cut dovetails with a router into plywood. Then a final coat of poly and start fitting them in the cabinets.

The first six, I only have so much room to lay them out.

The final five.

Still Here, Still Working

I'm still here and working, some of what I have been doing really doesn't show well in pictures. Let me see, where do I start, I put on the edge banding on the base cabinets and they are painted, 3 coats. I applying poly to several sheets of plywood for the drawers. Each sheet of ½ inch got three coats per side and the sheet and a half of ¼ inch only to one side. During all this I did manage to get some time in at the golf club, a good rest and needed distraction. Back to work this past weekend and this week. We picked up the bottom mounted soft closing drawer slides and hinges on Friday so I'll have the proper measurements for the drawers, they are a little different then the side mounted ones. I then cut the boards to finished dimensions and have spent the last day and a half putting on the edge banding. Tomorrow I'll cut the groves for the bottoms, and then start on the dovetails for the drawers, its all set up and ready to go. Did I mention there are 11 drawers.

You can see the finished base cabinets, the bottoms for the
drawers and the two boxes of hardware.

The other base cabinets waiting to be installed.

It may not look like much but there are the drawers.
You can see in the foreground a sample drawer made up
to make sure it goes well.

Base Cabinets

I finally assembled the last base cabinets this evening, earlier I make the base frames for them to sit on. And yesterday I completed the cabinet for the sink, this one required a little more work. It requires a frame to hold the sink, supports for it to set on, because it is recommended that it hold 350 lbs, that's the sink, water and a garbage disposal, if installed, which we are not. It also needed a little extra work to fit the frame under the front, it is slightly round, after a bit of tweaking it's done. Now to get the drawer slides, and build the drawers, after we decide how they'll look. And of course the upper cabinets doors still have to be made.

The sink cabinet with frame and supports

It fits like a glove.

Six base frames ready to go.

The last cabinet assembled.