Lee Schierer
07-18-2014, 9:29 PM
In my daughters new house, there is not enough counter space for food preparation and to have a microwave so my daughter and my wife came up with a combination cabinet idea that would give her additional pantry space, a place for the microwave and a broom closet. It started out looking like this based on a cabinet they found on the internet.293286
I designed the cabinet using sketchup so it looked like this:293287 It stands 77" tall, 47" wide and is 20 inches deep.
The cabinet looks like this:
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There is an adjustable shelf in the upper and another in the lower compartments. The main frame is 3/4" birch plywood with poplar used for the faces, face frames and doors.
She wanted it finished with the MinWax Transformations cabinet finish in the Kona color, which is a dark chocolate brown color. The left side door opens on the broom storage with a singe shelf for storing swiffer pads. I contacted MinWax about using the Transformations product on new wood. They recommended a shellac based primer. They also told me that the Furiture and Cabinet products are the same only the coverage amount changes from 50 sq ft to 100 sq ft for the Caabinet kit.
293288
The right side has shelves for use as a pantry. All the shelves are adjustable.
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The only real problem with the finish is that the final protective coat is a water based product that looks and acts like their water bade poly acrylic finish. Using it on the dark color, any bubbles or runs dry white in color and really show up against the dark background. Sanding tends to break through the color coat even though I applied two coats to show the gray primer under it. I did have the primer tinted, from the original white, but they could only add a small amount of tint which resulted in a light gray color.
I just delivered it today.
I designed the cabinet using sketchup so it looked like this:293287 It stands 77" tall, 47" wide and is 20 inches deep.
The cabinet looks like this:
293290
There is an adjustable shelf in the upper and another in the lower compartments. The main frame is 3/4" birch plywood with poplar used for the faces, face frames and doors.
She wanted it finished with the MinWax Transformations cabinet finish in the Kona color, which is a dark chocolate brown color. The left side door opens on the broom storage with a singe shelf for storing swiffer pads. I contacted MinWax about using the Transformations product on new wood. They recommended a shellac based primer. They also told me that the Furiture and Cabinet products are the same only the coverage amount changes from 50 sq ft to 100 sq ft for the Caabinet kit.
293288
The right side has shelves for use as a pantry. All the shelves are adjustable.
293289
The only real problem with the finish is that the final protective coat is a water based product that looks and acts like their water bade poly acrylic finish. Using it on the dark color, any bubbles or runs dry white in color and really show up against the dark background. Sanding tends to break through the color coat even though I applied two coats to show the gray primer under it. I did have the primer tinted, from the original white, but they could only add a small amount of tint which resulted in a light gray color.
I just delivered it today.