Sam Shank
12-21-2006, 11:49 AM
It started about a year ago. I ripped out the 12" white tile, and added in the 4" maple flooring. Had to stitch it into the 4" in the adjacent open family room and butt it up to the adjacent wide doorway dining room.
I must have measured right the first time when I laid the floors in the other 2 rooms 3 years ago. Cherry in the living room, and the maple in the family room. Everything lined up perfectly parallel and perpendicular. NICE!
I kept some existing cabinets and refaced them. In hindsight, I wish I would have built new cabinets except for the corner lazy susan. The sink needed a new cabinet to accomodate a larger stone composite sink (I HIGHLY recommend these. VERY NICE.) and I had to shorten another cabinet flanking the dishwasher proportionately.
The fooring is maple, the cabs are cherry. Top coated with 3-4 coats of USL sprayed on, a sealcoat of oxford waterbased shellac, and stained with minwax gel stain color 'antique maple'. I know I know. Stain on cherry. I don't like stains in general, either, but it looks good. I'll snap a shot of the cherry flooring that has aged very nicely sometime in the future.
I used oil rubbed bronze knobs and pulls, and all hinges are Blum, as are the slides (except for on the really narrow drawer next to the dishwasher.) I really really like the blumotion. The slides weren't too bad to retroactively install. Is there anything more annoying than that, though? So many trips up and down the basement steps to make minute adjustments to the slide framing...
Now for the photos... And remember it's only 1/2 done. I still have the uppers to do (I'm off all next week. I know what I'll be doing.) The old cabinets were original to the house, and the house was built in 1985. They are solid oak faces, with kerfs cut into the oak doors. They're old and ugly and had to go.
I must have measured right the first time when I laid the floors in the other 2 rooms 3 years ago. Cherry in the living room, and the maple in the family room. Everything lined up perfectly parallel and perpendicular. NICE!
I kept some existing cabinets and refaced them. In hindsight, I wish I would have built new cabinets except for the corner lazy susan. The sink needed a new cabinet to accomodate a larger stone composite sink (I HIGHLY recommend these. VERY NICE.) and I had to shorten another cabinet flanking the dishwasher proportionately.
The fooring is maple, the cabs are cherry. Top coated with 3-4 coats of USL sprayed on, a sealcoat of oxford waterbased shellac, and stained with minwax gel stain color 'antique maple'. I know I know. Stain on cherry. I don't like stains in general, either, but it looks good. I'll snap a shot of the cherry flooring that has aged very nicely sometime in the future.
I used oil rubbed bronze knobs and pulls, and all hinges are Blum, as are the slides (except for on the really narrow drawer next to the dishwasher.) I really really like the blumotion. The slides weren't too bad to retroactively install. Is there anything more annoying than that, though? So many trips up and down the basement steps to make minute adjustments to the slide framing...
Now for the photos... And remember it's only 1/2 done. I still have the uppers to do (I'm off all next week. I know what I'll be doing.) The old cabinets were original to the house, and the house was built in 1985. They are solid oak faces, with kerfs cut into the oak doors. They're old and ugly and had to go.