Custom Kitchen Remodel
This project is currently underway and has at least two main phases, still in the first phase. Lots of learnings so far and plenty of mistakes made. Luckily, not a lot of waste!
Phase 1:
Goal: Replace kitchen island and cabinets alongside fridge/stove to create more useable workspaces and a whole lot more storage.
Constraints: soft close doors/drawers, inset beaded frace-frame cabinets (painted), dovetailed drawers, mahogany countertops
Phase 2 (still planning):
Goal: Replace cabinetry/backsplash in kitchen sink area to better utilize the space
Constraints: same as above, except likely a stone countertop and not painted cabinets (natural wood)
Required Tools
Table Saw, Jointer, Planer, Router, Miter Saw, Track Saw, Dovetail Jig, Domino Joiner, Drill, Impact Driver, Random Orbit Sander, many more.
New Skills Learned
Finishing with HVLP
Face frame construction
Countertop construction
Frames and fronts installed with new island lights
Frames and fronts installed
Everything dry fit, mostly.
Side panel of island dry fit in place
Needed to replace this section of tile as there was no tile under the old island.
Island base frame in place
Drawers fit into cabinets
Drawer boxes dry fit
Close up of dry-fit dovetail joint on drawers (routed not hand-cut).
All the raw wood for all the drawers to be made.
Face frame joint
Face frame components, how things fit together.
Face frame dry fit.
Island panel joint
Dominos for joining face frame to cabinet carcasses.
Strips of mahogany cut and laid for countertop
Island corner joinery/angles
Pantry cabinets being built
Close up of face frame joint
Reveal of face frame inside of cabinets at 1/16"
Some cabinet carcasses