Y’all, this has been an extended highway, however the cupboards within the workplace space of my studio are nearly accomplished! There are nonetheless some ending touches that should be accomplished, however I can’t do these issues till different tasks are accomplished. I’ll clarify that later on this put up. However I’ve gotten these cupboards as completed as they are often for now.
Earlier than I present you, let’s return and keep in mind how these began out. I began with fundamental IKEA Sektion cupboards with Veddinge doorways and drawer fronts. After I put in the cupboard packing containers, they seemed like this…
And the Veddinge doorways and drawer fronts seemed like this…
And after including my customizations, the progress appears like this…
So let me clarify the obvious unfinished half — the lacking drawer fronts. These 4 drawer fronts are painted, gold foiled, and able to be connected. I had excessive hopes that I might get that accomplished, however the instruction guide displaying how one can assemble and fix these drawer fronts is buried someplace within the depths of my very messy studio.
I shortly looked for it this morning, however couldn’t discover it. So I attempted to search out it on-line with no success. I believed I might determine it out with out the instruction guide, however if you happen to’ve ever assembled IKEA Sektion cupboards with drawers, you already know that the brackets should be connected in a sure approach relying on the particular drawer association you’ve gotten to your specific cupboard.
I lastly discovered the small drawers with out the instruction guide, however not after making an attempt a minimum of six totally different (fallacious) methods of attaching the brackets. I lastly received it on in regards to the sixth or seventh try. And these little drawers solely use one sort of bracket.
The larger drawer fronts use two various kinds of brackets with most likely 16 totally different attainable configurations, so there was no approach I used to be going to attempt to guess. I do know I tucked that instruction guide away in a protected spot in order that I wouldn’t lose it. However now I can’t keep in mind the place that protected spot is. ? As quickly as I discover it (or discover the directions on-line), I’ll connect these final 4 drawer fronts.
I additionally nonetheless want to do that piece of trim on the ground on this one cupboard, however I can’t do this till the baseboard is put in, and I can’t set up the baseboard till that exterior door simply to the proper of those cupboards is trimmed out.
I even have a few faulty components, which shocked me. This cupboard door isn’t even put in correctly as a result of the a part of the hinge that attaches inside the cupboard is flawed. They’re all speculated to be three-way adjustable, however I can’t get that one to regulate in any respect, so it pulls the door down too low in order that it gained’t shut. I’ll have to get a substitute for that. I even have a drawer slide with a faulty mushy shut on it. The drawer gained’t shut until I push it closed all the way in which.
This space the place the cupboards meet the wall will want some small trim to cowl these cracks. I used to be tempted to make use of caulk to fill them, however with as a lot as our home strikes and shifts all year long, I feel the caulk would crack and should be refilled repeatedly. A small trim would look significantly better, however I can’t set up that till the countertop is put in.
So the cupboards are accomplished for essentially the most half. All the large stuff — including trim, portray, clear coating, including the gold accents, and many others. — are completed.
My subsequent step is to make the countertop, and I’ve to confess that I’m terrified. I’ve put this off so long as I can as a result of once I made the countertop on the opposite wall, the mud from these boards brought on such painful pores and skin issues for me that actually lasted for months. It was terrible. (I shared about it right here.)
In all of my 30+ years of DIYing, I had by no means skilled any sort of response to any product I’ve used, so I didn’t take any precautions to cowl my pores and skin earlier than operating the boards by means of my desk noticed. However this time, you higher imagine I’ll be masking myself head to toe, after which showering instantly after the entire items are minimize. The considered probably having to undergo that once more genuinely terrifies me.
Fortunately, it’s a small countertop and ought to be a comparatively fast venture. As soon as that’s accomplished, I can set up the window casing, add that little trim the place the cupboards meet the wall, after which end the sconces and get them put in. Oh! And I nonetheless want so as to add the cupboard door and drawer pulls! Cupboards want jewellery, too!
I’m so extremely excited to have the majority of this large venture completed. The remaining ought to be a breeze! And by the way in which, as quickly as I discover that instruction guide and get these final for drawer fronts on, I’ll add an image to this put up. I’m hoping that might be later at present! I simply want to recollect the place that spot is the place I tucked that instruction guide away for protected holding. ?
UPDATE! I discovered it! About ten seconds after I hit the “publish” button on this put up, I remembered the place I put that instruction guide, so listed here are the cupboards with the remainder of the drawer fronts connected.
I can’t wait to get this space completed!! It’s been a very long time coming, and I’m so excited to lastly see it turn out to be actuality.
FYI, the reflections on the gold accents generally trigger an optical phantasm the place it appears just like the trim is curved. That’s one thing that solely occurs in photos. In particular person, there isn’t a such optical phantasm. However relaxation assured, the entire trim and gold foil accents are completely straight on my cupboards, and none of my cupboard doorways or drawers are bowed. ?
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to be taught extra about me right here.
