Adjusting Window Trim Round A Excessive Countertop + My Studio Workplace Space Cupboards Coming Collectively

Earlier than I may set up the window sill, I needed to put a number of spacers and nail them to the underside framing of the window in order that the window sill would have one thing to take a seat on that was degree with the countertop. I lower these out of two×2 lumber, and so they wanted to be about 3/4-inch excessive. I simply nailed these into the tough 2×4 framing utilizing 2-inch 16-gauge nails.

After which I put the window sill straight onto these spacers and the countertop, which have been degree with one another, and nailed it into every one of many spacers, after which nailed it straight onto the countertop on every finish and within the center.

As soon as the window sill was in place, I may observe with the remainder of the trim. The home windows within the studio had already been trimmed out, and the trim needed to be eliminated earlier than I built the countertop. So I didn’t have to start out from scratch. If you wish to see how I trim out all of my home windows and doorways from starting to finish, you can see that process here. However for these, the window sill was already lower and the header casing was already put collectively. All I needed to do was lower down the facet jambs and the facet casings a bit to suit the brand new top of the window sill, and the remaining was a breeze.

So for those who examine the present trimmed home windows to the home windows earlier than the cupboards have been put in and the countertop was constructed, you may see that I needed to sacrifice the aprons on the backside of every window.

I did the identical factor when I built the cabinet underneath the window in our master bathroom and determined that I needed that cupboard to be larger than the self-importance counter tops and likewise needed to realize these few inches of drawer top on the cupboard.

I’ve by no means missed the apron on that window in our lavatory, and I received’t miss the aprons on the home windows within the studio, both.

I imply, can all of us simply respect how lengthy I’ve been ready and planning this? Once more, take a peek on the date on this drawing.

Sure. Sure, that does say 2017. Six years, y’all! I’ve been planning and dreaming about this for six years! I really feel like issues work out in the proper timing, although. Had I been in a position to do the cupboards six years in the past, I might have ended up with 30-inch-high counter tops, which I’ve found wouldn’t have been practically as helpful to me, and I might have ended up with an entire lot much less storage than I’m going to have now. So the design has been tweaked in excellent methods, that means that every one of this was in all probability effectively definitely worth the wait.

And even simply inside the previous couple of days, the design has been tweaked once more. A number of of you have been confused with my description of the modifications, so now you may really see them.

Earlier than placing the remainder of the cupboards in place on this wall, I first needed to take away the half-finished countertop that I had began. I had initially deliberate for the countertop to span your entire width of the bottom cupboards.

As soon as that was eliminated, I used to be again up to now with simply the bottom cupboards.

After I put in these decrease cupboards, I did so utilizing spacers behind the cupboards in order that the bottom cupboards would stand out a number of inches additional than the higher cupboards, with the uppers and lowers separated by a countertop.

The subsequent sections to go in place have been the 20-inch-high drawer sections. These will comprise two drawers.

If I had to do that yet again, and I knew I used to be going to do that specific design from the start, I might have ordered wall cupboards to make use of because the decrease cupboards as an alternative of ordering base cupboards. The bottom cupboards have these metallic rails with screw holes in them which might be used to screw the countertop to the bottom cupboard.

Had I ordered a wall cupboard as an alternative, it will have include a stable piece for the highest as an alternative of these rails. But it surely’s fantastic, and it’s carried out. I simply used the screw holes in these rails to screw the underside cupboard to this new cupboard utilizing 1/2-inch screws as an alternative of the screws that include the cupboards to screw cupboards collectively. (The screws that include IKEA cupboards to screw the cupboards collectively are longer and meant to undergo two 3/4-inch panels.)

Subsequent up, I wanted to assemble the 36″ x 40″ cupboard and put it into place. Working on my own makes this stuff difficult typically, and I needed to give you a strategy to stack that cupboard on prime of the others on my own. I knew that if I put the cupboard collectively on the ground, like I did all the remainder of the cupboards, there could be completely no manner I may hoist that cupboard up there on my own. It’s not too terribly heavy, however it’s not gentle, both, and it’s very cumbersome.

So I positioned one of many items of MDF that was initially used for the bottom of the countertop again onto the decrease cupboards as a short lived countertop, and I assembled the cupboard up there as an alternative of on the ground. It wasn’t fairly simple placing such a big cupboard collectively on such a small house, however I managed. That manner, reasonably than attempting to raise the assembled cupboard all the best way from the ground to the highest house, I simply needed to lean the cupboard over, and standing on the ladder, pull the cupboard up and over simply 20 inches in order that it was sitting on prime of the brand new 20-inch-high cupboard.

My first try wasn’t profitable. As I used to be attempting to tip the cupboard into place, it obtained wedged underneath the sloped ceiling. 😀 And after I say it was wedged in there, I imply it was wedged in there. I used to be starting to suppose I’d should name somebody to assist me get it unwedged.

However I lastly managed to get it unwedged alone, and get it screwed to the cupboard beneath it. After which I repeated that entire course of on the opposite facet, and ended up with this…

So my drawing is lastly coming to life, and you may see how this space will form up. The 2 outdoors decrease cupboards can have doorways, the brief sections above these can be drawers, and the highest sections can have doorways. After which the 2 decrease sections beneath the window can be drawers.

These cupboards would require a ton of trim to complete them, together with crown molding across the prime.

And now you may actually see what I meant in regards to the countertop in my earlier publish. As an alternative of the countertop spanning your entire width of the decrease cupboards, it should solely go in between the 2 tall towers of cupboards within the house indicated by the road/arrows beneath.

As soon as I get the countertop in, I can trim out this window in the identical manner I did the opposite two. This new, a lot narrower countertop would require one much less full laminate flooring board than the unique design, and I used to be one board brief on ending the countertop on the mural wall. So all of it works out completely.

So now I’ve these areas between the wall and the higher cupboards.

That is so thrilling to see this come collectively in any case of this time. And I’m totally having fun with the journey as effectively.