Y’all, this has been a protracted highway, however the cupboards within the workplace space of my studio are nearly performed! There are nonetheless some ending touches that have to be performed, however I can’t do these issues till different initiatives are performed. I’ll clarify that later on this submit. However I’ve gotten these cupboards as completed as they are often for now.
Earlier than I present you, let’s return and bear 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 seems to be 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 hooked up. I had excessive hopes that I might get that performed, however the instruction handbook exhibiting how you can assemble and connect 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 assumed I might determine it out with out the instruction handbook, however when you’ve ever assembled IKEA Sektion cupboards with drawers, you recognize that the brackets need to be hooked up in a sure method relying on the precise drawer association you have got to your specific cupboard.
I lastly found out the small drawers with out the instruction handbook, however not after attempting no less than six totally different (incorrect) methods of attaching the brackets. I lastly acquired it on concerning the sixth or seventh try. And these little drawers solely use one form of bracket.
The larger drawer fronts use two various kinds of brackets with most likely 16 totally different attainable configurations, so there was no method I used to be going to attempt to guess. I do know I tucked that instruction handbook away in a secure spot in order that I wouldn’t lose it. However now I can’t bear in mind the place that secure 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 flooring 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 suitable of those cupboards is trimmed out.
I even have a few faulty elements, 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 imagined 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 received’t shut. I’ll must get a substitute for that. I even have a drawer slide with a faulty mushy shut on it. The drawer received’t shut except I push it closed all the best way.
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 need to be refilled commonly. A small trim would look a lot better, however I can’t set up that till the countertop is put in.
So the cupboards are performed for probably the most half. The entire large stuff — including trim, portray, clear coating, including the gold accents, and so on. — 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 triggered such painful pores and skin issues for me that actually lasted for months. It was terrible. (I shared about it here.)
In all of my 30+ years of DIYing, I had by no means skilled any form 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 my desk noticed. However this time, you higher consider I’ll be masking myself head to toe, after which showering immediately after the entire items are reduce. The considered probably having to undergo that once more genuinely terrifies me.
Fortunately, it’s a small countertop and must be a comparatively fast undertaking. As soon as that’s performed, 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 huge undertaking completed. The remainder must be a breeze! And by the best way, as quickly as I discover that instruction handbook and get these final for drawer fronts on, I’ll add an image to this submit. I’m hoping that will likely be later at present! I simply want to recollect the place that spot is the place I tucked that instruction handbook away for secure conserving. 😀
UPDATE! I discovered it! About ten seconds after I hit the “publish” button on this submit, I remembered the place I put that instruction handbook, so listed below are the cupboards with the remainder of the drawer fronts hooked up.
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 change into actuality.
FYI, the reflections on the gold accents generally trigger an optical phantasm the place it seems to be just like the trim is curved. That’s one thing that solely occurs in photos. In particular person, there is no such thing as 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 rework and beautify 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 can learn more about me here.
