I’m just about done with the ‘dining room side’ of the dishwasher cabinet! The missing trim is cut, but I need some square brackets to assemble the remaining projects, so I’ll definitely need to get myself to Home Depot tomorrow.

Behold the doors that ate up almost three hours today!

click on the picture to get a better view of the whole thing

Recognize the trim on them? I think this project explains for itself why I love scrounging for parts. I wouldn’t have been able to justify buying expensive trim like that just to ‘gussy up’ my doors. I am incredibly proud of them. I’ll make a door in a similar style for the other side.

Still missing on this side is a false front for the drawer that will mimic the trim work on the doors and hide the rough edges on that side of the unit.

The bottom panel has to remain accessible so I will be getting some magnets to hold it in place. There will be trim around it, but it will only be glued to the panel and not nailed into the cabinet.

I also need to decide how I’m going to fasten the doors. I bought some options yesterday, but I don’t think any of them will work, so I’ll need to see if I have any other choices. I don’t think magnets will be enough.

The door over the drawer doesn’t ‘match’ but this doesn’t bother me. Once everything is painted the same colour, it will all blend in together and the variety of textures will be welcome. Yes, that door overlaps the drawer. I couldn’t figure out a way to secure the drawer and the door just happened to be the right width while being too long so I thought that a well-secured door would also hold the drawer in place.

Today was a good renovation day and buoyed by my success I look forward to tackling the more difficult kitchen side tomorrow!

I am so far behind schedule that I’ll be lucky to finish the dishwasher cabinet this weekend, much less anything else. When I reveal the cause of today’s delay, all will be explained. Let’s just say that it has been one of those really good renovation days and that trim is a wonderful thing. I’m such a tease. 😀

Merikay asked about ‘the workshop’ and what tools I carry with me.

One of Croft‘s offers for this winter was his workshop and all its contents. It’s a small shed with a big window for good light that has a workbench. It’s a good place to spread out a small project so that I can walk all the way around it. He has all sorts of power tools and I’ve made use of the ones I don’t own or that are were too large to carry with me and sold when I hit the road, such as an angle grinder, a miter saw, and a table saw. I’ve been helping myself to the scrap pile and to screws and nails when I don’t have the necessary size in my own tool kit.

Otherwise, I have been using my own tools, just because I am most familiar with them. I took my full workshop on the road with me, except for my miter saw. I have saw horses, a jigsaw, a couple of drills, a square, a level, clamps and vices, wrenches and pliers, screwdrivers, a hammer, all sorts of hardware (screws, nails, hooks, nuts, bolts, etc.), and just about anything else one could need for basic home renovation projects. Everything but the saw horses fit in a big Rubbermaid tote in the basement. I also have smaller totes with painting and plumbing supplies. This would be a good time to note that when I was calculating what I could bring with me vs. carrying capacity I got all this stuff on the scale. 🙂

Lunch break’s over, time to go finish one side of the dishwasher cabinet!