Day: March 22, 2010

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Minor Touches Needed

I have just about finished the dishwasher cabinet!!!

What’s left are little finishing touches that require a trip to Home Depot. That is definitely going to be first thing tomorrow!

I put one of these bolts at the top and bottom of the dining room side; they seemed so perfect for securing the doors. They're not. :( I'll need to add a mechanism inside one of the doors to keep it from swinging and then the bolts should work.

I put one of these bolts at the top and bottom of the dining room side; they seemed so perfect for securing the doors. They’re not. 🙁 I’ll need to add a mechanism inside one of the doors to keep it from swinging and then the bolts should work.

Kitchen side door.

Kitchen side door.

I cut a piece of plywood to fill in the gap between the counter and the top of the door.

I cut a piece of plywood to fill in the gap between the counter and the top of the door.

Getting those screws in was a NIGHTMARE! The world is not made for people with stubby fingers.

Getting those screws in was a NIGHTMARE! The world is not made for people with stubby fingers.

The top looks horrible. :) I'm going to get some quarter round to make the edges along the countertop prettier. I think a bit more sanding and the eventual paint will make the rest of it look okay. I am however impressed with my jigsawing. :)

The top looks horrible. 🙂 I’m going to get some quarter round to make the edges along the countertop prettier. I think a bit more sanding and the eventual paint will make the rest of it look okay. I am however impressed with my jigsawing. 🙂

Because of the angled corner on the kitchen side, I won’t be able to use one of those sliding bolts to secure the door. I’ll have to re-examine the options at Home Depot.

The kitchen side definitely looks less polished than does the dining room side. The door jam isn’t quite as square, although I think I could remedy that by shifting the bottom hinge a tad which would shift the door to cover the slight gap. Considering how hard it was to get that hinge screwed in, I don’t have the strength to remove it and reposition it. 🙂

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A Puzzling Morning

This morning, I have been working on the kitchen side of the dishwasher cabinet. I made a bit more progress on the dining room side last night since I wanted to test something I bought at Home Depot. There’s more to do, but it’ll have to wait until my next Home Depot trip. I decided to postpone it till tomorrow since I have a dinner engagement this evening and will have to stop early.

The kitchen side is a real puzzle. I have been trying to figure out what I would do to make it look pretty since I temporarily set up the counter. I’ve decided that there is no 100% to achieve here and my aim now is to make it look ‘as non ugly as possible.’

The stove added a surprising level of difficulty and I have had to make a tough choice about which side the hinges will be on. I knew I’d have to account for it in determining the door clearance, but there was another challenge beyond that. I’ll follow up on that with pictures once this side is done.