{"id":23316,"date":"2010-03-31T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2016-09-13T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T19:47:24","slug":"comfort-closure-and-cutting-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/comfort-closure-and-cutting-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort, Closure, and Cutting Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comfort<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Any sunny spot will do for a cat!<\/p><\/div>\n

Closure<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was at my wit’s end trying to figure out how I was going to get my cabinets to latch shut. My overhead cabinets don’t have any catches, so they couldn’t serve as inspiration. I checked the dressing room and kitchen cabinets and, lo and behold, I found a discrepancy. One of the original closures broke and was replaced by something else. I knew this something else would have to work for my new cabinets, too. So, off I went to Home Depot with a picture and I actually found the same thing!<\/p>\n

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Super cheap, too, less than a buck fifty each!<\/p>\n

I installed them in all my new cabinets except the over fridge one. The side of the cabinet isn’t thick enough for one of these, so I’ll have to add a spacer. *sighs*<\/p>\n

Here’s how they look in that cabinet over the drawer.<\/p>\n

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(Yes, there is something in there now, pillows. They won’t be staying there long; I just want space to manoeuvre in the study.)<\/p>\n

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I will get around to putting the pulls on one day; I’m just nervous about making holes in my pretty doors. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Cutting Corners<\/strong><\/p>\n

I bought an 8′ long section of trim so that I could make some practice cuts and get an idea of how much it would cost to do the whole rig.<\/p>\n

My dad used to love cutting trim, it was like a puzzle for him. The first time I attempted to cut the stuff I was on the phone for ages with him getting tips. We thought the same way and he could verbally explain things to me better than I could understand with a diagram. I wish dad could have been available for a consult today!<\/p>\n

I decided to do the bit around the sink to the kitchen-side cabinet edge. First step, make sure the gap between the wall and the floor isn’t more than three quarters of an inch, the width of the trim:<\/p>\n

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Okay, slight problem. From the edge of the vertical trim to the flooring is three quarters of an inch, but from the wall to the flooring is a full inch.<\/p>\n

A couple of minutes later:<\/p>\n

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yay for scraps!<\/p><\/div>\n

I then tried to take measurements and got super daunted. I decided to start from the opposite end of the project, where I would have a flat edge.<\/p>\n

A half hour and three feet of trim later I got this far:<\/p>\n

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Fourteen and seven eights inches of trim in, eighty billion to go. At this rate, trim is going to cost me several thousand dollars and take a couple of years to install. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

I’m only jesting. One of dad’s tricks was to cut four scraps of pieces with the four cuts I would need and to use that to line up the saw and trim. It’s an excellent tip that works. I just had a lot of wastage and lack of progress since I had to learn a new saw. I’ll continue with the trim next weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comfort Closure I was at my wit’s end trying to figure out how I was going to get my cabinets to latch shut. My overhead cabinets don’t have any catches, so they couldn’t serve as inspiration. I checked the dressing room and kitchen cabinets and, lo and behold, I found a discrepancy. One of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,6,635,5,3],"tags":[1447],"class_list":["post-23316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","tag-cats-in-an-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}