The Kitchen at 404 Blackaby Street, part 1

very nice … very nice … very nice

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Super job, Tom! That was a major undertaking and you did an outstanding job of it. I’ll bet you’re glad to be coming down the home stretch on this.

Those leather panels are beautiful.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Great Thos. You and Carleen did a great job. She probably requested the dishwasher after you made her do dishes in a laundry sink for over a year.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

exelent job ! the sapele is so sweet . it has become real popular around my area in the past year. really exelent job thos.

Beautiful kitchen Thos!

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

Beautiful kitchen. Your wife has excellent taste, and she obviously knows how to get good work out of the hired help. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Very nice craftsmanship, a beautiful kitchen. Great looking.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Fantastic from floor to ceiling.

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

Good stuff. I like the inset doors.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Thanks Dennis, I appreciate your opinion.

-- Thos. Angle

Boy, Tom, those sure are some gorgeous cabinets! Love the leather tooling, too! Were you Stohlman’s protege? The tooling is as top-notch as the rest of the cabinets. It sure accents the rustic look!

God Bless,
Hawg

-- Saving barnwood from the scrapyards

The finished product was worth the wait. Love the leather panels.

-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!

it’s beautiful indeed. Sounds like quite the process to get it to this. Yikes.

I am envious of the counter space.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Marc, I never worked with Stohlman but one of my mentors, Dick Swanson was the last of the Miles City-Cogshall apprentices. He learned from Ken Griffin who put out books for Tandy before Stohlman. Ken worked at Miles City when Dick was in high school and at the time Carl Wilson owned it.( Wilson Boots) I worked for Dick at Wyoming Saddlery and at Swanson Saddlery both in Cody, Wyoming.

-- Thos. Angle

Looks like you nailed it! Great job.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Nice job Thom.
You earned your salt on that one.
Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Thanks, you built my dream kitchen. Next time do it at my house please. lol. Great job

-- All donations should be made out to me and in the form of wood or tools ~Chris

Sapele and leather. Doesn’t get much better than that. Looks to me like the shoemaker’s children are wearing two-tined wingtips!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Again Thomas just beautiful. I’ve worked on those old houses before and used to live in one that was over 100 yrs old. The studs in the wall ran from the peak of the house, about 30’ to the base floor. And none were set on center it seemed like they just put one here and there. LOL I know how frustrating it can be to work on them. mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Beautiful Cabinets with the inlays. Its amazing what you can run into, remodeling.
God bless

-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia

That is just amazing work! Leather and wood – WOW! What a match.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Thomas I’ve seen some very fine work here on LJ in the past 217 days – but I have not seen anything that I thought was any better than your kitchen re-do. The kitchen looks so comfortable and homey. I really like it. The leather carvings start bringing everything together, but Carleen’s dishwasher just sets the whole project off :-)). Absolutely beautiful kitchen.

You see Carleen, Willie Nelson (at least I think it was him) recorded the song “Mamma, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys” See how wrong he was. Good work Cowboy Thomas.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/