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Well.. my mom needed a set of cheap kitchen cabinets for her house. She wanted cheap.. so.. I did white painted MDF Cabinets. What a pain.. the cabinets are frame and panel MDF, painted with White Laquer. Still needs a few finishing touches. This was my first kitchen, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to do hers before I did mine.. learned A LOT!!!

The cabinets are european framless cabinets, I used 3/4” white melamine with a full back (3/4”) I used european cup hinges (120 degree full overlay.) the drawers are all 1/2” Baltic Birch mounted on full extention drawer slides. I used leg levelers on all of the base cabinets as the floor drops 3 inches from one end to the other!!! I installed a Wire Lazy Susan in the bottom corner cabinet, and a tip out in front of the sink.

The biggest challenge was the 5 full size pantry cabinets, they are 18” deep. I think by far this was most of the work in building the full kitchen. My mom needed the extra cabinets, as she has no closets etc (the house is only 900 sq ft so they were a neccesity.

Another fun part of the kitchen, if you can see in the original picture, the box beside the fridge is covering a furnace duct that is going into the floor. I had to make a “cut out” drawer (similar to an L shape) in the bottom drawer left of the stove.

-- If only there was a way to combine Computers, Hockey and Woodworking.........


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sidestepmcgee

33 posts in 59 days


posted 55 days ago

looks good, mdf isnt half bad for the wallet.just did the same for my parents . i like the tall pantry doors

-- eric post, tallahassee FL

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vwmike99

5 posts in 55 days


posted 55 days ago

Nice! I want to do some cabinet work in my bonus room out of MDF. How was working with the MDF?

-- California scares me - so I'll just stay in the garage and build something!

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GaryK

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posted 55 days ago

Looks great! How do you think the screws in the hinges will stand up to use in the MDF?

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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rikkor

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posted 55 days ago

Well, they look good. The pulls are interesting.

-- Maplewood, MN

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Scott Bryan

6462 posts in 156 days


posted 54 days ago

Hi Phred,

This is a nice looking project. It certainly brightens up the kitchen and I am sure it made your mother happy to get the remodel.

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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TaterSalad

29 posts in 480 days


posted 54 days ago

They may be cheap MDF cabinets, but they look a he** of a lot nice than what was there. Good work!

-- Kalamazoo, MI

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ND2ELK

1351 posts in 108 days


posted 54 days ago

Very nicely done. Your mom should be very happy with her new kitchen.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

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SPalm

572 posts in 216 days


posted 54 days ago

Good job, It looks really nice. (Great way to perfect your skills also)
What type of hinges did you use?
Maybe you could explain more what you learned, to share with others.

Welcome to LJs,
Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

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CharlieM1958

3024 posts in 552 days


posted 54 days ago

These really came out very nice looking. Huge improvement over the old kitchen.

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

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Bill Butler

72 posts in 97 days


posted 49 days ago

You should have your own show on HGTV. Definitely a stunning reveal, regardless of how “on-the-cheap” you may think it was done.

Bill.

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