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My first real project after practicing my woodworking skills was to make dining room cabinets.
Took measurements of the width of the room and felt I could make six cabinets on the wall and six base cabinets. I decided to make four of the wall cabinets with glass doors. I made the boxes out of ¾” oak veneer plywood. Glued and screwed them together and then measured for rails and stiles. Did the same for the base cabinets. I then installed the wall cabinets and then the base cabinets. I like about 2 ¼” rails and stiles so to keep it looking in balance I decided to make one huge face frame. Installed the face frame and then measured for the doors. I like use ½” offset hinges to make measuring easier. Measure the opening and add one inch to the width and height.
The glass doors were another story. I had never made mullions before so it was quite a challenge. I rabitted the back of the glass doors and put the mullions in slots. When finished it was off to the glass store. I had the glass store make glass shelves for the cabinets that were going to have the glass doors since I wanted to put lights in those cabinets. I had no concept of price for the glass but I found out that not every shop wants to do that type of job. It was relatively expensive (especially the shelves) but it turned out pretty good.
Easy enough installing the doors. Then I installed concrete backer board on the base cabinets and for the back splash. After the tile work and grouting I was finally finished.
-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.






























17 comments so far
Cathy Krumrei
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posted 996 days ago
OH The pictures come in too small! From what I can see you really had a big project going!
Looks like your skills paid off. Congrats!
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Max
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posted 996 days ago
Fred,
They look very nice, they compliment the wood floor. Great work….
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Karson
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posted 996 days ago
Fred are the glass doors a single piece of glass or do you have multiple pieces in each door.
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Ethan
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posted 996 days ago
Fred,
I love the link from the Blog to the Project and vice versa! Nice writing touch.
The cabinets look great, too. What would you say your total time on the project was?
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Karson
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posted 996 days ago
That way you get to increase your count in both Blogs and in Projects. Dennis would love that. LOL
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dennis mitchell
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posted 996 days ago
I love it!
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Don
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posted 996 days ago
Fred, is there anyway you can upload larger photo’s?
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Todd A. Clippinger
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posted 996 days ago
I was wondering why the pix were so itty bitty.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 996 days ago
that is quite the project.
Very beautiful
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Mark A. DeCou
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posted 996 days ago
I’ve not seen “blow-up” photos that were smaller than the “thumbnails” before. Must be something in the computer coding that didn’t work right for you. Martin can help you with it. From what I can see, the work looks great.
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fred
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posted 995 days ago
Yahoo – I fixed the pictures.
The glass doors are not true divided light. There is one pane of glass in the doors.
I probably spent about 60 hours on this project.
Yeah, “blow-up” photos smaller than the “thumbnails”. I couldn’t have done that if I tried. But I went back and removed the photos and uploaded them again. It seemed to have worked.
-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
MsDebbieP
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posted 995 days ago
you made me chuckle—“couldn’t have done that if I tried” lol how many “mistakes” have we had, like that?? hehe
these are beautiful!!
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Diane
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posted 948 days ago
Wow, looks great, that’s some first project.
Diane
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fred
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posted 948 days ago
Thanks, Diane
-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
PanamaJack
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posted 948 days ago
Fred the cabinet work is great! Outstanding job here. Just did my own tile top, isn’t it fun? The finish on these cabinets really shine. Nice wine cabinet. (Make your own?) Wonderful work Fred!
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gizmodyne
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posted 948 days ago
Are the cabinets standard depth? I am interested in the wine storage. How did you build those brackets.
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fred
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posted 947 days ago
Panama Jack – I love doing tile work. I made a rolling cabinet type cart with a tile top that I can roll outside.
Giz – I decided on the depth of the upper and lower cabinets by measuring my kitchen cabinets that were made by a professional cabinet maker. So, I guess they are standard depth.
I used a bottle of wine to trace a basic shape for the wine holders. Then I measured the inside of the cabinets and made a template for the width. I transferred the shape to the template and cut it out. I then used the template to mark the holders, the jig saw to get near the line and a flush trim router bit to finish it. I used the same size for the front and back. The racks are 5 high in the cabinet. So the cabinet used 10. I have 3 cabinets for wine storage so I made 30. I still have the template.
The wine is blocked from the sun and to great temperature variations, so it works well. I don’t need temperature controlled wine cabinets.
-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.