Blogging has been a bit lacking lately due to the fact that I am moving. The journey has been a long one but it has been fun too!
The in-laws were looking to downsize and I was looking to upsize so they bought a new house and I bought their house. It was a win-win situation. That was in May.
My mother-in-law chose a lovely house and declared that it just needed a couple of new windows and some new flooring. I was elated! I would be in a new house by the end of summer! How wrong I was. Here it is October and I am still not in the house! Why am I not moved you ask? Well because the couple of windows turned into a gut it and remodel it fiasco.
The one good thing that has come out of this is that my father-in-law and I have had some really great times to bond as we built cabinets.
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| My father in law says always wear safety glasses! |
He is an expert cabinet maker (just ask me) and he has all the toys to prove it! I haven't cut, hammered, glued and nailed so much in my life! He says I am the son he always wanted...lol.
One of the things he introduced me to is the joy of using a
Kreg Jig. This sucker helps you drill pocket holes without guessing! With that little blue chunk of joy we could crank out well built and amazingly strong cabinets. It was so easy to use and I got so good at it that I was the sole Kreg jigger!
Don't have enough hands to hold the stuff you are building? Need a nice FLAT clamp to help as you put screws into a joint? Look no further than the
Kreg Face Clamps. When we were gluing and screwing together the frames this clamp was invaluable. Now you have to be a bit strong to use it because it does clamp tightly.
On the subject of glue and nails; I found that there is no such thing as too much glue or too many nails! I thought that just screwing or nailing was good enough to hold a cabinet together. Not so. It seems that the glue gives it that little something extra in the way of hold. Who knew?
The FIL likes
Titebond brand.
All in all we built kitchen cabinets, bathroom cabinets, a pantry and a laundry nook. There were many Texas hot summer days but in the end the results are spectacular! Pictures are below!
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| Kitchen cabinets pre-paint. |
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| Kitchen cabinets post paint. The drawer fronts and doors are not milled yet. |
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| Pantry with drawers. |
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| Bathroom vanity. |
We aren't done yet but we are about 98% so I should be in by November! : )
