The kitchen remodel that starts in a bedroom

[skyking]

This is really a kitchen remodel, but it starts in what was my office.
We tore out the closet in that guest room to build a murphy bed/closet combination across one wall. We picked out a flooring color in Vinyl Composite Tile (VCT), the same commercial stuff you see in schools and hospitals. We will use the same flooring in the next room we do, and it will have rolling chairs in there. VCT is tough and can be cleaned up and waxed for many years. The flooring was a couple weeks out so I started building the murphy wall.

These are the closet units that form each side of the murphy bed. They are 89" high, and about 24" by 24". The bottom is a big shoe drawer, and the top two spaces are behind one door.
We have an armoire in the living room that my wife had built in 1985. It will be moved to that room, so I decided to copy it for the built ins. It is red oak, and has a simple slab door design with 3/16" by 2" applied to the face of the door to resemble a standard shaker door construction. It was fast and easy.. I will take more pics as they are just about done now.
I picked up the flooring yesterday and got started today. I had already put down ironply subflooring to match the rest of the floor height.
I snapped a line and "set the beam". This is the first two rows of tile, and must be set straight and left to dry a while. (This is according to the pros, this is my first go at VCT )

Taking that much needed break now to let things set up.

 

[pete6032]

What's wrong with the ATOT smiling emoticon?

 

[skyking]

What's wrong with the ATOT smiling emoticon?

I fixed it for you.

 

[DrPizza]

Looking nice!

 

[skyking]

Thanks Doc.

This is as far as I got tonight. The mind is willing, the body not so much. Hats off to any professional flooring guys out there.

I can step across tomorrow after it sets up tonight, and finish it out.

 

[skyking]

The floor is done, and I had the face frames on the cabinets before. today I installed the drawer slides, and knocked together some big shoe drawers from 7/16" oak veneer plywood. I dadoed the bottom into the sides and glued/stapled/clamped it together. Tomorrow I will glue on a solid top edge, install them on the slides and mount up the finished drawer fronts. I will pre-hang the doors then take it all off to help with moving them into the house.

 

[skyking]

I ripped some little oak strips to cover the edge grain on the drawer boxes

Drawers, doors, and drawer faces fitted

Then removed so the boxes were easier to move in.

Bolt one to the wall, shim the other for 64" spacing, add top board and headboard, veneer on the wall and then build the bed up.

 

[skyking]

We got the 1/4" oak veneer plywood finished and installed, the headboard, and the top board.

My friend is inside the bed while we hang it initially. The bed mechanism is not really designed for installation in that recess. It works great but the assembly bolts are hard to get at. The Jack Russell can hear him in there and is quite concerned

Working on edge trims, toe kicks, a top trim to set off the closets, trim inside the open box at the sides and top board. I will take some final photos with a real camera

 

[skyking]

Got it done today.
This was the cabinet that I copied for the details. It will move into that room.

Wall of oak. It looked wrong without the crown molding detail. I waited till I was sure it would not interfere with the bed motion.

I trimmed the inside of the open box with quarter round.

Next up, the old guest room becomes a sewing and crafts room. I will cut a 48" doorway into the main room so it will not be isolated.

 

[skyking]

Update: We cut a 4' doorway into the front "former guest bedroom" and hung a barn door inside it. Now all the quilting materials and desk live in there.
Emptied the master closet and took down two walls to move them. I should have the walls back in and sheet rocked and paneled today. I will build custom shelves and rods in there tomorrow and move back into the closet.
I made the barn door from a pair of 24" 6 panel slabs I biscuit joined together and added an oak strip top and bottom, lots of glue and clamps.

We got the walls moved and sheet rocked today.

 

[skyking]

The 8" wall move left a niche 29" wide. I put 7 shoes shelves in there.

Shelves are 3/4 poplar cabinet ply with oak edges/stiffeners.

 

[skyking]

finally getting to the kitchen!
I design the cabinets and order the doors from a local shop. I don't have the tooling to make as nice a doors as they do. It would take more time than it is worth. They also sell me the wood for the face frames, sanded 2 sides and one edge true (S2S straightined) It is sanded to 13/16ths and all I have to do is clean up the saw marks when I rip it down. I try to use a planer for that if the wood allows.

This is the corner cabinet under construction.

The inside face frame is installed in this picture, and we are clamping on the edge piece miter joint with 28 clamps and many choice words.

Standing up in the kitchen.

Behind it is a 10" floor to ceiling filler cabinet.




The bridge cabinet that goes over the fridge.

Filler cabinet is screwed to the wall in 4 places, and initial assembly with some cleats under the bridge and some clamps.

Cabinets are screwed together at the face frames with countersunk screws. Then I cut some tapered plugs and hammered them in the countersinks with a little glue.

Cut the plugs off with a sharp chisel,

 

[Greenman]

Nice work. Have you been building cabinets for long? Looking at approach and the near finished product, I'd guess a few years at least.

 

[skyking]

Thank you.
This is my first kitchen set. I built those closets and murphy bed up the thread, and then built a pantry for a friend for practice.
Two years ago I built my bathroom cabinets, so I have been hobby woodworking for a few years.
I did the same deal there, had the local shop build the cherry shaker doors for me.
The cabs I did as a craftsman style built in. Big 1 piece face frames, etc.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Nice work!

 

[skyking]

Thanks. I already found a problem with the cabinet doors over the refrigerator. I had not allowed enough for the sloping ceiling, and will have to trim the doors a bit and add some face frame to the top of the openings. I have to laugh about it. That same face frame was the first one I made, a very simple piece that I made a 1" error on
I had to cut it in the table saw, and add it back on the inside. If you look closely at the dowel pics you can see where I added wood to the inside. Now I get to patch in the top.
I think it is better to concentrate all my oopsies in one place

 

[highland145]

Biscuits to hold the face frame together and to attach the frame to the cabinet?

 

[skyking]

Kreg pocket screws FtW!

 

[highland145]

Kreg pocket screws FtW!

I see that now to hold the frame in. Did you use those on the frame itself? I think I remember kreg pocket screw dowels.

 

[skyking]

pocket screws everywhere. I put about 10 finish nails total on that corner cabinet. All of them are behind the door edges and color match puttied in anyway.
Doors are on, and new fridge is in the doghouse.

 

[skyking]

The next parts in line are a 3 piece pantry, two upper big boxes on a drawer bottom.

Upper cabinets are hung, with new range hood. It is a Zephyr 850 CFM model, exiting out the wall.

you can put it on high, and go outside and shoot a storm commercial in the breeze

Doors are three weeks out. I figured out the rest of the order so I can get to building.

 

[CraKaJaX]

This is awesome. Great work being done here! I'm interested to see the final product. Have you done this in the past? If not, it's a damn good job...

 

[skyking]

I've done our bathroom and the murphy wall above. I think the final pics are a month out, waiting on a custom copper sink, which holds up the granite, etc. Doors are out three weeks too.

 

[SAWYER]

amazing, you have some skills

 

[skyking]

Thanks guys. I will return in a few weeks with more pictures.