For the past few weeks my dad and I have been working on building a new cabinet for the space next to the kitchen pantry cupboards.
As you may recall, there used to be a desk that occupied this space here:
To make the space more functional we removed the desk and decided to build a cabinet. In the meantime we put a little table there to fill the space:
To start off the process of building a new cabinet I drew a rough sketch of what the cabinet should look like, and we measured the space and our existing cabinets to get an idea of the new cabinet’s dimensions.
My dad used some oak plywood we already had in the garage to construct the cabinet and he bought oak trim pieces for the face of the cabinet.
Once the cabinet base was constructed we had a local cabinet maker construct the doors for us to match our existing cabinet doors.
I put a couple coats of polycrylic on the shelf and the other surfaces inside the cabinet.
For the cabinet exterior and doors, I painted a coat of primer and two coats of the white cabinet paint just like I did here.
When everything dried we installed the doors and drawer fronts and put the cabinet in place, attaching it to a stud in the wall with a couple of screws.
You may have noticed the cabinet has no countertop…. that’s coming soon!
