The Before Shot The After Shot All of the remaining details were finished on Thursday. The remaining door was mounted, the hardware was attached, the half walls on either side of the upper fireplace stonework were installed, as were the two upper horizontal trim pieces and the far right vertical column, and the fabric frames [...]
The happy day had arrived! The day to finally install the entertainment center. It is always fun to see the end of a project in sight, no matter how hard or easy it was along the way. Built-ins still cause me quite a bit of stress! I have not yet installed enough of them for [...]
The installation date was quickly approaching so it was time to clamp on the trim, screw on the hinges, and dry fit the door panels. But before that could happen I had a last minute change to deal with. The clients had been following their projects progress on the blog and noticed something that was [...]
With the cabinets finished and built, it was time to turn our attention towards the door panels. Each box had to raised panel doors on the bottom and to fabric paneled doors above. Things were pretty straight forward. I needed 16 stiles (vertical pieces) at two different lengths and 16 rails (horizontal pieces) all the [...]
With each of the four boxes all built, laid out, and adjusted, it was time to trim out all of the shelves and sand all the parts. I milled up a trim piece for all the shelves, and glued and nailed them on with 23 gauge pin nails and clamped them for good measure. While [...]
After dismantling the table, it was time for some staining. Here is the top after a coat of custom mixed stain. Here is one of the legs after being stained and having one coat of tung oil rubbed on. Here I am rubbing in the second and final coat of tung oil onto the table [...]
The legs of the table were going to be connected to two giant stringers that would be bolted to the underside of the table. Below are the four boards that make up the two stringers. One board is 44″ long, 5″ wide, and 1.5″ thick, while the smaller one is 40″ long, 3″ wide, and [...]