Chad's Kitchen

My turn to make lunch for the kids.  Drew approved, the girls, not so much.

Sellers Cabinet Finally Done!

About 5 or 6 months ago we picked up a beat down Sellers cabinet on the cheap. Well it was cheap for a reason. One drawer front was busted in half, a door was hanging by one hinge, it was about 13 different colors and was soaked in grease. This thing was well used and some things I just couldn't salvage. I replaced a few things because they were broke, and others because they were just soaked in grease.

Here's what it looked like before:

And after....  The white top on this is porcelain so it's not something I could just paint very easy.  Yes, that green strip is ugly.  I'll figure something out...

Another before picture:

The rest are pictures I took during the rehab.  I estimate that I have about 40 hours in this project.  Most of that time was spent stripping paint.

Here is the drawer front I had to replace.

And this drawer needed everything but the front.  I salvaged the front and built a new drawer.  

Primer

Part way stripped.

This took the most time.  The roll up cabinet has about 15 separate wood pieces.  I couldn't take this apart so I had to scrape in between all of them.  This alone was probably 3 hours of work.

Done.

Small fraction of the stripped paint.

Start of paint.

Start of assembly.

The new hinges I bought had a different offset.  See the gaps on the left side.  Had to fill holes, re-sand, re-paint....

Getting there...

My spray booth took a beating with this project.

Garage storage - done.... for now

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Wine bottle balancers

The other week I was cleaning up the beat up, nail-filled ends of some reclaimed lumber I picked up on craigslist.  I didn't want to trash even these small pieces so I decided to make a few wine bottle balancers that are very popular on Etsy.com, lazy woodworker sites (like mine), etc.  I decided why not.  I fired up the drill press and drilled a few holes. 

Well, Miranda doesn't like them so they won't be holding any wine at my house.  No biggy as they only took about 2 minutes to make.  Anyone want one?  Mom, will these sell at your craft sale?

 

Chop saw stand

We had some bedroom furniture in storage while we were in the rental.  Once moved I started unloading the unit and discovered that we had some water damage.  One of the dressers had a moldy, cracked top and some water damage on the back and bottom.  It's been sitting in the garage while we decided what to do with it.  In my quest to clean up the garage I chose to move it to my workshop as I could use the 'benchtop' space.  It actually works very well for both a tool stand and storage.  The drawers are great for storing and organizing those extra parts you never use that come with tools, like anything safety related.

Painted cabinet

I didn't make this piece but I did a heck of a job painting it.  It was spray painted and has 2 coats of water based poly on the top.  I would have never picked this color but I gotta admit it's kinda cool.  Now we just need to fill the rest of the office.

Let there be light

My shop really needed some more light.  The two single bulbs just weren't cutting it.  I stopped by Home Depot and got some of their least finest shop lights.  It has made a huge difference.