Kitchen Refurb - Stage 2

So with the Australia Day long weekend upon us the time had come to commence Stage 2 of the kitchen renovation, ( I’m still not sure how many stages there will be but I could be quite a few), Remove and replace the old wall oven.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The oven came out with relative ease and once I was able to get a mate around to disconnect the gas supply I was then able to remove the cupboard unit as a whole.

To reshape the cupboard I have extended the lower draw unit up to the underside of the existing bench height, retained the panel that encased the fridge, cut the depth of the overhead cupboard down to match the existing overhead on the left hand side and then added an open shelf to match the height of the cupboard while not needing to make new doors.

 

 

I have temporarily covered the bench to with some off cuts to bring it up the same height as the rest of the benches while we decide on what to change them to.

 

Still need to make the new draw and the draw front, we have decided to paint all the cupboard units and the doors so that will make matching the doors easier.  The tiles will also have to be replaced and extended across the new cupboard so as I said before this could be a long drawn out project.  

Previous Project - Shoe Box

I know that I have always had a pretty full house, 4 kids plus in-laws for most of the time, but I swear that there must be a couple of centipedes living here as well. The number of shoes that seem to gather around the front door at my place was ridiculous.

I also needed some where to hang a couple of coats and hats, somewhere to leave my keys and wallet so I could find them again, somewhere to sit while I put my shoes on and some way of seeing if my hair was OK before I walked out the door (not that I have that much hair to worry about).

So this was the answer.

 



The unit is 1.9m high, 1.6m wide and the box is 400mm wide and 450mm deep. It is constructed from Radiata Pine using the rail and style method. 

 

70 x 35 for the Frame, Lining boards to fill in the panels, 120 x 19 for the shelf, a few 190 x 19 for the Box lids and ply for the box base.

 

From memory I gave it 3 coats of Shellac and then a couple of coats of Polyurethane to finish it.

 

After a few years know the unit is working well although I am still trying to train certain people to put their shoes in it.

 

 



Previous Project - Book Ends

I really hate wasting timber and I am always looking for small jobs where I can use all the small off-cuts that I end up with from the larger projects.

When my number 1 son asked for a set of bookends that looked like a house that had been cut in half I had the perfect opportunity to use some.














As you can see it is made from of cuts of Hardwood fence palings that I had laying around the workshop just cut to shape and glued together. The roofs lift off so they can be used as a storage box as well.

Best of all it didn't take a lot of time and the kids were able to help with the glue up and the finishing.

Previous Project - Wall Unit

Lounge room at my place has a wall angled at about 30 degrees. This makes it a real difficult room to put furniture in. There is also large windows on both ends. To fix this I decided to build a wall unit to fit into this area and have a go at making some raised panel door as well.

What to make it from, well I still had a stack of fence palings in the yard so what else.


Needless to say there was a hell of a lot of gluing to form the panels and I had to buy a set of Panel clamps to help keep them flat. I also had to buy a set of Raise Panel bit to cut the styles and rails of the doors and drawers.

The far right hand draw in the photo is only the front due to the angle of the wall.

The carcass of the unit is constructed from 16mm MDF with a 20mm hardwood edge strip on the face. For the top I riped the palings in half and then glued them together on edge to give me a 30mm thick top.






I had to make the top in 2 halves so I could run the finished glue up through the thicknesser. I then bisculted the 2 halves together and router in some stiffener at 90 degrees to the paling to hold it all together.



 






 I then had to fill in the gap behind this unit so a constructed a full height cupboard with 4 drawers for DVDs etc and storage, made up a 6 panel screen for behind the TV and also an open set of shelves for above the TV.

I can't remember how long this project took in total, I am pretty sure that it was during this project that i had to get another fence which I found on "Gumtree". However as you can see in the photos it was finished for Christmas a few years back and it squares up the lounge room and holds hundreds of DVDs, games to keep them out of site.

Previous Projects - Outdoor Setting

This is the project that started it all for me, I had just replaced my old hardwood paling fence because it was falling into the park next door and I had a heap of wood to get rid of ( the fence is 45m long). I knew that the palings, rails and posts would dress up great so I purchsed a cheap Ryobi thicknesser ($430) and set to work.

The Thicknesser is still going strong 4 years latter and while I don't use every week when I do us it it gets a fair workout as I usually clean up about 50 - 100 palings at a time depending on the projects that I have in mind. However if you keep the the blades sharp and don't try to take to much off a a time it works well.

The table is based on a smaller version which I saw on The New Yankee Workshop however this one is 2.5m in length and the top is 1.2m wide. The table is a combination of

                          The Table,                     seat and                   a storage box.

It takes 2 people to tilt the table top into it's alternative position.

I originally built 8 chairs for the table however I found that 8 still wouldn't go around it so i had to make another 2. Each chair is held together with 26 mortice and tenon joints and Titebond 3 glue, no mechanical fasteners were used. The chairs can stack up in piles of 4 to help save some room in the yard.

 This project is now 4 years old and still going strong. I have reapplied the decking order a couple of times and have recently had to fix a bit of a bow in the table but it is still functioning well.

Knife Block

For Christmas "She who must be obeyed" got a set of knives which have turned out to be pretty good. This means that they are always being used and needed a place to live. So a Knife block was called for.

Pretty simple really although I did have 2 goes at it.

It is made from one of my old hardwood fence palings and a few pine scraps.

After cutting the 5 hardwood sections a bit longer than required, I marked out the size and shape of the individual knives and their covers on 4 of the sections. I then glued the pine around those marks letting it overhang the hardwood. Once they dried I glued the 5 section together. Again once they dried I then planed and cut the block to finish size and gave it 4 coats of polyurethane. The covers were then inserted into the block so the colour can indicate where each block should go.

Cast Iron Outdoor Chair

Finished fixing up the old out door seat yesterday.

A coat of Paint on the cast iron and the old fence palings with 3 coats of exterior polyurethane for the timber

Kitchen Refurb - Step 1

Have spent the last few days rearranging the kitchen to fit in the oven that "She who must be obeyed" brought of EBay. I had to pull out the old cooktop and the 3 door unit and then push the draw unit over to the right. I then centred the oven on the rangehood and constructed 2 narrow cupboards to fill in the remaining space.

I had a bit of a look online and then went to Bunnings and got the slide out unit which is designed for going next to the pipe under the sink and installed in the wider cupboard (it needs a 150mm minimum i had 147mm) so i had to bow the sides to get the baskets in.

Still have to do the doors but I will wait till after "She who must be obeyed"50th when I pull out the Wall Oven so i can see what timber I get out of that. "She who must be obeyed" wants both ovens for the prep for Number 1 son and her party. We are also considering painting the cupboard doors so if that happens the timber matching won't matter so much.