{"id":20424,"date":"2023-09-27T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=20424"},"modified":"2023-09-27T22:12:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:12:15","slug":"more-cassidy-creations-cupboard-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=20424","title":{"rendered":"More Cassidy Creations cupboard bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get back to the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=20370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bashed cabinets<\/a>, here are a few other pieces that will go in the Mansard Victorian&#8217;s kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>I bought this metal Cassidy Creations sink for a few dollars at a mini flea market. It had already been painted with glossy white paint.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard548.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The sink has two legs in the front and none in back &#8212; it&#8217;s meant to lean against the wall. I propped a piece of strip wood under the back of the sink while the glue dried on the legs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard549.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The soap holder that goes between the taps was missing from this kit. A little disappointing, but the sink looks fine without it. <s>Beggars<\/s> People who pay $2 for a discontinued sink kit at a flea market can&#8217;t be choosers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard550.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>These ladderback chairs are a recent eBay purchase. The listing attributed them to Bauder-Pine but they&#8217;re not signed, so I reached out to the seller to ask about them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard551.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The seller wrote back to me that these were part of a collection of Bauder-Pine pieces from 1994 that included a Hoosier cabinet, an ice box, a table, and four chairs. All the pieces were signed except for the chairs. The rest were sold off separately &#8212; I&#8217;d seen them on eBay, but didn&#8217;t bid since I already had the kitchen furniture I needed for this house.<\/p>\n<p>The chairs look good with the Bauder-Pine trestle table I <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=18363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bought on eBay last year<\/a>. The peg on the end of the table keeps the chair from pushing all the way in, but luckily no one will actually be sitting in these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard552.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Okay, back to the cabinets. As I explained <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=20370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last time<\/a>, I&#8217;m making these cabinets out of Cassidy Creations cupboard kits and a changing table kit that I divided into two pieces. When I left off, I&#8217;d finished the first base cabinet and started on the second one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard529.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Painting, sanding, and hinging later, here&#8217;s how it looks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard534.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Here are the two cabinets flanking the stove. I can&#8217;t believe how perfectly these fit in the space &#8212; you&#8217;d think I planned it or something!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard535.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I noted in my last post that the cabinets are a bit short compared to the stove. They&#8217;re also only 3\/4&#8243; deep, which is equivalent to 18&#8243; in half scale. Kitchen cabinets are normally 24&#8243; deep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard540.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The depth was easy fix to fix by adding 1\/4&#8243; strip wood (equivalent to 6&#8243;) to the backs of the cabinets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard541.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>This pushes them out so they end just before the front of the stove. You can&#8217;t tell there&#8217;s a gap between the cabinet back and the wall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard542.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The height of these cabinets is 1 1\/4&#8243;. A normal kitchen cabinet (including countertop) would be about 36&#8243;, or 1 1\/2&#8243; in half scale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard537.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>You can see how short it is compared to the cabinets in the <a href=\"blog\/?page_id=10013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosedale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard539.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I added pieces of 1&#8243; x 1\/8&#8243; strip wood to the tops. This covers up the spacer in the back and makes the cabinet a little taller. I&#8217;ll add an additional piece of wood on top of this to make the countertop, which will make the cabinets about the right height.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard543.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not happy with the seam where the strip wood meets the top of the cabinet, especially over that tall door where the added wood isn&#8217;t quite flush at the front. These need another round of sanding and painting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard544.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s how they look for now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard545.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>And here they are with the rest of the furniture. The hutch is a placeholder. I&#8217;m planning to build a Cassidy Creations Hoosier cabinet to go there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard546.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/mansard\/mansard547.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Next I&#8217;ll work on the uppers. I have a kind of crazy idea for bashing those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get back to the bashed cabinets, here are a few other pieces that will go in the Mansard Victorian&#8217;s kitchen. I bought this metal Cassidy Creations sink for a few dollars at a mini flea market. It had already been painted with glossy white paint. 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