{"id":4166,"date":"2011-09-29T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2013-11-28T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T04:46:15","slug":"fairfield-kitchen-cabinets-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=4166","title":{"rendered":"Fairfield kitchen cabinets (continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My order of Bonnie Lavish kits<\/a> included a counter top and sink. The sink is made of wood—three skinny cutout pieces that are glued together to create depth, and a bottom piece with “drains” scribed into the wood. The photo below shows the sink parts after the three cutouts were glued together, but before the bottom piece was glued on.<\/p>\n

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After assembling the sink, I primed it and the counter top with one of my favorite paint colors, Glidden Sandy Feet.<\/p>\n

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I colored in the drain holes with brown magic marker (seemed easier than painting those tiny circles, plus I’d been using the marker for touch-ups on the laser cut edges of the cabinet pieces, so it was handy). Then I glued washers on top to look like drains. They’re a little big but they get the point across.<\/p>\n

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\nWhile all that was in progress, I made a microwave. I used Google image search to find a straight-on picture of an over-the-range microwave (the kind with an exhaust vent above it). I resized this in Photoshop and printed it out. I glued some scrap wood together to make a box, rounded the edges, and painted it with bright white. Then I glued the printie onto the wood block with Mod Podge.<\/p>\n

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Here it is in place. Since the cabinets don’t have backs, the microwave helps with securing the upper cabinets to the wall. The box is a little crooked at the top because I had to sand it down to size and didn’t do a perfect job. I didn’t notice until I was gluing on the front and didn’t feel like pulling it apart. Once it’s in place in the room, it’s not very noticeable.<\/p>\n

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Now it was time to assemble the bottom cabinets. I started by adding a piece of wood in the corner, where the cabinets meet at a right angle. <\/p>\n

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This showed through at the bottom<\/a> where I neglected to extend the toe-kicks, so I glued small pieces of scrap wood over the exposed corners. It’s a little funky but it gets the job done!<\/p>\n

I glued the sink to the underside of the counter top, then glued the counter pieces to the cabinets. They’d warped a little from being painted so I used clamps to make sure they glued on flat.<\/p>\n

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I used wood filler to fill in the crack where the two counter pieces met.<\/p>\n

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Then I started the paint spattering process. My idea was to use complimentary colors in batches, so I splatted on one color, let it dry, then did the next, etc. I used a toothbrush to glop on the paint. I sort of went nuts with the colors and in the end probably used ten different shades that sort of, kind of looked good together.<\/p>\n

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After the paint dried dried, I sanded it. Here’s how it looked after sanding. I might have used sandpaper that was too coarse, because a lot of the color came off. I just wasn’t happy with it.<\/p>\n

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So, I went back to it, this time using not as many colors and blending the paint with the toothbrush a bit while it was still wet, rather than waiting for each color to dry. <\/p>\n

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This time it came out more stone-like, but now the sink didn’t match since I’d entirely covered up the base coat of Sandy Feet.<\/p>\n

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Since the kitchen trim is bright white and the appliances are white, I decided to make the sink white as well. I’d already glued in the washer drains and couldn’t get them out, so I covered them with masking tape the best I could, folding down the edges of the tape around the washers with an Xacto blade.<\/p>\n

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Painted a few coats of white, and…<\/p>\n

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…much better! <\/p>\n

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Finally happy with the look of the counter top, I did the backsplash pieces the same way. <\/p>\n

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After sanding the counter top and backsplash with fine grit sandpaper and gluing on the backsplash, I painted the counter with matte varnish. The last step was making a faucet. The kit didn’t come with one and I was planning to use jewelry findings, but my dad (who happens to be visiting) suggested a nail. We used a skinny one that’s meant for hanging picture hooks. <\/p>\n

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He put the nail in a vice<\/a> and used some kind of tool (channel locks? I don’t know what that is) to bend it.<\/p>\n

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We were going to cut off the head of the nail but decided to keep it. My own kitchen faucet has one of those heads that extends with a hose and it has a head that’s wider than the rest of the spout, just like the nail head. We added an earring back to look like spigots.<\/p>\n

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He drilled a hole<\/a> in the countertop for the faucet and we inserted it. It’s not glued in, so it can be rotated to point into either side of the sink.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the finished kitchen!<\/p>\n

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Plus a gratuitous “lights on” shot.<\/p>\n

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