First Kitchen

[rnt80]

I'm wrapping up my first kitchen.  Actually it was a kitchen, two bathrooms, a laundry room and hall cabinets.  The entire process has been a huge learning experience for me.  I still have to build the island but everything else is done.  I think I used every Festool I owned on this job at some point or another.

 

[jmbfestool]

Done good job their mate.

I take it the Client doesn't like or need worktop space lol.

EDITED:  You just added more pictures after I posted the comment above?! Little bit  more worktop area

JMB

 

[mastercabman]

Real nice!    How long did it take you to complete the job?  And did you have any help?
Did you built everything? Doors/drawers?

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

No cook-top vent?

 

[rnt80]

No cook-top vent?

The customer is putting that in, they just haven't got around to it yet.

 

[rnt80]

Real nice!     How long did it take you to complete the job?   And did you have any help?
Did you built everything? Doors/drawers?

Thanks.  I've been working on this for about two months.  I did have some help installing the boxes and I had a buddy come over and install a bunch of the drawer slides.  I outsourced about 1/3 of the boxes but did everything else in my garage.  I thought about outsourcing the doors but decided not to. 

 

[rnt80]

Russell,
Beautiful work and a lot of work.  I'd love to hear more about your finishing schedule sometime. Congratulations on a job well done!

Joe

Thanks Joe.  The finishing schedule was a bear.  I sanded everything to 180 first.  Stain was SW.  I topped the stain with a light coat of dewaxed shellac/denatured alcohol.  The doors and drawer fronts then got a black glaze.  I finished everything with 2 coats of WB lacquer.  I started with Target EM6000, ran out and had to use Valspar's WB pre cat.  I have to say that the coat of shellac over the stain really made the grain pop soooo much more than just going over the stain with the lacquer.

 

[honeydoman]

russell,

great looking job... and I bet it was a learning experiance!  and each time you do one you get better and better and you get to buy more festools !

 

[tjbier]

Very nice work!
Do you have any pictures of the cabinets without the doors on?

 

[fshanno]

Classy.  Very Classy.  The finish is beautiful.  I would call in Mediterranean is that right? 

So what do you think about the experience in general?  I'm about to start my first for-profit kitchen. 

 

[rnt80]

I installed the island this last weekend, it is the last part of this job.  I would've had things wrapped up a little sooner but I had to go see Rice get inducted in Canton [big grin].  The legs and corbels are from Osborne.  Sorry, the pictures aren't that good.