I partnered with QuikDrawers.com to bring you the free plans for the China Hutch. QuikDrawers sells custom drawers sized to the 1/16". Available in plywood or solid birch. Dovetail construction, pre-finished and you can get them bored and notched if you have specialty hinges so all you have to Continue Reading
March 12, 2015
Installing Drawers with Blum Tandem plus Blumotion drawer slides
So now the China Hutch looks pretty because it's dressed up with crown moulding, corbels, decorative toe-kick and a beadboard backsplash. After completing all that, it was time to focus on the things that would make it functional: shelves and drawers! As soon as I drilled shelf pin holes and added Continue Reading
March 6, 2015
How to cut beadboard to fit around decorative moulding.
Since I installed beadboard as the backing for my upper China hutch cabinets, I wanted a beadboard backsplash in the open portion between the two corbels. But Dang! I wish I would have waited to add trim to my corbels until after I installed them and the beadboard. Simply slapping up a piece of Continue Reading
March 5, 2015
Adding a Decorative Toe Kick to a Cabinet Faceframe
I love adding visual interest to my cabinets and built-ins and I've been creating a decorative toe-kick on key cabinets in my kitchen. This is a really easy way to add a decorative toe-kick to cabinetry that already exists or that you are building. On new cabinetry, you could cut out your design Continue Reading
March 3, 2015
Upper China Hutch
Yesterday, I shared details about building my china hutch base. Today I'm sharing the upper cabinets, including my crazy idea for how to approach sliding doors. I joined two cabinets to create the total width of the China Hutch and I wanted to have access to one complete side an any given time. Continue Reading
March 2, 2015
China Hutch base
OK y'all, we're getting back to the kitchen renovation this week and I'm sharing all the details on my China Hutch, starting today with the base. I vacillated quite a bit on the design because I really wanted a tall, one piece armoire type piece of furniture with sliding glass doors. But, I NEEDed Continue Reading
