My kitchen sits in the corner of the living room - it's all one big room. I recently finished (mostly) the rebuild of the living room, and have now started on the cabinets. My brother does custom cabinetry for a living, so I've picked his brain a little and jumped into building a new kitchen from the ground up. Anyway, I want MY stuff do be different (and maybe even original!) in design. After looking at hundreds of other designs, I came up with something I haven't seen - I'm going to offset all the drawers from the cabinets so everything 'interlocks' in a unique way.
Here's the living room before:
current:
My conceptualization for the cabinet design (in general):
You can see that the drawers are centered differently over the doors. Since these will have granite (heavy) tops, I will be simply building separate cabinet and drawer boxes - this will make it the strongest (but will use a lot more material). This way I can easily create the offset though. Once all the boxes are built (birch plywood) then I'll build the oak facing for it all (can't wait for that part!).
One of the cabinet boxes:
it'll be all Kreg Jigged together. Inelegant but makes for fast assembly and will be plenty strong (not to mention not visible except inside the cabinets).
I've recently started on a 36" disc (39" cabinet) lazy susan:
this thing is a monster!
I'll be posting more as I go!
Here's the living room before:
current:
My conceptualization for the cabinet design (in general):
You can see that the drawers are centered differently over the doors. Since these will have granite (heavy) tops, I will be simply building separate cabinet and drawer boxes - this will make it the strongest (but will use a lot more material). This way I can easily create the offset though. Once all the boxes are built (birch plywood) then I'll build the oak facing for it all (can't wait for that part!).
One of the cabinet boxes:
it'll be all Kreg Jigged together. Inelegant but makes for fast assembly and will be plenty strong (not to mention not visible except inside the cabinets).
I've recently started on a 36" disc (39" cabinet) lazy susan:
this thing is a monster!
I'll be posting more as I go!