Kitchen Cabinets part 1

 For this project, we hired a real professional cabinet maker to work with our son. That way we could do a custom kitchen but cut costs a bit. It was a blessing throughout this house build to find pros who were happy and willing to help us learn.

Cabinet bases. 

Our in-house carpenter working on the cabinet backing. 

The pesky corner cabinet. I decided against a lazy Susan corner because it promotes dropped-and stuck items. We'll just put in special sliders so we can access the back.

Mr. Fix-It 

We bought higher quality plywood and really good hardwood for the trim or faces (I forget the term now), but as the kitchen is heavily used it was important to have durable materials. This was one reason we went with DIY with the kitchen cabinets. No MDF backings here.

It was about this time, in looking at the excellent job that had been done, that we suddenly realized that due to some hiccup in the plan markings, the cabinets were all built to standard size. We had actually intended to have extra-deep cabinets. Our sink purchase and other items were drawn our for the extra-deep cabinets, so that meant some adjustments for the rest of the kitchen. It also meant more work, which would not be welcome news. We managed to retain our carpenter despite this news (whew!). You have to be careful with these in-house construction guys; they might go off and get paying jobs and then there goes your best help. 

On our way to a real kitchen at last.