Custom Kitchen Cabinets

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Comment by adrian val on August 20, 2012 at 1:06pm

I am Back, wow you did a great job. You do so well.

Comment by Jay Boutwell on August 10, 2012 at 9:28am

Thank you Matt, building some nice custom cabinets is one of the ways to increase the value of your home and also make the kitchen a happy place in which to prepare meals and also just to relax.  With the Kreg jig it has made it a whole lot easier to build a cabinet that will be strudy and square. It also makes building curved and angle cabinet easy.  I have been using the kreg jig for better that 20 years building all kinds of cabinetry and custom pieces and have yet to find a easier and or a better system.

With some planning you can build the kitchen you and your wife can really call your custom kitchen design and be assured that no one else will have one like it.  I used some tricks in this kitchen to make it stand out like making the extended cabinets.  It gives it a personality that you have a hard time finding in the run of the mill cabinets that are installed in most new homes of today.

Since these photos were taken I have not installed the microwave cabinet that hangs down from the corner cabinet and fitted the doors with knobs and the drawers with pulls.  I also installed a large raised panel on the refrigerator surround.   What I have left to do is the custom crown molding and trim out the two kitchen windows.

I'll take along my camera next time I go over there.  If I can answer any questions or give you any help, don't hesitate to contact me.  Show her the hickory collection that I have posted over in "my Projects".

 

Comment by Matt Dunning on August 10, 2012 at 8:53am

Very nice work.  My wife and I just purchased a new home and I have been trying to convince her to let me build new cabinets for our kitchen.  I will need to show her these pictures and see if that will finally get her to say yes.

Comment by Jay Boutwell on August 10, 2012 at 8:47am

Hi Randy, You can see all the photos of the build in a slide show at this link. 

http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a49314d5459774e44673d0d0a&blogv...

I do not use the kreg jig to build doors as I use the door making system to cut cope and stick style, and a raised panel making bit on the router table.  Drawers are not made using the Kreg Jig as I build them using the dove tail system. 

However the complete cabinet boxes are built using the kreg jig where I use screws and glue.  The face frames are also constructed using the kreg jig.  The face frames are attached to the case using the kreg jig.  I try to hide as many of the pocket holes as I can such as behind face frame rails and stiles.  In the cases I bore the holes for the the floors so they are screwed from the bottom side and the upper cabinet case I bore and screw them from the top so they will be out of site.  In the lower cases the backs are 3/4" material since it has a heavy granite counter top.  The backs are bored fron the backs through the back into the side panels.

 

I hope this will answer your questions as to where I used the kreg jig. 

Comment by Randy Caswell on August 10, 2012 at 7:22am

Could you please provide some pictures with the doors and drawers open showing where you used your Kreg tool?

Comment by Jay Boutwell on July 20, 2012 at 8:49am

Al, thank you, your comments are always much appreciated. 

Comment by Al Barale on July 20, 2012 at 6:53am

The finished Kitchen looks really good Jay. Well done on another excellent job. Thanks again for taking the time to share your work with us, its appreciated.

Comment by Jay Boutwell on July 17, 2012 at 8:56am

Thank you Michael, I will take photos and post them.  The vanities that I have left to do will have multiple sinks and most likely will have eight drawers and four doors. The plan at present is to build the drawers in the middle of the vanity and unless it gets changed will be configured this way.  The owners are tall so I know the vanities are planned to be 36 inches floor to top.

Comment by Michael R. Turner on July 16, 2012 at 6:54pm

Beautiful work.  Be sure to post pictures of the multiple sink vanities when they are done.  I have one on my honeydo list and would like to see how you arrange the drawers.

Comment by Jay Boutwell on July 15, 2012 at 9:39pm

Thanks Ron for nice complements and for being faithful to your desire to acheive in woodworking.  It is refreshing to hear your determination and I know that you will acheive high golds.  Since I have known you, you have always spoken of the same determination to build cabinets and this tells me that you will.   

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