New base cabinets

 

It's time to make some base cabinets for our kitchen. This should be a pretty easy project....I only need about 6 feet of cabinets. Plywood carcasses with cherry face frames and drawers/doors.

 

 

 Here are the three plywood carcasses for the base cabinets (made of 3/4" thick B-C exterior grade plywood). Dishwasher to the left, drawers to the right, and an apron front fireclay sink in the middle. Since this will be an undermount sink that's supported by the cabinetry and not the countertop (which will be 2.5" thick recycled maple butcherblock), it needs to be extra strong to support all of that weight. As such, the sink carcass has double-thick plywood sides and sink shelf, and everything is dadoed, screwed and glued together. Once all three carcasses are in place and screwed together, it'll be a monumentally strong base cabinet!

 

 

 The cherry face frame, doors, and drawers are built (with the panels of the doors having a few coats of shellac applied before the doors were glued together). The drawers have sides made of recycled hard maple, plywood bottoms, and cherry faces. There's also a pull-out shelf above the drawers, just in case a little more counterspace is needed now and again. That shelf is solid cherry with breadboard ends. The bottoms of the cabinets look a little haphazard, but that's intentional...when the cabinets are installed the bottoms you see will be scribed to the VERY out of level floor, so all of the various stiles and rails were left long for that purpose. Trust me, it'll look good. :^)