built in dining room cabinets
hey guys we're evan and katelyn andhopefully there are some really pretty after shots popping up on screen rightnow okay today we are redoing our laundry room so here it is we walkthrough this room every day on our way to the shop this is where we keep ourcamera stuff strangely it's got a big looming fridge we don't use and ofcourse the litter box the space is really not optimized so time for achange so here's the plan we're getting a new front loading washer and dryerfrom lowe's we wanted front loading machines so we could put a counter topover them and gain a big usable horizontal surface we're thinking oak plywood for the counter maybe double stack
so it looks real beefy we went withthese samsung energy-efficient front loaders because they had good reviewsand this secret little door if you forget a sock we're also getting rid ofour fridge which came with the house because it mainly houses beer that wehave leftover from our wedding which was four years ago why is this beer stillhere however we do love having the extra freezer space so we're gonna get a smallchest freezer to replace it of course we're making a counter to goover the freezer to but it opens from the top so we'll have to figure out somesort of hinged countertop thing to do last the good ol cat boxyes the place where our supervisor poops
we want to hide it so we're making alittle built-in cubby between the freezer and the washer to tuck it awaywe'll pop some open storage on top too okay we have a lot to do let's go okayso we got all the old stuff cleared out we got our new machines in we ran a testload and both of them to make sure that everything works before we went andbuilt a bunch of stuff around them no leaks but we also didn't want to startbuilding our pieces yet until they were in place just in case we had to positionthings a little differently plan so we measured everything firstpiece that we're gonna build is this shelving unit right that's gonna beright here and that's gonna set the
height for the whole thing once we havethis in place then we're gonna add the back braces over here and then thecounter top so we're basically done oh... uh oh. continue fully shaped panel cut! bunch more to do... so just to give our box a little bitmore rigidity and make assembling it easier we are going to be routingrabbits along a few of the edges so that when the pieces fit together they golike that
all of our panels of our main panels forthis cubby unit are cut we have all of our rabbits done so now it's time forfit test. that rabbit goes over here that's the back we need to move thelegs in a little bit. push at the base. now we paint. allright so we're about to paint the panels we just test fit together but before wedo we want to figure out how we're gonna do the edges we could edge band it butthat seems like it might be a lot of work yeah so we're gonna do a little bitof testing fill any holes we can see let that dry paint it over my guess is thatwith a freshly cut edge that is filled the paint will fill in the gaps enoughto make it look good i think it's gonna
look like plywood. so we're gonna use the same paint colorwe put on our pantry door a few weeks ago which is sherwin williams hgtv homein the color domino i'm sure there's gonna be people likewhy are you painting over that wood we have a lot of wood we're not paintingover that's all i can say i'm sorry looks pretty good actually i think it doeskind of match i just go for it that would be a lot less work i think i have a plan for how to gluethis together so that's the top piece one side piececan you hand me the back yeah you know
those realized we don't have glue onhere we just realized we forgot to do add the holes for the shelf hardware would have been easier to do before we assembled everything and on myinstructions we made add self hardware to side panels before assemble oh we can make it work yeah i mean you can reach in there right so you could do every single hope we'regonna do like every other we cut this little test piece to makesure that there's just enough room one thing that we've noticed is thisattracts dust so i think we're going to
do some polycrylic over it to give it alittle bit more gloss now we just scoot it into place! is there enough space? yeahjust like we planned and we we need to unplug this so we can go. but no look look. it's the other plug shoooot! dangit. can we just cut a hole in the back of this? so we did all of this planning this big ol plug it seems like the least work would be just cut out a hole from the back because it's either thator take off the whole face no we'll just cut a hole
ok so, next. nap? we need to determine wherethe countertop is gonna be so we're gonna bring this to the final height by adding a spacer on top of it and then we'll measure that and then we'll determinewhere the sides are gonna go along the back wall and the side wall all right so now it's time to cut thecountertop so we have a few options for the actual countertop which is theprettiest? she's the prettiest
look at that big divot in the wall zero right here there's no way that we can get a straight piece flat what about this whatabout this alrighty so if we put this i'm not against that we're gonna cutrecesses in the trim for all of the cabling and pockets that's awesome it'sso perfect so we have our top trim pieces ready to be glued up we need tocut the bottom trim pieces that are gonna make this look like it's doublethick, we didn't want to actually stack two so it's just gonna look like it fromthe outside edge so we'll cut those and then one big glue up and put it alltogether
it's glue up time! we didn't have enough clamps to do every side at once so we would clampup one side screw into it to act as a clamp and then move the clamps to thenext side i hope it fits!! it's too late now if it doesn't! oh my gosh!! look how nice that looks!! this looks like i think we couldn't bedone at this point actually if we wanted to this is a thing okay so at this pointyou guys have seen us cut enough big pieces of wood into smaller pieces ofwood so for our next section the freezer
section we're just gonna *magic* the main feature that we wanted to have for this base is to have a matching countertopover the freezer and there even though that's a challenge is because it's a topopening freezer well the killer has to move with the door so we made these sidepanels to make it match the main countertop and have a little bit of anoverhang and these side pieces will be held up by more side pieces assemblethose right up and get back to you so we attached the countertop overhang pieces tothe side panels using pocket holes the
reason we didn't make the countertopwider is because it would have hit the overhang on the taller countertop tothe right and if we scooted it far enough to the left to give it clearancethere would be a weird gap in between it and the cubby for the freezer weliterally stuck these panels on with some heavy-duty double-sided tapebecause they couldn't actually be attached to the moving countertop honestly at the beginning this projectwe didn't know that we can take this on so hopefully watching us accomplish thisinspires you guys to take on project of your own thanks for watching bye!
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