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Despite the fact that it was 10 million degrees today, Wifey™ and I managed to get one of our projects done. I’ve come to the realization that I’m not cut out for extreme heat. I’d rather live in the tundra, where I can just keep putting on more and more clothing, than to live in the pit of hell where even being naked I’d be too hot.
I know we’ve had hotter days. Regardless, I was hot. That sticky kind of uncomfortable type of hot, where you can’t stand the feeling of your own skin. We saw a lot of people heading to the pool today. I’m not big on pools, all the things people do in them—peeing, sweaty, dirty bodies, just soaking in the water. There’s something a little gross about it.
Anyhow, last weekend we finally went out a bought some cabinets for our entry hall closet project. When we moved in, the closet had these awful white, sliding doors on it. The doors had been installed crooked and they were really just an eyesore. The closed in the entry hall and made a bad first impression. A few weeks ago, we took the doors off and threw them away.
This, of course, left the closet open to the world. Guest would enter the front door and immediately be greeted by all of our junk piled up on the shelves of the closet. A temporary measure, but unsightly, nonetheless. We needed to wait a couple of months for some stock money to come through before buying the cabinets and now that it’s almost here we felt comfortable buying the cabinets.
Because it’s an entry closet, we weren’t exactly ready to plunk down a fortune on custom cabinetry, so we opted for some maple Home Depot cabinets. You bring them home in boxes, put them together and install them. You can do it all in a couple of days, if you get a good assembly line going. We put together the two pantry closets on the first day and then during the week, I put together the other two. Fairly easy for the experienced do-it-yourselfer. If you’ve put together any kind of IKEA furniture, you can do this.
Installation required a level and quite a bit of patience. Typical of anything we buy, one of the pantry cabinets didn’t have the correct holes pre-drilled for the doors to be attached. And since it’d already been put together, and weighed a ton we certainly weren’t going to take it apart and bring it back. Because the holes were too big, Wifey™ came up with the idea to fill them with something. I racked my brain and then we came up with gluing dowels into the holes, cutting them off and then re-drilling smaller holes into the dowels and installing the doors. It worked and we were on our way.
Today we tied up a few loose ends, installed a gap filler on the end and filled the cabinets with the stuff that previously filled the closet. We still need to buy a countertop for the center cabinet and once we do the floors, we’ll install base moldings on the bottom to finish it all off. Whew. Should look good, when it’s all done.
Some photos below show our progress, before and after.
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