Sinks in islands don't look dumb to me as long as they're done right, often they are redundant though. I don't draw anything but I do dictate a lot of design to draftsman after being engaged by a client, To me where the sink goes is all to do with how to use the kitchen or if it gets used at all.

If the primary goal of the kitchen is to look good Then that is what we do, we don't worry about things like doing the dishes talking to kids sitting at the island doing their homework et cetera. We have built kitchens worth a couple 100 grand that the little lady doesn't even cook in, they have a second kitchen called a service kitchen that they don't cook in either but that's where the food prep happens. Lol

Sitting down and discussing how people live their day-to-day lives and where they spend the most time at what time of day is important for a lot of thing it's, sometimes even the direction the house faces at what time of day, although that would have to be a pretty good sized lot to dictate that. But certainly where the sink or kitchen triangle originates would be important to how they use the kitchen. Our island is over 11' by 5 and a 1/2 feet or so, it's just storage and countertop, with an eat at counter, it gets used a lot more than the table as we intended. A second sink would be redundant, I did add electrical and made one of the drawers the right size for a Thermador warming drawer but never put one in, it remains just a regular drawer

 

...I did add electrical and made one of the drawers the right size for a Thermador warming drawer but never put one in, it remains just a regular drawer

One of the things I'll tell clients is that NOW is the time to do it, because you've been thinking about it for a long time and chances are if you don't do it now, it's likely not going to happen for a variety of reasons... so now's the time to choose to make those decisions and not have to look back with regret that you didn't...

 

Mostly finished up today. Handles and 2 shelf pins. Missed it by this much.

Then the vanity went in. Of course wall to wall in a very confined space. Asked them to leave the door off and they did. Helped a lot.

Gotta get the logo on the drawer in

And then this damn cabinet. 49" wide 25 1/4 deep and 8' tall. I wanted to build it 7' tall because you just don't need a cabinet that big. But they insisted on 8'. It's wall to wall and of course the opening is smaller at the front than where the cabinet will rest. Of course the walls aren't plumb, who does plumb walls anyway? And who needs a level floor?

I had a removable stile and planned on pocket screwing it back in place and jamming the cabinet into place. But because the opening is smaller than the cabinet We had to put the cabinet in place and glue the stile on. We did about a dozen test trials and kept having weird issues with alignment. No biscuit joiner on site either. 2P10 and some speedy work and we got it all in place. What a PITA.

Sno gave me a hand with all this. No way to do that big cabinet by yourself. Even the GC kept saying "Man, that's a big cabinet"

 

Mostly finished up today. Handles and 2 shelf pins. Missed it by this much.
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Then the vanity went in. Of course wall to wall in a very confined space. Asked them to leave the door off and they did. Helped a lot.
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Gotta get the logo on the drawer in
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And then this damn cabinet. 49" wide 25 1/4 deep and 8' tall. I wanted to build it 7' tall because you just don't need a cabinet that big. But they insisted on 8'. It's wall to wall and of course the opening is smaller at the front than where the cabinet will rest. Of course the walls aren't plumb, who does plumb walls anyway? And who needs a level floor?

I had a removable stile and planned on pocket screwing it back in place and jamming the cabinet into place. But because the opening is smaller than the cabinet We had to put the cabinet in place and glue the stile on. We did about a dozen test trials and kept having weird issues with alignment. No biscuit joiner on site either. 2P10 and some speedy work and we got it all in place. What a PITA.

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Sno gave me a hand with all this. No way to do that big cabinet by yourself. Even the GC kept saying "Man, that's a big cabinet"

you left out all the swearwords that needed to take place in order for that sucker to go in correctly, the stupid rough floor did not make things easy thank God, we brought the quarter-inch prefinished plywood to slide it in place!

But we do what we do and it always comes out nice!

 

We're not allowed to say those things on CT.

 

Only use loose when it's a wall to wall single cabinet. Otherwise the stile is glued

 

The money scribe!

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You missed and shorted a piece...

A beautiful scribe is a beautiful thing...

 

Compass and a jigsaw? Or a contour gauge? Looks amazing either way.

 

Contour gauge on the ends and a scrap piece telescoped (for a lack of better word) out to get the profile.


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It's not easy to jigsaw composite. Can be a real *****.


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It's not easy to jigsaw composite. Can be a real *.


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Have you tried the double ground (for lack of a better term) blades? With the teeth that alternate bevel direction. I stumbled on them for composite doing that sunning bench I posted a while back. They seem to work really well on composite, at least in my experience.

 

Little change of pace. There is an office furniture supply company next to our shop. They started selling these "demountable" office wall systems. Sold a decent job and asked us to install it. Installed everything and measured for glass 2 weeks ago. Glass came in today and we set it this morning. Went pretty good.

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Nothing special, just some demo and adding new floor and roof system.

The money is great though.."whatever it costs".

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Did a little side job. Built out the columns with a stacked stone and finished the tops with PVC wraps.

The homeowner was really happy with them and said I do great work. He builds really nice furniture by hand as a hobby so to me that's a great compliment.

 

Client sent me pix of the cabinets I installed with their new countertops.

I'm not fond of the hard square corners. But they love it.

 

Those cup pulls seem popular the past few years... installed quite a few of varying finishes/styles... and farmhouse sinks...

 

I hate those things. It's difficult to know where to mount them. If you put an even space above and below them they look wrong. You have to push them up a bit because the curved top makes it look like it's farther away. Plus the holes aren't centered in the pull so that compounds the issue.

Since I've dealt with them a lot, I've come to know how to deal with them and make them look properly mounted.

 

Since I've dealt with them a lot, I've come to know how to deal with them and make them look properly mounted.

So what happened on this job?


I crack myself up sometimes.

 

On just about any handle or knob I put on a drawer face I mount it about 1/16" high of center. When you are standing up and looking down at them they will look to low if they are perfectly centered. The small push upward really helps remove the illusion.

 

I think you had a handle on it.

Yuck, yuck.

Andy.

 

Finally sweet talked an AHJ out of a permit, wasn't due to have the permit before next year. Started demo this morning, give 3 guys something to do for a lot of next week, I figire December is 25k loss for the month with production down 80% , so I'll take about 3k in labor not coming out of pocket. Everyone's off from.next Friday through Jan 3

Smaller project, nice change of pace. The apartment is small but well done, it's got a 40k in windows and doors in it

 

Getting some chit done anyway with some guys broke loose, fences on rentals, one just became vacant after 2 years and was repainted, cleaned etc... pouring the concrete curb at the street to keep the road from getting busted up, dropped some gravel in the equipment shed, etc....

Getting concrete in my barn next week, got to get it set up this weekend. Looking forward to it actually, I'm about "officed" out at this point 😆

 

Finished my last Christmas gift. Nothing crazy but I really like how it turned out.
Brother in law is a huge sea hawks fan

 

Finished my last Christmas gift. Nothing crazy but I really like how it turned out.
Brother in law is a huge sea hawks fan
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So have to ask.. is the painting the gift, if so, is that one of those paint by numbers thing or are you that good? Or is the mounting the gift as someone who works with wood? Or all of the above...

 

Nice.

 

Locked up solid…

Tom

 

Oof!

 

Time for a bigger turbo?

 

Bigger turbo = bigger HOPS pump, larger injectors, larger exhaust. Seeing as I’m moving to a 20K square foot building bigger turbo is a little out of the budget right now.

Tom

 

A client just sent me this picture from their boat on the lake of the back of one of our houses. Pretty big footprint, ended up being 7600' under roof, really get that feel from the lake better than the street side

 

Now that's classy.

 

Been working solo the last week. My boys are on vacation.

Mike.
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Been working solo the last week. My boys are on vacation.

Mike.
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Scribing respect...

Anything under to support that thin strip of the scribe?