The complete kitchen has been made of some kind of flooring.
The cabinets, doors, etc. are made from Radiata Pine floor boards.
Benchtop and Borders are made from Merbau decking.
The wet area benchtop is made from granite floor tiles.
The cabinets, doors, etc. are made from Radiata Pine floor boards.
Benchtop and Borders are made from Merbau decking.
The wet area benchtop is made from granite floor tiles.
Cabinet assembly done with 8mm dowels.
The left corner will be a lift-up cabinet, using parts from a stand-up desk.
First testing of the assembly on the veranda.
We took time to carefully arrange the granite tiles. They are
all left-overs that we got from a nearby stonemason and they
are all different.
all left-overs that we got from a nearby stonemason and they
are all different.
It took three days to get the kitchen in.
Rubberising the workbench for the tiling work.
First half assembled, yeah!
The tall cabinets are 215 cm tall.
The overhead cabinet equipped with a Nebula Lifter for easy access.
Making of the kitchen front
All glued together
And mounted
The lift-up cabinet in action.
Fully extended.
An internal drawer makes it a lot easier to get to things under the sink.
The right blind corner is equipped with a 45 degrees internal drawer
and a lift-up for Ninas dough mixer.
and a lift-up for Ninas dough mixer.
Next to it the rubbish bin
All drawers are dove-tailed
A 820mm workstation sink in a 270cm kitchen.
Fits tight...
Fits tight...
The lift-up cabinet in action
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You may have noticed that there is a gap between the dishwasher and the bench-top. And the wall above the sink is a little bleak. But there is a solution to that:
Not perfectly closed but better than before
Some room for the fingers is required. To pull out the bench-top extender.
A small shelf fixes the rear wall.
It's combined with a rod to store a range of kitchen utensils.
We still need to buy a few meat hooks so that we can put up dippers, etc.
We still need to buy a few meat hooks so that we can put up dippers, etc.
