Our New Wall of Built-in Cabinetry: Amazing Storage Solution!
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$600
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I’m not even exaggerating when I say we’ve been working on this project for like 2 years. Actually it’s been almost exactly 2 years and one month.
Funny story about that: When we first got the idea to put in this wall of cabinets in the back hall off of our master bedroom, little Jack was about 3 weeks old. Chris saw that they had a whole bunch of basic cabinetry in stock at our local Home Depot that he could just grab and toss in the back of his truck for about $100 per cabinet and I thought it was a great idea!
But.
We’d just finished working on Jack’s nursery for the last year or so and I didn’t want to start on any big projects. So I said we could do it, but we really should just put the cabinets up, power through it, and be done in like 2 weeks. Famous last words, of course.
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Chris actually got the old shelving ripped out and the new cabinets up in about 24 hours, which was an awesome start to the project. But then it was all the little details like adding in the little wood countertop, trimming things out, and painting all the cabinets that feel like they took forever, as usual. You’d think I would have learned by now! So here’s how the room looked before we started this project.
Here's how they turned out! Pretty great, right?!?
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The drywall on the opposite wall still needs to be finished and painted, we brought the bathroom flooring out to the entryway to the deck, but now there’s a big lip because we still need to (one day) put the new flooring in the bedroom, and the wind was coming in at a weird angle one night and whistling in the cracks in this door because we haven’t quite gotten around to putting the new weather stripping in there either. So yes, That’s a towel Chris closed into the top of the door that night to stop the whistling.
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Beautiful, love the little nook!
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No! This isn't amazing, it is beyond amazing. Good job.
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