Hallway niche
Kkkkkaty
7 years ago
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Comments (8)I feel for you! I bought 2 inexpensive cabinets to stack in a hall niche outside a tiny bathroom. The idea was to provide storage for towels, TP, soap, cleaning supplies, etc. Although they looked great when assembled, the cabinets absolutely reeked of formaldehyde and/or glue, to the extent that I worried about keeping them in the house. Fortunately, they arrived in the summer, and I put them out on the deck in the sun (lying flat w/ doors open) when there was no chance of rain. Quite the PITA. After about 3 weeks of off-gassing in the heat (first time I've ever been thankful for temperatures in the 90s), the odor had decreased considerably, but was still slightly detectable. The cabinets are now installed in the hall and loaded with everything I wanted to store, except towels. Wouldn't want to put anything in them that might pick up the odor. It likely will take a year or 2 before the cabinets have off-gassed to the point where the odor is no longer detectable. These cabinets were no bargain!...See MoreOur first Sherr's cabinet assembled
Comments (14)It sounds complicated because we couldn't do 100% Ikea cabinets. Here's what we've got: - all perimeter cabinets are Ikea. Base cabinets on the sink/stove walls will have doors from SemiHandMade in horizontal walnut. Upper cabinets on the sink/stove walls will have Ikea doors (Abstrakt high gloss white or glass) with side panels in walnut, also from SemiHandMade. All cabinets on the fridge wall are Atbtrakt high gloss white. We're thinking of a walnut butcher block counter under the microwave. - the island cabinets are only 18" deep. We could have cut down 24" deep Ikea cabinets and used them, but then we couldn't have drawers. So we decided to order those two 30"x18" base cabinets from Sherr's, including the drawer fronts. It seemed safer to do that rather than coordinate SemiHandMade drawer fronts with Sherr's drawer sizes. These two island cabinets also have a horizontal grain. The variation in walnut sheets isn't that great, so we were willing to live with slight differences, if any. We haven't unpacked those drawer fronts yet (dust, chaos, etc) - they're for the 2nd & 3rd cabinets in my original post. - the vertical grain cabinet in the picture in my first post is for a niche that's just outside the kitchen in the hallway from the garage. It's through the doorway in the plan below. Here's the plan:...See MoreHelp Shiplap/plank walls. Why are they buckling?
Comments (13)Humidity in the summer months will swell the wood. In the winter it will shrink back down. The wider the planks, the more noticable the change -- our floor are wide-width pine and in the winter, we get gaps between 1/8" and 1/4". In the summer, no gap. We have wide width paneling as well and it does the same thing. Heck even my piano goes out of tune in the summer because the soundboard and tuning block swell with the humidity. Movement can be minimized by backpriming and making sure that there is a moisture barrier if on an outside wall, but you will never totally stop it -- the ability to absorb moisture from the air is just a property of wood. If this was installed during the winter, the builder should have left bigger gaps to accommodate the summer swelling. (Really, the best thing to do is install during the most humid month -- that way you know you have "worst case scenario" spacing (though you then need to be prepared for the gaps to get very big during the winter).) Now your options are to redo the wall entirely or take down the worst boards, trim them bit and reinstall them (prime the sides you cut to minimize moisture from getting back in). If you don't want to touch the boards, you could also try keeping the humidity in the house low by running the A/C or a dehumidifier -- that would minimize the moisture in the air which would shrink the wood a bit. But I think no matter what, you are going to have to deal with some amount of wood movement which is going to change the look and size of the gaps. If you really really really can't deal with anything but uniform gaps, you could redo the wall using some kind of plastic/fake wood like Azek or Trex or mdf -- that won't move with the humidity but you will be in for a ton of money and it will probably not look as nice the wood or be historically appropriate for the house. Good luck!...See MoreNiche shelving upside down?!
Comments (10)You could "fix" the proportions by removing the middle shelf. Put the orchid or another tall item on the bottom shelf. Put the plate or the figurines on the top shelf. It would be nice if the item on the top shelf had a little negative space at the top. The poor orchid is bumping its head up there....See More
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