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Comments (20)I recently completed a project to do exactly this. After recently completing a kitchen remodel, the plan was to make a small broom closet outside the kitchen, that would open into the living room. However having a normal looking door in that location would have looked out-of-place. After some research, I found several of the websites listed above and none of them were exactly what I was looking for, and as someone noted they are not exactly cheap. I also found a site named facadedoor.com which seems to sell bookcase doors through Home Depot, but their offered sized were bigger that I could use. (and no prices are listed anywhere) So instead I built and installed a bookcase door of my own design. The hinges were the most difficult thing to figure out. I ended up going with heavy duty swing clear hinges (from Hardware Source and then carefully placed the frame trim so that it covered most of the hinges. You can see the barrel of the hinge protruding from the right edge of the trim in the first picture below. The other big difficulty was remembering enough of college trigonometry to figure out how much the sides of the cabinet needed to slope in at the back of the cabinet so that the door would be able to swing open. (In my case the answer was 12.5 degrees) The sides, top bottom and shelves are 1x8 poplar, the bottom panel and the back are 1/2" plywood. The face frame is 1x3 poplar. The costs for materials was about $250. I already had a table saw, a miter saw, and a router, but I needed to buy a pocket screw jig kit. Some of the above posts have made realize that safety-wise the design needs a little more work, since there is no way to undo the latch from the inside of the closet. Although the broom closet is small enough that I don't think an adult could fit in there with the door closed a small child probably could, and I'd really hate to find an actual skeleton in my closet....See MoreO.T. Welsh mining tragedy
Comments (12)There was an article in my newspaper this morning about this, saying that there was another death. I'm so sorry to hear about it. I, of course, live in Kentucky where we have lots of coal mining and have had numbers of accidents and cave-ins over the years. A couple of years ago we were in a small town in the eastern part of the state where we saw a reclaimed mountain top that had a golf course and riding stables on it. (Cynically, it is the home town of a high ranking state politician.) It is surely an improvement on earlier sites where mountain-top removal had just left the land scarred and with nasty run off into the water systems. It's a real problem where we have poverty, land waste, and danger on the one hand and rich coal seams that bring money into needy areas, not to mention the environmental issues, on the other....See MoreNew construction kitchen help, please
Comments (29)I hate to open a can of worms, but with the much larger beverage center backing the pantry, I think it's feasible to have bar sink there, or at least a wall spigot and tray drain. Is plumbing for a drain in that spot an issue? Is it the expense, or is it the idea of having three sinks in a kitchen, when one is the standard for most of the country? (One is the standard for most of the people I know.) Do you have frequent guests, or more than one cook/helper in the family? If yes to either, then having a clean-up sink and a prep sink makes sense, and will give you a more functional kitchen. So, here's something to consider--leave the window where I moved it, which provides space for dish storage to the right of the clean-up sink and DW. Leave the prep sink on the far end of the island, so that the cook can scoop prepped items off the end closer to the range. Leave the trash pull-out on that end, since it's convenient to all the zones. Move the fridge closer to the corner, with a side pantry, 15-18" deep, to help make up for pantry space lost to the beverage center, and to get the fridge a little closer to the prep area. The side cabinet could instead store brooms and cleaning supplies. Include a bar sink and UC fridge in the beverage center. If a bar sink in that location is out of the question, you could put in a water cooler. ;) Counter top hot/cold dispenser on Amazon/3 or 5 gallon/$99.99....See MoreQuotes 11 - 27 - 17 : 1, Anthony, Hearn, Sheehy
Comments (1)I like Gail Sheehy! Second Adulthood, indeed. I don't like to be introduces as "90+ years young" - it makes me think of second childhood. I like to be grown up, took me long enough to get there....See Morearcy_gw
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