My Completed (For The Most Half) Studio Workplace Space Cupboards!

Y’all, this has been an extended street, however the cupboards within the workplace space of my studio are nearly carried out! There are nonetheless some ending touches that must be carried out, however I can’t do these issues till different initiatives are carried out. I’ll clarify that later on this publish. However I’ve gotten these cupboards as completed as they are often for now.

And the Veddinge doorways and drawer fronts regarded like this…

And after including my customizations, the progress appears like this…

So let me clarify the obvious unfinished half — the lacking drawer fronts. These 4 drawer fronts are painted, gold foiled, and able to be connected. I had excessive hopes that I might get that carried out, however the instruction handbook displaying how you can assemble and fasten these drawer fronts is buried someplace within the depths of my very messy studio.

I shortly looked for it this morning, however couldn’t discover it. So I attempted to seek out it on-line with no success. I assumed I might determine it out with out the instruction handbook, however in the event you’ve ever assembled IKEA Sektion cupboards with drawers, you recognize that the brackets must be connected in a sure manner relying on the precise drawer association you could have to your explicit cupboard.

I lastly found out the small drawers with out the instruction handbook, however not after attempting at the least six completely different (mistaken) methods of attaching the brackets. I lastly bought it on concerning the sixth or seventh try. And these little drawers solely use one sort of bracket.

The larger drawer fronts use two various kinds of brackets with most likely 16 completely different attainable configurations, so there was no manner I used to be going to attempt to guess. I do know I tucked that instruction handbook away in a secure spot in order that I wouldn’t lose it. However now I can’t bear in mind the place that secure spot is. 😀 As quickly as I discover it (or discover the directions on-line), I’ll connect these final 4 drawer fronts.

I additionally nonetheless want to do that piece of trim on the ground on this one cupboard, however I can’t do this till the baseboard is put in, and I can’t set up the baseboard till that exterior door simply to the best of those cupboards is trimmed out.

I even have a few faulty components, which stunned me. This cupboard door isn’t even put in correctly as a result of the a part of the hinge that attaches inside the cupboard is flawed. They’re all purported to be three-way adjustable, however I can’t get that one to regulate in any respect, so it pulls the door down too low in order that it gained’t shut. I’ll have to get a alternative for that. I even have a drawer slide with a faulty comfortable shut on it. The drawer gained’t shut until I push it closed all the best way.

This space the place the cupboards meet the wall will want some small trim to cowl these cracks. I used to be tempted to make use of caulk to fill them, however with as a lot as our home strikes and shifts all year long, I feel the caulk would crack and must be refilled recurrently. A small trim would look a lot better, however I can’t set up that till the countertop is put in.

So the cupboards are carried out for probably the most half. All the huge stuff — including trim, portray, clear coating, including the gold accents, and many others. — are completed.

My subsequent step is to make the countertop, and I’ve to confess that I’m terrified. I’ve put this off so long as I can as a result of once I made the countertop on the opposite wall, the mud from these boards induced such painful pores and skin issues for me that actually lasted for months. It was terrible. (I shared about it here.)

In all of my 30+ years of DIYing, I had by no means skilled any sort of response to any product I’ve used, so I didn’t take any precautions to cowl my pores and skin earlier than operating the boards by means of my desk noticed. However this time, you higher consider I’ll be protecting myself head to toe, after which showering straight after the entire items are reduce. The considered doubtlessly having to undergo that once more genuinely terrifies me.

Fortunately, it’s a small countertop and needs to be a comparatively fast mission. As soon as that’s carried out, I can set up the window casing, add that little trim the place the cupboards meet the wall, after which end the sconces and get them put in. Oh! And I nonetheless want so as to add the cupboard door and drawer pulls! Cupboards want jewellery, too!

I’m so extremely excited to have the majority of this large mission completed. The remaining needs to be a breeze! And by the best way, as quickly as I discover that instruction handbook and get these final for drawer fronts on, I’ll add an image to this publish. I’m hoping that will likely be later right this moment! I simply want to recollect the place that spot is the place I tucked that instruction handbook away for secure holding. 😀

UPDATE! I discovered it! About ten seconds after I hit the “publish” button on this publish, I remembered the place I put that instruction handbook, so listed below are the cupboards with the remainder of the drawer fronts connected.

I can’t wait to get this space completed!! It’s been a very long time coming, and I’m so excited to lastly see it turn into actuality.

FYI, the reflections on the gold accents typically trigger an optical phantasm the place it appears just like the trim is curved. That’s one thing that solely occurs in photos. In individual, there isn’t a such optical phantasm. However relaxation assured, the entire trim and gold foil accents are completely straight on my cupboards, and none of my cupboard doorways or drawers are bowed. 🙂

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.