Our Home from Scratch
We are Lisa and John and we run a home DIY blog. In addition to our projects, we also share our adventures in cooking, baking and whatever else comes along.
Mounting Our Cabinet Doors
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- Published on Thursday, 07 March 2013
Authors: John
If you caught our last post, you saw how we made the inset style doors for our built-in. After letting them sit in the clamps for a couple days, I went about mounting the hinge hardware and installing the doors to the face frame. I thought this would be orders of magnitude easier than the first time I tried to install inset doors, w...
How to Make Shaker Style Inset Cabinet Doors
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 March 2013
Authors: John
Well, our built-in doors are done. We’re going with a shaker style inset type door for the bottom cabinet. It’s the same door style as in our first home’s kitchen and is the same style door in all the built-in photos we’ve been pinning. What other options are there besides inset? You can have 3/4 or full o...
New Video: Adding a Center Divider
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- Published on Monday, 04 March 2013
Authors: John
Hey gang! Hope everyone had a great weekend! We made some major headway on our built-in project this past weekend. I’ve got the doors finished and the plywood for the boxes all cut. All I’ve got left to do is machine the plywood with some grooves and dados and we’ll be assembling it. So far so good. I’m de...
How to Make a Picture Frame
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- Published on Friday, 01 March 2013
Authors: John
As promised in Wednesday’s Reclaimed Wood Frame post, I’m going to go into more detail on how I made the wooden frame. This process is really applicable to any wood and not just reclaimed wood, although there is typically a little more upfront effort required for reclaimed lumber. Reclaimed wood may need to be planed d...
Pinterest Challenge: Reclaimed Wood Frame
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Authors: John
Hey everybody! Thanks for stopping by our Pinterest Challenge post! We’re very excited to be sharing with you a project that was a lot of fun for Lisa and I to work on together. If you haven’t been following along lately, we’ve been making built-ins for our sitting room and have been pinning some cool ideas to...
Toddler Proofing Again
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- Published on Thursday, 21 February 2013
Authors: John
Hey guys! Hope you all had a great week. I’m still making progress with our built-ins. I’m working on the doors for the bottom cabinet at the moment. Hoping I can pull off a quick how-to video on the door construction. It’s not terribly hard, but writing an understandable procedure is probably a bigger ch...
Building Face Frames
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Authors: John
Very happy to be building face frames back in the workshop, aka my basement! To bring you up to speed, so far we picked an overall look of the design we want. We then dimensioned the design based on where we’d like it and discussed the whole build process. Next we designed the face frames and now, we’re set to build...
Planning the Face Frames
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- Published on Sunday, 17 February 2013
Authors: John
Another planning post? Yep. We do a lot of planning around here, if you haven’t noticed. I was itching to get started on actually cutting some lumber this weekend for our built-ins, but alas, it will have to wait until tomorrow. I did buy all the poplar I’ll need for face frames though, so expect a post on that very...
Overview of Our Built-In Project
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- Published on Thursday, 14 February 2013
Authors: John
Happy belated Valentine’s Day to everyone in blog land. For the two special ladies in my life, I made lobster rolls for dinner. Lisa handled the dessert and baked a flour-less cake on Wednesday. Needless to say, we ate too much. I ended up going with the lobster tails instead of the whole lobster. I was trying to be econ...
Dressing Up a Hemnes Dresser
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Authors: John
So even though my I’ve already mentally started work on our sitting room built-ins, we obviously aren’t done with our daughter’s bedroom. We still want to add some decor and personalize the room a bit. Lisa has several little projects planned. One of those little upgrades we were able to knock out in about ten mi...
