Cabinets & Furniture

Crown Mouldings on Varying Cabinet Heights

Cabinet crown mouldings are the finishing touch for a kitchen renovation but you need to plan for them early in the project. Once the cabinets are bought (or built) and installed your options are limited to the situation you have in front of you. Using cabinets of varying heights or "landscaping" as we call it, [...]

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Stonehaven Washstand Vanity – Woodworking Plans

This 40” x 24” pine vanity has the look and charm of an old-fashioned washstand that would have had held a ceramic water pitcher and a washbowl for cleaning up in the pre-plumbing days. It features six functional slab drawers and a recessed panel door, inset in a narrow pine face frame. The exposed “ladder [...]

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Cabinets – Frame or Frameless?

When planning and designing kitchens, one of the most basic questions relates to the style and look of the cabinets. Traditional style cabinets have face frames while contemporary or "European style" cabinets are essentially frameless. There are also variations with each style that serve to define the room to suit your taste and budget. And [...]

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How to Make Cabinet Toe Kicks

Level floors are a rare thing… even in new homes. You might not even notice how badly a floor slopes until you start installing base cabinets – and discover that the dishwasher won’t fit under the countertop or that you need a 1″ stack of shims at the end of the cabinet run. While this [...]

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Unique Cabinet with Wooden Hinges

Just surfin’ the interwebs and came across this beautiful cabinet made by Al Navas, Co-Owner of Sandal Woods Fine Woodworking. It’s made of Black Walnut and Curly Maple. The figuring of the maple is downright gorgeous! I don’t know if I’ll ever get to the level to attempt a project like this, but I truly [...]

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5 Ways to Re-use Cabinet Doors

I can tell you from working in the cabinet business, there is certainly no shortage of used cabinet doors in all shapes and sizes. While some may look a bit dated in the kitchen, those same doors can look just great in another context. Repurposing doors, mouldings and other building materials saves money, and keeps [...]

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How to Scribe Cabinets to Walls

In a perfect world, walls would flat and plumb. In the real world they rarely are. To get a good fit between a cabinet and the wall, without gaps, you need to scribe it to the contour of the wall. This sounds harder than it really is. With a bit of planning when you’re building [...]

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8 Wood Glue Squeeze-Out Tips

In preparation for gluing up some joints, I decided to see what the general consensus was on dealing with the "squeeze-out" that can ruin the final finish if not handled correctly. After checking out a number of woodworking forums and web sites, I boiled it down to this list of 8 tips, including 2 that [...]

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Cabinet Crown Moulding Tips

A lot of DIY homeowners get their cabinets installed and then run up against the question of how to attach crown moulding to the cabinetry. I deal with crown mouldings every day, when I’m designing cabinets for kitchens, baths and other rooms for a local custom cabinet shop. The best time to think about crown [...]

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How to Make Stopped Chamfers

The stopped chamfer is an elegant and easy-to-make detail, commonly used on furniture, cabinets, railing balusters and posts. Stopped chamfers are fast and easy to make using a table-mounted router with a 45 degree chamfering bit, especially if you need several identical pieces. In this example, the goal is to mill 1/4” wide stopped chamfers [...]