I hung the doors on the painted yucky cabinets. It looks nice, the color is great, just up close it’s too ridgy, and a few spots got mussed up in the hanging anyhow, so it’s best that I have to re-do some of it in the first place.
The cabinets originally had the doors hung differently. They are four doors, and were hung with the opening side facing in this order:
Right, Right, Left, Left
The upper cabinets that originally were above them are the same, but the doors are taller and have the catherdral routing in them. The lower cabinets that I’ve been working on have smaller doors and they have a plain routing around the door, in both upper and lower it’s an inch or inch-and-a-half inside from the edge. Both upper and lower were hung in that order.
I didn’t like it. Some years ago I changed the upper doors to face this way:
Right, Left, Right, Left
That made more visual and usage sense to me.
I hadn’t changed the bottom ones, or if I had I can’t recall … I took the doors off the lower cabinets so long ago now it seems, and I really don’t know since I painted the face of the cabinet then too. In the paint you can see the outline and holes of the old hinge positions. I saw none in the middle where there would have been some if I had changed the positions before. I can see that I wouldn’t have changed them back when I did the others since they are lower doors … not as noticeable and all that. In the place the cabinet sits now they are more prominent and that makes it noticeable that they hang a certain way or a different way. I saw immediately when I went to hang them that they truly belonged Right, Left, Right, Left. I only have two drawer fronts finished and with those two drawers installed, one can see the beauty that is beginning to show. The old countertop sits on the cabinet … just sits there, not installed anymore. It looks ugly now. It doesn’t go with the butter yellow cabinets and weathered wrought iron hardware!
I’ll get the other two drawers done today and then take a photo of the outside of the cabinet section at least. Ignore the junk on top of the counter if I post the picture here, where I most likely will do so.
I have to also put all the stuff inside so that we can get the other side of the kitchen cleared up. We’ll be taking the upper cabinets down too maybe and moving them to sit atop the counter of the lower cabinets for now. We have that new/old fridge coming tomorrow, so HAVE to make room 🙂
I’m ok with the re-do of the paint on the cabinets I’ve done so far. I have the right stuff for the re-do now, just need to do a few go-overs in a couple of grits of sandpaper and then a new coat of paint with the little cute rollers, but not for 7- 10 days. It’s just a wait to do it, and then I can fix all the little things that I have to and want to. 🙂
With the upper cabinets down on the counter top it’ll make it easier to work on them too (rather than have them on the floor).
So I have to go to work and move all that stuff now! Pictures here later!
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We took down the upper cabinets last night and they are now on top of the lower cabinets on the countertop. The doors are not on them … we took them off to get the cabinets down and I won’t put them back on until they are painted and the new hardware installed. I realized also yesterday that I’d only ordered pairs of hinges for those doors, and that those doors don’t use pairs, but three hinges … they are such long doors. I somehow neglected to notice the third hinge on those four doors. Oh well. So I have to wait to install them until we order more hardware and that won’t be until we know how much more we need. Maybe we can find a store to order it from locally that would be as cheap as ordering online, sans shipping, but then again, maybe not. If we can find the hinges that way, we can buy the extra ones we need for these upper cabinets at least, otherwise the shipping is kind of too much to deal with since we messed up alread before ordering the wrong hinge style. 🙁 I can hardly believe I’ve made this many mistakes with the hardware. Nothing I can do about it now but wait until we can get some more.
So then, the cabinets sit there and make the whole thing look sort of like a hutch on top of a base. It’ll look good too though once painted and decked out in hardare and all the doors on and hung up on the wall. The direction they sit facing is just so perfect for looking at and noticing them, that’s why the four sets of doors and drawers on the bottom just look so nice. It’s a nice looking setup, with 25-inches on each side if it’s centered in that 120-inch space.
The wall is now empty where the cabinets once were installed, and we tore down the drywall floor to ceiling in two 16-inches on center stud areas, so it’s like a 32-inch doorway nearly, with a stud in the middle of it. We do think it’s not a load bearing wall, so we can remove all that wall, but the way the house is constructed the attic is on the other side of the top lumber, whatever that piece is called … that’s loose-fill insulation on the other side. The kitchen ceiling is flat and goes right up to that lumber edge, and on the other side of the lumber is the livingroom/dining room ceiling which is cathedral vaulted and so removing that wood from the wall structure would mean we have to dry wall a space that’s flat and then a small piece that angles to meet the cathedral vault edge. It’s weird. Anyhow, we may or maynot remove it all. Maybe we’ll do something more decorative instead. We may do columns and an arched doorway there, near the garage door and into the dining room area right by the fireplace. The interior L-shaped counter will end right about there, so we don’t know how we’ll make that look.
Worst case we have to put in a beam or header and decorative beam … or we can implement that as purely decorative on purpose … we may be able to introduce decorative beams running the opposite direction in the kitchen, just to fill out the look. It’s all “up in the air” right now. We just have to verify that the Trusse system in our attic is definitely a system and is holding up the house and the exterior walls are the only load-bearing ones in the house. If that’s true, then we are not limited, but can use anything we come up with to change that space.