Sink cabinet installed.

The sink cabinet was installed last week. This was a little tricky because the cabinet had to be coped into the baseboard. Here is a picture of the portion that is coped around the baseboard and trim.

Next up was to glue the cabinet in place with a bead of silicone adhesive.

After this was set it was time to work on fitting the doors and the toilet paper holder to the side.

Feet for the sink cabinet

 Last night we glued up and cut out the feet for the unit. The original foot design had a curve to them but these were constructed with straight sides for ease of manufacturing. They are attached with a screw that is located down a long hole on the bottom of each foot. The leg that is in the corner of the unit has a thin veneer on one of its visible faces to give it the quarter-sawn fir look.

Kristen took the opportunity to put one more coat of paint on the whole unit.

This is what it will look like when it is turned over right side up.

Finishing up downstairs bathroom

Now that the windows are in and sealed we took a slight detour on working on the trim and worked on finishing up the downstairs bathroom. We had built a plywood temporary sink unit in there until the real one could be designed and built. Last week we finished up the design shown in the picture below.

  

The unit is going to be built of fir and just  urethaned so it is a little slower going and harder to work than the usual popular. Here is a picture of the front panel of the unit getting glued up and pocket screwed.

 And the doors getting built up. The center panel in the door is a 1/4" veneer grade fir plywood.

Here is the bottom of the unit. It is cabinet grade plywood with edges of fir. It is a little hard to tell but the fir is routed into a large bead profile along the whole edge.

The front panel around the doors gets a bead detail glued in place.

The front panel gets glued to the two sides and the bottom gets screwed in place

The top of the unit is cut to allow the bowl of the sink to fall into place. Here you can see a dryfit of the sink on top of the unit.

 The unit is put in place and the profile of the wall was marked on the back.

 Here is the profile of where the baseboard is interfaced after being cut. 

Kristen put the first coat of urethane on the unit and doors. The doors have to be fit and hinges installed then it will be complete.

Downstairs Bathroom

We started to look at the layout for the downstairs bathroom. Kristen ripped out the linoleum and drew out the future placement of the plumbing and fixtures. Who knows when we'll make any progress but we're thinking about it at least...