Trimming Hedges

Our hedges out front were looking scraggly and in need of some attention. Kristen loves to trim them so for her birthday, Tyler got her an electric trimmer. It was fun to use and quick. Some selective hand trimming still needed to be done but it made the whole process much faster.

Fitting the cabinet and dishwasher fronts

We worked last weekend on fitting some of the cabinet doors and the front to the dishwasher. The first picture shows the cabinet doors fit on the unit to the left of the sink, you can also see the cabinet base has been milled and cut. it still needs some sanding and paint but it is getting closer.

Next up came the fitting of the panels to the front of the dishwasher. After a little bit of trim work the panel was held in place with some clamps. Small wood blocks were inserted into the space to give some material for the screws to get into.

Screws were then used to attach it to the front of the dishwasher. There will be side pieces that will be attached and cover the blocks to close out each side.

This is what it looks like from the front. Next up will be getting the baseboard around the whole thing which will be a little challenge.

New Furniture

Kristen and I found a local place that has some great furniture so we bought a couple of pieces to put around the house. The nice thing about all of it is that it is solid mahogany. That also means that we had to get our neighbor to help move the large cabinet in. Even when it was split in two pieces, I think each weighed around 150 lbs. The large cabinet unit was put in the office along the wall which meant that we had to put in the baseboard there first.

Here the unit is all installed and filled up with books!

We also pickup up a small table for the front hall (and the bench behind it)

And a night stand and lamp for the bedroom.

Door fronts for the sink Cabinet

We worked over the Memorial Day extended weekend on building up cabinet doors for the front of the sink cabinet. First we cut all of the frames with the panel bits.

This is what they look like dry fit.

Then the center panels were all cut and everything was glued into place.

All of the doors still need to be fine tuned to fit the cabinets but it was a good time to get some paint on them.

Next came the frame for the front of the dishwasher. 

Once the panels were cut that was glued up as well. This one will take quite a bit of work to get it attached and looking good.

Outside Update

It is still quite cold out but we were able to get the trim on the new windows completed, caulked and painted.

We have gotten the garden all planted as well. Things are still coming up quite slow because of the weather. The first bed has chives, lettuce, leeks, onions, one garlic clove that was missed and some pole beans that seem to be dieing. The second bed has beans, peas and carrots.