I managed to get my countertop sanded and get the excess wood cut off of the countertop yesterday.  Know how I did it? I dragged that sucker outside!  All 12 feet of it!  All by myself! You know the saying.  Where there's a will, there's a way.  :-D Actually, that's not the whole story.  Here's how the day actually went. The last picture I showed y'all yesterday looked like this... The countertop was together, and I had … [Read more...]

I decided to make the wood countertop for my built-in bookcase wall before doing any of the painting because I just knew that I'd end up scratching the paint if I did that first. Plus, I think I'll just wait until the upper bookshelves are finished, and then paint the whole thing at the same time. With all of the building, tool usage, and ladder usage to come, the paint would undoubtedly get scratched up if I go ahead and paint the lower cabinets … [Read more...]

Okay, ya'll.  I'm finally making some pretty good headway on my built-in bookcase wall.  Now of course, this isn't completely DIY, since I'm using stock cabinets.  (No need to make cabinets from scratch when Home Depot has pretty inexpensive ones.)  But the key here is that I'm using upper cabinets, that are only 12-inches deep, to create the lower portion of my bookcase wall. To do that, I first needed to build boxes to lift the cabinets … [Read more...]

First of all, thank you so much for all of your input yesterday (and this morning) on my built-in cabinets and bookshelf wall in my living room!!  Seriously, y'all are awesome!!  I read every single comment, and mulled over your suggestions, and they were very helpful! Poor Version 2 only got two votes.  :) I had to laugh at one commenter who said that the cabinets in that one looked like faces.  Haha!!  I didn't see it before, but … [Read more...]