Wibraham, MA Kitchen
Student Team:
Mike Coyle, Paul Marion, Ryan Reid, Laurie Taylor
Specs:
- Open kitchen with free-standing island
- Pre-finished maple cabinet interiors with hard maple exterior
- Shaker-style flat panel doors and drawer fronts
- Solid maple dovetailed drawer boxes with Blum undermount soft-close drawer slides
- Blum European hinges with integrated soft close
- Face frame construction; no intermediate stiles or rails.
- Larger island, with curved front, contains pullout three bin recycling, four drawers, two pullout pantry units (one concealed in side panel), and a wine rack with storage for 12 bottles
- 30" wide apron front sink with an odorless pullout waste container under the sink.
- Small corner storage cabinet
- Laundry and storage cabinet on the adjoining porch
Status (as of April 4th, 2012):
- Design phase complete
- All carcasses completed and face frames finished and attached.
- Most doors and drawer fronts assembled, with some fitted.
- All drawers are built.
- Island nearly complete.
- Laundry cabinet nearly complete.
Watch the team's progress:
The customer's current kitchen is open, but the cabinets are dated. The new kitchen will use the same layout and feature a new, larger island with more storage.
The new cabinets on the range wall will go up to the ceiling with a cove molding detail at the top. The microwave will be moved higher to give more work space.
A bank of drawers will be added on the left of the sink. The new sink will be an apron front
The team working on the design of the kitchen using AutoCAD. Clockwise from left: Taylor, Ryan, Mike, and Paul.
Setting the ladder bases that the cabinets will rest on. Taylor is making sure they are level.
Ryan is working on the island cabinet carcass which includes a built in wine rack.
The carcasses for the range wall are complete and ready for face frames.
The group got to show off their progress to their customers.
Taylor working on face frame assembly for the sink wall cabinets.
The bones of the kitchen island are going together for Ryan.
Mike is gluing the face frame and side panels on the range wall upper cabinets.
Getting ready to glue the curved front onto the island.
Paul and Taylor at work.
Face frames and side panels are on the range wall cabinets.
The nearly completed kitchen island.