Day Six-o-eight: kitchen continued

As promised (threatened) we continued to forge ahead on the kitchen today and made some decent progress until we hit a snag.

Everything that will be installed got their final coats of paint. It might be hard to see in these pictures but the new color is a light shade of green that will go great with our green countertop.

The snag is that the paint shows marks really easily. What to do considering we won't want to go through all of this effort only to have a dingy looking kitchen in a day? We decided to add a step--to seal the fronts of the cabinets, shelves, etc. with a coat of a low-gloss version of what we put on the wood floors and stairs. That should give it a nice durable finish without making the whole thing too shiny.

Back up stairs we tested the concept of our inset idea on the cabinet that we sanded yesterday. For those of you attempting the home version, here's what a normal drawer looks like.

And here's what the slide looks like for that standard drawer. You can see that the hardware comes all the way to the front of the cabinet.

Step one of the conversion was to trim off 3/4 inches off the metal slides so that they'd fit further back into their brackets. Here's what the slide looks like at first.

And here's how much we cut off, just enough to slide it further back but still sit in the bracket at the back of the cabinet.

Here's the bracket.

With that done we needed to secure the front part of the slide, which is now 3/4 of an inch behind the face of the cabinet. This way the drawer can slide further back than it used to, to accommodate the new drawer front.

Here's the interim result. Once we have the new front finished (with the low-gloss sealer) we can attach it and we'll have one drawer done.