Day Six-twenty-one: shelving

So about 15 months ago we completed the lower cabinetry in the kitchen by building an angled shelf to connect two parts. While we like and use the shelf, the dowel rod supports never quite fit and especially won't now that we're converting to a more traditional farmhouse style kitchen. If you've been following along on this trek with us what do you think we did next? Yep, we replaced the dowels.

So here's a refresher and what we started with this morning. Not horrible, just not right.

We started by squaring off the shelf. When we made this last year we didn't have anything beyond a circular saw and jigsaw so we made the shelves too narrow.

Fortunately when we trimmed down the poplar boards that will be the new supports we created some long, narrow strips that we mitered to fill the gaps.

A little Elmer's wood glue and a couple small finishing nails and this part of the project turned out well.

With the shelves all set we turned to installing new supports. Here we've removed the ones on the left.

And here is the (glue drying) final result.

Tomorrow we'll use caulk or spackle to fill any gaps and level things out before sanding. Once that's done one whole side of the kitchen will be ready for painting.