Day Six-twenty-two: more kitchen fun

We did a second day of work on the kitchen and made solid progress on all fronts.

When you put the last pieces in at 9pm as we did yesterday, the chances of making little mistakes and eyesores goes up quite a bit. Our first step in correcting those gaffes--which mostly consisted of pieces out of alignment--was to plaster all the seams like so.

Then came a thorough sanding--to smooth the bare wood and more importantly to level all the surfaces.

The power sanders did a nice job, making nearly everything into a smooth surface, including this juncture.

With all that done we put a coat of flat white paint on as a primer. An added bonus is that the paint allows us to see where the remaining flaws are that we will need to touch up with a little more spackle.

Meanwhile the new doors got their first coat of paint, also flat while serving as a primer.

Finally, we had a little time in the past few weeks to do a fun project--transforming a few pieces of cypress decking into a little ornamental box. The bottom is a trapezoid mitered at 45 degrees on all four sides and the sides are mitered to sit on the base and at 45 degrees with each other. Some sanding, a couple coats of paint, and a couple coats of Bona Mega to seal and protect the paint and there you go!