Day Six-forty-five: kitchen (cont.)

We'll start where we left off last time, with a picture of the structural/stabilization work we did on the cabinets to keep the two pieces together. Here's a look at the 1/2-inch piece we used to fill the gap between the sides of the cabinet.

And here are the four screws holding that board in place (they're the small silver dots toward the top and bottom--pretty inconspicuous).

Elsewhere we sanded off all the paint from this cabinet. Nothing that several hours with the orbital sander couldn't handle. We were very happy that we took this down to work on because it would have been quite a chore to stand on a step stool or bench for those same hours.

We took advantage of the cabinet being down to make sure there was nothing amiss--mold, whatever--behind the wall, so we cut out a small piece and found no surprises.

Lest you think we only take things apart, we also made good strides getting the doors and drawer fronts ready to install. The doors got their final coats of paint.

And the drawer fronts and shelves (the long pieces) got their final coats of Bona Mega, so they're done and ready to install.