Day Six-forty-two: another day, another cabinet

Tying up loose ends, after we installed the new cabinet we had to put it through its paces. Here's an "action" photo. So far so good.

With that part of the project complete we turned our attention to the already existing upper cabinet, which is in need of sanding and repainting with the new color. Here's what we started with.

Since this was already in the right place and at the right height, we decided to do a reverse ledger board and installed it flush with the bottom of the cabinet so we could put it back the way we found it.

Then it was an easy matter of removing the six holding screws. We opted to take this down to work on it because it'll make sanding and painting a lot more convenient if we can have the cabinet on the ground.

These are actually two cabinets. The large one has the two big doors and the small one has (no surprise) the one small door. They were attached by a couple of screws through the frame but because we'll be moving them around a lot we wanted to secure them together better. So we slid a piece of 1/2-inch plywood between the cabinets to fill a space and drove a few screws through it. Now we can confidently manipulate the whole unit without fear of the smaller part breaking off. Tomorrow's a sanding day.