Day Six-thirty-six: well this is a pickle, part three

With the framing in place it was time to get down to business.

First we installed a ledger board to keep the cabinet level and to provide a little support as we held it up.

Next we needed to patch the big hole that we had cut. Here's where saving the piece of drywall came in handy. We marked where the new studs were and had the drywall in place in a jif. A little spackle/compound to close the seam and we were all good.

Identifying where to put the screws through the cabinet took a bit of calculating because we wanted to ensure that they'd go into the framing we went to all this trouble to install. We planned to put a few screws through the top crossbar, a couple down the left side (the cabinet's too narrow to reach the right side), and a couple in the middle crossbar. The last one needed a touch more prep work because the plywood back was raised, so our screws would have pulled it back toward the wall. Nothing a little shim couldn't handle.

With all of our holes predrilled, we needed to get it in place. We set the cabinet on the ledger board and both of us held it while we drove the screws home with our power screwdriver. (The blue tape marked where the framing studs were.)

Then came the corner shelf, which we attached to the wall and to the side of the cabinet to keep both pieces in sync.

And that concludes our adventure in cabinetry.