Kitchen workstation

[chippy1970]

Just a few pics of my latest project. It's an addition to an existing kitchen, built to house a fancy cooking/blender gizmo called a Thermomix.

Just putting the drawers in today, I was short two boxes so have to go back and finish the left hand section tomorrow. Carcasses are mfc in crema and all fronts are painted 22 mm Mr mdf with 6 mm panels. I don't often get involved in supplying painted stuff but this time I've got my own painter in and I'm supplying a finished job. It's a nice change as I don't often see my work painted/finished.

The wall unit needs painting in-situ and all the base needs a final coat. Dovetail drawer boxes were bought in from a helpful forum member who works at Isaac lords , cheers Paul.

You might spot my new bessey clamps I treated myself to ,should have bought some years ago

Excuse the quality of the photos they were just quickie phone photos. Luckily enough the client is a photographer so I might get a few better ones when its finished.

Oh there's a fancy extractor going up too to the left of the wall unit.

 

[petermillard]

Very nice Chris; much more satisfying to deliver a finished job IHMO. Was it hand-painted or sprayed?

Pete

 

[chippy1970]

Thanks Pete I looked at spraying but the first quote I got was ridiculous. Then I found out that the original kitchen was hand painted anyway so I ended up using a decorator that has painted a few of my jobs. It's actually the first time I've met him :lol: , he's recommended me for jobs and he's also been in after I've left jobs but this is the first time I've got to meet him.

The bases have to have one more coat and obviously the wall unit needs painting still.

 

[chippy1970]

A few pics from today the plinth is still raw mdf and will be painted the same colour as everything else. The plinth is one piece with mitred and dominoed corners

Router table and one of the set of cutters used to make the fronts

 

[longinthetooth]

Did you make the router table (that's not a silly question)?

 

[No skills]

Unit looks good, what did you edge the mfc with?

Seems to be a theme with people wanting things sprayed but the prices being stupid. Might be a niche there.

 

[chippy1970]

Unit looks good, what did you edge the mfc with?

Seems to be a theme with people wanting things sprayed but the prices being stupid. Might be a niche there.

My supplier edges everything for me , its just the usual 0.4 mm edging they do thicker 2 mm as well which you can have rounded if you want.

 

[chippy1970]

Did you make the router table (that's not a silly question)?

Yeah I built it, there's a thread on it here somewhere its never been fully finished :lol: I just whacked an mdf box on it quickly the other day so i could use it for this job, before that it had no support it was just a router table top that I made years ago.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Ive built quite a few mdf shaker style panel doors which Ive painted myself.

Ive experiemented with brush, roller and spray. In my view after all this I would conclude the following:

- Brushing is the most time consuming but gives a very "warm" hand made feel to the finish. Must be done competently or there's no end of trouble
- Rolling (with a mini roller foam pad was the best) was actually surprisingly good. Very fast, very flat finish and by using the edge you easily get paint into the corners of the panels. Now my preferred approach for the finish (satin style) coats
- spraying is really quick and really flat but huge gyp to setup...hence everyone outsources it and then the cost spirals. I only spray in the summer now when I can do it outside....even then only works when the wind is sufficiently low, not raining etc (so as you can imagine I haven't done it since 1976!!!). However, if posible I do spray the primer coat on, its incredibly fast. I'll give you a tip too....ask your painters merchant to mix the Dulux/F&B/Sikkens etc colour into the primer mix as well as the top coat. Then your water based primer is already the right colour instead of white....makes better coverage. They're not strictly meant to do it....but the decent ones will

But for the satin or gloss top coats....the mini roller works a treat...I'll dig out an oak top cabinet I made using that technique in a tick.

To spray properly of course....its extractor booth building time...space....time...money...ouch.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Here's those pics I promised. I've not done a WIP on this. The oak top was AWO with bread board ends (its two pieces joined in the middle because this sideboard is over 2m long)

 

[chippy1970]

Yeah I've had success with the foam rollers doing stuff for myself. I never paint stuff for customers I use a painter I know who's pretty good, he's round there tomorrow to finish all the painting.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Very wise my friend

 

[chippy1970]

Painter has finished now and I've been back and fitted the extractor after getting a roofer in to fit a pipe to the pitched roof above.

A few more pics but the extractor wasn't up when I took these. On the home straight now , I've also been busy building some bookcases in another room.

 

[chippy1970]

All finished, the customer is a photographer so wanted to get this photo of me standing next to my work :lol: if id known I would have had a shave and dressed up :lol:

 

[chippy1970]

Here's the Thermomix gadget that this whole thing was built for.

 

[No skills]

The units turned out well, cant you get them to change the door to the right of it - doesn't fit in

 

[chippy1970]

The units turned out well, cant you get them to change the door to the right of it - doesn't fit in

Ah that's where you're wrong :grin:

The end panels are vee grooved and match the doors they're even the exact same colour.

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[No skills]

No, the other door