Downstairs karzy... finished

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Lee J

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This will seem relatively simple to some of you but there was a bit of wood working involved and the use of some nice oak planks. Anyway, I'm proud of the finished results so I wanna show it off.

The Plan (as submitted by the wife) - replace this old sink with a new glass one and I want a cupboard too. Oh and can you make the boxed bit look a bit nicer?

Old sink...

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Here we go...

After fitting a new radiator I built a cupboard using a B & Q carcase I had bought.
I cut up some oak, smoothed and shaped it to fit the boxed sections.

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Here's the cupboard with the boxed sections fitted, cupboard built and the oak top cut to size, not fixed at this point.

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I had initially cut the cupboard doors from some MDF sheet, primer them and painted them but when I fitted them they looked rubbish. They cheapened the whole look. I had some offcuts of the oak so I set about making some doors. I wanted to do those 'frame' style doors. I used oak for the frames and the painted MDF for the inserts. The result?

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Now look how good they look...

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fitted the oak top, fitted the basin and tap, did the plumbing and a bit of oak quadrant around the floor edge.

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All in all it was a steady job that gain me many points.
 
I liked the old one! Only joking, nice job I like it. If I had made that I would of course needed to purchase a new tool to do a top notch job, that's how I've built up my tool collection.

Stew
 
Possibly from Italian casa (“house”), via 1870s Cockney word carsey.[1]

Or a contraction of "Gazebo"

Possibly from an African language (Zulu or Swahili are often cited) word "M'khazi" meaning a latrine
 
DIY Stew":5uwdinc6 said:
I liked the old one! Only joking, nice job I like it. If I had made that I would of course needed to purchase a new tool to do a top notch job, that's how I've built up my tool collection.

Stew

Stew, I had to purchase a 40mm Forstner bit but they only come in sets now adays, can't buy them single anymore :wink:
 
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