My kitchen installation continues

I’ve been quiet for the last few days for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean that things have come to a complete stop in the house. Firstly, I completed the housing for the dishwasher. This was a cause of some relief for me because although you try to measure and build everything accurately, you can never know until the appliance, on this occasion the dishwasher, is properly in place with all of its connections made. And it looks great too 🙂

For the last three days or so I’ve been working on building a custom shelving unit to go in the space created by the angle between the floor mounted cabinets. My original intention was just to box it in completely but it occurred to me that some kind of storage unit would be a much better use of the space. It’s been a tedious, painstaking process which would have been been easier if I had access to proper woodworking machinery, but I just have to do the best that I can with my basic hand tools.

Here’s a shot of the basic structure. It looks simple but believe me, it’s much more complex than it looks and every cut has had to be accurately done to measure.

Here’s where I got to by early this evening. Unfortunately I’ve got to remake the front panel because although I thought I’d judged them correctly, the securing screws I used were a fraction too long and have just blown through the front surface.

This may be a blessing in disguise actually because due to the poor quality of the board, its white surface has broken away very badly along its cut edges and when I remake it tomorrow I think I’ll be able to do a lot better.