{"id":22264,"date":"2023-10-25T23:08:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22264"},"modified":"2023-10-25T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:09:28","slug":"coming-along-nicely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/coming-along-nicely\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming along nicely"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ikea Pax unit in bedroom one that is. I’m not rushing things because the two units for bedrooms one and two have cost a lot of money and I don’t want to make any mistakes. I also want them to look good when I’ve finished.<\/p>\n

Today I got all three of the cabinets in bedroom one fully installed and permanently fitted in place. I was extremely lucky because they went in with no gaps at either end and look as though I must have made the alcove in which they’re fitted to the exact width to take them. But I didn’t. It was a lucky accident.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned previously, I raised them by 2.5cm so I can fit the wall plinth from the floor across their fronts to match the rest of the room. I did this by laying two lengths of timber on the floor inside the alcove below the fronts and backs of the units.<\/p>\n

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The chance of the timber moving in the future was minimal unless there’s an earthquake but I made sure that couldn’t happen by attaching it with brackets to the backs and fronts of the units. These will not be seen as they’ll be under each cabinet’s floor.<\/p>\n

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All three cabinets have been firmly fixed back to the wall so they can’t try to topple when their doors are opened. They have also been joined together in the same way as my kitchen cabinets were using the special screw-together joiners that Ikea provided with each cabinet. Here’s how they looked at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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The next tasks will be to fix a fill-in panel between the cabinet tops and the ceiling to which I’ll be able to attach coving, together with the floor plinth. Then it’ll just be a matter of painting the room, fitting out the cabinets and adding the doors to complete the bedroom and make it useable. Then on to bedroom two to do it all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ikea Pax unit in bedroom one that is. I’m not rushing things because the two units for bedrooms one and two have cost a lot of money and I don’t want to make any mistakes. I also want them to look good when I’ve finished. Today I got all three of the cabinets in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22264"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22274,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264\/revisions\/22274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}