Justin and I have had distinct roles in this remodel: He is the detail guy and visionary, I am the grunt labor and accountant. Needless to say, I'm envious of his side of the bargain. The problem is, I simply don't have the skills (yet) to do much of what he does, and a remodel of this scale is not the place to practice. Thus I'm self-regulated to lugging, recycling, cleaning, feeding, managing and the like. I should note that Justin is always most encouraging of me and my attempts to master any new skill.
Above is a shot of my first foray into the realm of detail work. I had a template which was surprisingly unhelpful as the holes were far larger than the drill bit. I still had to choose where in the hole (i.e. upper right quadrant) I was going to drill and draw a dot to guide me. I was, in fact, so hyper-focused in my attempts to get everything just right (as Justin always seems to) that I had forgotten that we'd agreed that we were going to position all of the handles horizontally, and inadvertently drilled the first door holes vertically. It ended up for the better as we realized that the vertical handles on doors (we'll still do horizontal on drawers) allow for maximum opening of the upper cabinets.
The design of the drawer pulls is found in many other areas of our house, notably light fixtures. We chose these as they were both geometric and simple. And on sale.
- 6/27 :: Daniel adds : We used almost identical pulls in our kitchen - with vertical alignment for the cabinet doors and horizontal for the drawers. I made a template out of a spare piece of 1x4. The best thing to do is to make sure to CLAMP the template down - also, put blue tape on the cabinet door back (always drill front to back) to keep the drill bit from splintering the back of your cabinets.
- 6/28 :: Hannah adds : i'm so proud of you!
