Kitchen Project! This is my kitchen project from the summer of 2006. I bought 500 FB of random width black walnut, a similar amount of hard maple, both straight grain and fiddle back, 20 sheets of 3/4 birch plywood, 2 gallons of glue and 2000 pocket screws. Etc, etc, etc.....

I made these cabinets myself in my wood-shop. I installed them as well, although I had professionals install the granite tops.

These pics include close ups of the Kreg pocket screw system I used. This thing is great, not a dado in the whole project!

I built all the white woodwork as well including the columns, bookshelves and island. I had to cut all the base and toe mouldings as I could not find this profile at the lumber yards to match the existing mouldings in the house.

The butcher block top I made as well. The commercially available "Boos" tops were only 1.75 inches thick and I wanted 2.25 inches thick, so I built it out of rock maple with 200 biscuit joints. The sink is inletted to 1.75 inches.

The pull outs are for trash cans, baking pans, spice rack and the mixer.

The sink is some weird English sink my wife wanted. It's all ceramic, not cast iron, and weighs a ton!

The glass doors' muntins were hard to make.

the little desk is inlayed fiddleback maple.

This turned out to be a huge project, much bigger than I anticipated. .