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Kitchen - My shaker style experience
Hi Seb,
I went down this rabbit hole about 18 months ago and reckon I did it for about $25k - about 1/2 of which was expensive appliances.
1. Cabinets - I found a local kitchen guy, with a CNC. I provided the exact dimensions of the cabinets and he cut them out flat pack on his CNC. This price was about 8-9K for a large kitchen and comparible to IKEA in price, but way better quality. This included heaps of wide soft close drawers and was mm perfect. There are about 22 drawers!
2. Drawer/door fronts - I bought a shaker router bit set from McJing and used DAR Tassie oak and marine ply. More expensive than MDf, but better in moisture. Then I sprayed them with with satin oil based enamel using a cheap HVLP spray gun.
This was a perfect excuse to pick up a drum sander, to quickly sand the doors which saved a heap of time. Never pass up the chance to get another tool :)
3. The bench top was timber slabs from a tree we cut down in the front yard and got slabbed by a guy with a lucas mill. This took the most work
Plan to do the job at a time when you can live without the kitchen. We chose summer and did everything on the BBQ
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Hope this helps