Thread: Found a bit of timber on the nature strip

YDW Mick

You done well

Gawd damm, bloody hell Mick!!!!

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I HATE YOU!!! (not really! )

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

Boban,
doing something a bit different, going to framed door, but instead of a raised panel am fitting perforated SS sheeting. I love timber but too much can lessen its visual impact. The kitchen will be a contrast of down to earth timber looks against the modern looking SS tops and panels, dark timber against SS and white lamipanel (splashbacks). Not going to fame the cabinet faces as I don't like the look (cluttered rather than clean) plus it narrows your openings. I'm a "form follows function" minimal type of designer/builder.

Mick

That sound real nice.

I've actually got a roll of the SS sheet you are talking about, and it does look real good, but like anything, too much of it and it may lose it's effect as well. The ones I've seen have used it on the top cupboards, but I'm interested to see the whole kitchen done in it.

I'm with you on the minimalist look. I actually prefer a flat panel insert to the raised panel. The framed cabinets don't appeal to me either, but I have to do one soon in my mates horse float/motorhome truck because you get so much more play in the doors when they sit on top of the cabinet faces.

Might be something for a WIP Mick.

Originally Posted by boban

...................Might be something for a WIP Mick.

Ummmm, it's actually been a WWP (Work Without Progress) for about the last year and a half. But I'l try to remember to take some piccies when I do get stuck into it again. Progress/timeline so far:

5 years ago, score Brown Salwood log 8M long .6m dia
4 years ago get it milled up
2.5 years ago buy the hardwood ply for the carcasse
2 years ago buy two sheets of perforated SS sheetmetal
1.5 years ago machine all the timber for the doors

Then in the meantime it's been make money to buy full size panel saw (BTW thanks again for sussing it out for me, I think about you every time I fire it up), buy and tinker with edgebander and buy and set up hinge borer/inserter. (You wouldn't expect me to hand build my kitchen now would you? [shudder])

Major,
you'll have to come and check out the rest of my timber stash, about 5 or 6 M3 of silky oak (both flavours), salwood, bunya pine, hoop pine and a smattering of others, most of it from salvaged logs. Then there's about 2 cubes of timber either scabbed off jobs (leftovers or rubbish piles) and a couple of lots that cost me a carton each. There's red cedar, NG rosewood, yellow walnut, silver ash, white beech, oak- brown, red and silky, tulip oak, Queensland Maple and a few other bits and pieces. When are you going to start on the voodoo doll of me to stick those flaming splinters into?


Mick

Now I hate you too.

You're worse than me, only with better quality timber.

Originally Posted by boban

Now I hate you too.

You're worse than me, only with better quality timber.

But I don't have a backhoe like you (yet )

Mick

Excellent rescue Mick. Like the sound of your design with the perforated SS, should go well with the bench tops and modfern design appliances.