Kitchen …
actually .. I’m not. Hate installing white (or off white as this one may be) kitchens.
spent last 2 Fri’s helping out a buddy. Got to carry lotsa vanities up way too many stairs … nothing much to take pics of .. just a bunch of off white vanities …
Here’s some of the kitchen. this past Fri I spent the afternoon running all the euro-crown. The island will be more exciting after he dresses it up with some applied trim moldings.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
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You know Jeff, I've always said this and I'll say it again ,you do nice work,for a republican.Vince Carbone
Jeff, very nice Kitchen indeed. I'm going to suggest that you get your eyes checked for colorblindness though, cause that island ain't white!
blueJust because you can, doesn't mean you should!
Warning! Be cautious when taking any framing advice from me. There are some in here who think I'm a hackmeister...they might be right! Of course, they might be wrong too!
oooh.... i like white kitchens..Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Jeff: I would consider your work very upper end. Always lots of detail and very well done. Your workmanship shows.
Stan
Edited 3/15/2005 6:51 am ET by Stan Foster
"Jeff: I would consider your work very upper end. Always lots of detail and very well done. Your workmanship shows."
Youre gonna ruin him and then what are we gonna do with him? I mean its Jeff as it is already. <G>
Tim Mooney
white is right
Jeff,
Were the undersides of those cabinets finished? The job I did back before the Holidays, the bottoms were maple thermo-foil - had to spray them ourselves.
Later, got to meet the factory touch-up man. He said "Throw that wax stick away." Turned us on to some aerosol canned lacquer he uses.
6 16 17 97 99
How about more info on that canned aerosol?
Info is out of town for a couple days. All I remember is it was a cabinetmaker's supply place.6 16 17 97 99
Dustin, paint stores, even Home Depot, sell an aerosol can with a small glass jar you can fill with your own lacquer.
Jeff, nice work!
Mike
Thanks Mike-that's good to know. I never noticed them in the Home Depot, but never really looked
Dustin, here's a link on that touchup sprayer: http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=173
Mike
Gotta give credit to my "other buddy Jeff" ...
this is one of his kitchens. I just came in coupla Fri's ago to help hump the big vanities up stairs .... then went in last Fri and he was dumb enough to ask what I wanted to do in the afternoon after we'd finished up setting the rest of the cabs together ... so I picked running crown.
I hate white(or off white) .... get a miter so tight ya couldn't fit a thin slip of paper in ... and it still looks like it's fat/open with a "dark line" running down ... joints that'd look better than perfect in a stain grade still need hit with the wax fill stick ... then ... they're so tight there's no where to squish the wax into!
The runs were small enough on this kitchen that I pre-assembled all the "outside mitered sections" ... 23g pin nail with a little glue and lift into place as a unit.
faster ... better ... gooder.
That island ... yeah ... we were hoping it wasn't for the unit next door? Figured we'd nail it down before anyone else noticed?
Part of the insland couldn't be set till this last Fri ... had a central vac pipe sticking up .. had to wait for the vac guy ... guess what his name was?
ended up with 3 Jeff's in that kitchen at once ...
imagine the brain power at work!
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
ended up with 3 Jeff's in that kitchen at once ...
imagine the brain power at work!
Yup, three Jeffs a thinkin' = A vaccuum, on an island, in a sea of constructive thoughts.
And Buck, with the crown, looking down from above... king of the island of vaccuuous reason.
You da man! <G>
Isn't there a saying about too many Jeffs in the kitchen spoils the soup?
Ah well, you guys did some incredible work in spite of yourselves... very nice.
Maybe it's just the picture, but it would appear the the one corner of the island is 1/64" out of level.
"Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words." - St. Francis of Assisi
Jeff
If you'd wash your hands more the white cabs wouldnt be such a problem.
Nice work though.
Doug
what I really like about them is ya really can't take a nice sharp pic ...
something about all that white(or off white) confuses the camera and no matter how mard ya look .. ya can't tell if those joints are nice and tight or a mile wide open.
Or ... as we say around here ...
Another set for the portfolio!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
I have developed a consistent, nagging, but low-level loathing of white decor, or off-white as the case may be.
White is a loaded, on a lot of levels, color. Cleanliness, order, light, truth and beauty all have contexts within the mythology and associations with this color. Or as my physicist friends would point out colors, as in all.
Not surprising that HOs who have children, and the disordered and messy life they imply, would see photographs of an all-white house as an ideal to be striven after.
Of course white-on-white decor, outside of meticulous couples without children with large domestic staffs and regular scheduled redecorating, starts deteriorating from it pristine perfection the moment, sometimes before, it comes out of the box. White-on-white ideal beauty is an ideal that humanity seems likely to strive toward but not reach. Not as long as humans actually live in around it. It might work fine as long as you could build the house and keep it essentially free of human contact once near perfection is reached.
But, alas, the money to build a home does not always confer wisdom enough to avoid this trap. Too often I wire homes with an active white-on-white theme. Often they want minor changes a few months after completion. The signs of deviations from the ideal are obvious even in that short time. But true folly falls to those who move in with children. White sure does show the dirt and wear. White, or off-white, cabinets and carpets start working toward abstract works in the Jackson Pollock school.
Every rub, scrape and bump clearly visible. Every drip, smear and greasy thumbprint telegraphing itself from across the room. A pristine perfection defiled in an almost Zen manner. Of course I can say that given fifty years of semi-random encounters a certain organic patina can start to develop. Humanity and nature reasserting itself in the face of human imposed monochrome. In the mean time, prior to the half a century of refinishing, the results are seldom pretty.
IMHO it would be far wiser, and considerably less stressful and time consuming, to start off with a decor that is people friendly and more cooperative with natural organic processes of humanity.
Edited 3/15/2005 7:59 pm ET by 4LORN1
I was reading these recent thread postings from the back going to the front.
When I got to your post I started reading the bottom paragraph and knew it was you.
be thinking 4lorn is an english scholar masquerading as an electrician
I am becoming increasingly worried that there isn't enough anxiety in my life
Edited 3/16/2005 12:46 pm ET by the razzman
...who else would write a 200 word essay on white cabinets?I Love A Hand That Meets My Own,
With A Hold That Causes Some Sensation.
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I know it. What a bloomin' thing.
contexts within the mythology
the Jackson Pollock school.
Zen manner
organic patina
Humanity and nature reasserting
face of human imposed monochrome
natural organic processes of humanity
But you know what?
That was a damn good read. ROAR!
be read
I am becoming increasingly worried that there isn't enough anxiety in my life
Mein Bauhaus don like - no soup for you!
Looks very nice, fits in the kitchen nicely. What kind of countertop would he be putting on? How about lighting? (Sounds like wouldn't need that many lights!)
Jeff- How did you make out with that "Victorian" kitchen you were going after a few weeks ago?
still running trim ... still planning the kitchen ....
and now there's talk of bumping up the back porch in front of the kitchen ....
so ... still taking any and all ideas!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA