Adjusting Window Trim Around A High Countertop + My Studio Office Area Cabinets Coming Together

Earlier than I might set up the window sill, I needed to put a number of spacers and nail them to the underside framing of the window in order that the window sill would have one thing to take a seat on that was degree with the countertop. I reduce these out of two×2 lumber, and so they wanted to be about 3/4-inch excessive. I simply nailed these into the tough 2×4 framing utilizing 2-inch 16-gauge nails.

After which I put the window sill straight onto these spacers and the countertop and nailed it into every one of many spacers, after which nailed it straight onto the countertop on every finish and within the center.

As soon as the window sill was in place, I might comply with with the remainder of the trim. The home windows within the studio had already been trimmed out, and the trim needed to be eliminated earlier than I constructed the countertop. So I didn’t have to start out from scratch. If you wish to see how I trim out all of my home windows and doorways from starting to finish, you possibly can see that course of right here. However for these, the window sill was already reduce and the header casing was already put collectively. All I needed to do was trim down the aspect jambs and the aspect casings a bit to suit the brand new top of the window sill, and the remaining was a breeze.

So in the event you evaluate the present trimmed home windows to the home windows earlier than the cupboards had been put in and the countertop was constructed, you possibly can see that I needed to sacrifice the aprons on the backside of every window.

I did the identical factor once I constructed the cupboard underneath the window in our grasp rest room and determined that I wished that cupboard to be increased than the self-importance counter tops and in addition wished to achieve these few inches of drawer top on the cupboard.

I’ve by no means missed the apron on that window in our rest room, and I gained’t miss the aprons on the home windows within the studio, both.

I imply, can all of us simply recognize how lengthy I’ve been ready and planning this? Once more, take a peek on the date on this drawing.

Sure. Sure, that does say 2017. Six years, y’all! I’ve been planning and dreaming about this for six years! I really feel like issues work out in the fitting timing, although. Had I been in a position to do the cupboards six years in the past, I might have ended up with 30-inch-high counter tops, which I’ve found wouldn’t have been almost as helpful to me, and I might have ended up with a complete lot much less storage than I’m going to have now. So the design has been tweaked in superb methods, that means that each one of this was most likely properly well worth the wait.

And even simply inside the previous couple of days, the design has been tweaked once more. A number of of you had been confused with my description of the adjustments, so now you possibly can really see them.

Earlier than placing the remainder of the cupboards in place on this wall, I first needed to take away the half-finished countertop that I had began. I had initially deliberate for the countertop to span the complete width of the bottom cupboards.

As soon as that was eliminated, I used to be again so far with simply the bottom cupboards.

After I put in these decrease cupboards, I did so utilizing spacers behind the cupboards in order that the bottom cupboards would stand out a number of inches additional than the higher cupboards, with the uppers and lowers separated by a countertop.

The following sections to go in place had been the 20-inch-high drawer sections. These will include two drawers.

If I had to do that another time, and I knew I used to be going to do that explicit design from the start, I might have ordered wall cupboards to make use of because the decrease cupboards as a substitute of ordering base cupboards. The bottom cupboards have these steel rails with screw holes in them which are used to screw the countertop to the bottom cupboard.

Had I ordered a wall cupboard as a substitute, it will have include a strong piece for the highest as a substitute of these rails. But it surely’s effective, and it’s achieved. I simply used the screw holes in these rails to screw the underside cupboard to this new cupboard utilizing 1/2-inch screws as a substitute of the screws that include the cupboards to screw cupboards collectively. (The screws that include IKEA cupboards to screw the cupboards collectively are longer and meant to undergo two 3/4-inch panels.)

Subsequent up, I wanted to assemble the 36″ x 40″ cupboard and put it into place. Working on my own makes these items difficult typically, and I needed to give you a solution to stack that cupboard on high of the others on my own. I knew that if I put the cupboard collectively on the ground, like I did all the remainder of the cupboards, there can be completely no means I might hoist that cupboard up there on my own. It’s not too terribly heavy, but it surely’s not mild, both, and it’s very cumbersome.

So I positioned one of many items of MDF that was initially used for the bottom of the countertop again onto the decrease cupboards as a brief countertop, and I assembled the cupboard up there as a substitute of on the ground. It wasn’t fairly straightforward placing such a big cupboard collectively on such a small area, however I managed. That means, slightly than making an attempt to elevate the assembled cupboard all the way in which from the ground to the highest area, I simply needed to lean the cupboard over, and standing on the ladder, pull the cupboard up and over simply 20 inches in order that it was sitting on high of the brand new 20-inch-high cupboard.

My first try wasn’t profitable. As I used to be making an attempt to tip the cupboard into place, it acquired wedged underneath the sloped ceiling. 😀 And once I say it was wedged in there, I imply it was wedged in there. I used to be starting to assume I’d must name somebody to assist me get it unwedged.

However I lastly managed to get it unwedged alone, and get it screwed to the cupboard beneath it. After which I repeated that entire course of on the opposite aspect, and ended up with this…

So my drawing is lastly coming to life, and you may see how this space will form up. The 2 exterior decrease cupboards could have doorways, the brief sections above these might be drawers, and the highest sections could have doorways. After which the 2 decrease sections beneath the window might be drawers.

These cupboards would require a ton of trim to complete them, together with crown molding across the high.

And now you possibly can actually see what I meant in regards to the countertop in my earlier put up. As an alternative of the countertop spanning the complete width of the decrease cupboards, it’ll solely go in between the 2 tall towers of cupboards within the area indicated by the road/arrows beneath.

As soon as I get the countertop in, I can trim out this window in the identical means I did the opposite two. This new, a lot narrower countertop would require one much less full laminate flooring board than the unique design, and I used to be one board brief on ending the countertop on the mural wall. So all of it works out completely.

So now I’ve these areas between the wall and the higher cupboards.

That is so thrilling to see this come collectively in spite of everything of this time. And I’m totally having fun with the journey as properly.