Today we attached the wooden knobs we received yesterday, and so can say that the library cupboard (cabinet? closet?) is finished!
Finished for the time being. There is a bit of silicon finishing to do, but Pim is so busy with the kitchen right now that I won’t bring it up. And perhaps it is best to do that at the very end, when we install the toe-kicks, which we haven’t since we’ll still re-grout and polish the floor sometime, and once that’s done we can install them, then silicon around all gaps. For now the toe-kicks live under the cupboard.
So, I’m talking about the Ikea-kitchen-cabinet/cupboard I mentioned here. This was the plan:
And this is the thing:
I’m super happy with it! It is a bit lighter than our general wood scheme but it’s ok. And maybe a bit of a relief in the darkest room of the house.
I think it doesn’t at all look like a kitchen. But I love the kitchen drawer hardware to be sure! they open completely out, unlike any livingnroom furniture I’ve seen. These are Ekestad oak veneer doors. Everything is 37cm deep. Unbeatable price also. It took us a couple of weekends to set it all up.
We could not find any knobs we liked in Ikea. More locally (Europe) some knobs were nice but quite expensive, and also a bit large. Finally I found a super deal in aliexpress.com, 100 knobs forĀ 20 euro. These are not oak but beech, but I think the match is great. The store is Green Idea Woodcrafts (1017022). I can really recommend these. And we have enough for the workshop kitchenette which is also Ekestad, woot!
We installed lightning in the vitrines. We also painted the vitrines a dark green inside. All of this was a little bit useless. I had forgotten that the glass doors are frosted, and so you can barely see anything when they’re closed, even the lightning. Well, they’re a bit too full at the moment since many of these books belong in the workshop, so that stops even more of the light. But still…
I wonder if the frost is a film that could be removed, it certainly doesn’t feel like the glass is sandblasted. Pim doesn’t let me experiment, though.
On the right side we placed a tall cabinet. I wanted to figure out a way to hide our ironing board in it, and we cut out a piece off two shelves and did just that! we applied finishing tape to the raw edges and, done! Now the ironing board, iron, ironing ham and sleeve board (you’d think I actually ever iron anything – but if I do something I like to do it right), several bags and backpacks, a pop-up tent and a bike tyre live here. Lots of awkward stuff. It’s great!
We also had the first chance to try out one of these Ikea interior drawers. You can keep the same layout throughout the fronts but still subdivide further inside where needed. Of course it is an extra step to open, but I am really liking it so far.
It feels so, so good every time we can tidy up a corner of the house š