Popular Post Jerry_in_SD Posted December 28, 2013 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Well after a year, our kitchen is finished. Not sure when I first discovered Greene & Greene inspired furniture but fell in love with it from the start. It combines classic Arts and Crafts with a more modern, even Asian, flare. I have built several G&G inspired pieces after taking classes from William Ng, Darrell Peart, and even the Woodwhisperer himself (G&G picture frame). We suffered water damage to our wood floors so they had to be replaced and our kitchen cabinets, although refaced about 14 years ago needed to replaced as well. When my wife suggested I build our new kitchen, I stated if I was going to do this, then it had to be something you're not going to get from the big box stores or the standard kitchen remodel shop. So I decided to do G&G inspired. The entire project was build first in Sketchup and served as my plans once completed. Some of the design notes: All done in Cherry -- I know Mahogany was the species of choice for most G&G, my wife preferred Cherry over my only feasible Mahogany substitute - African Mahogany. Face frames have 7/8" stiles and 3/4" rails and the doors have 3/4" stiles and 5/8" rails, all with a 1/8" round over giving that G&G three dimensional look. Door rails have that classic G&G cloud lift design element. Ebony plugs are only found anchoring the face frame stiles and rails. Although I could have used more plugs in the doors my wife did not want all the plugs. In retrospect, I should have applied plugs to the end panels and the panels that wrap the island. Drawer pulls are arched pulls with ebony plugs. I did these before Darrell published his book so I used ideas from the Internet to create jigs for my pulls. Door pulls are from www.craftsmanhardware.com and my wife found these. I used Blum soft close Euro hinges because my wife liked the soft close function. I figured out later (dumb me), that I could have used finial leaf hinges as with inset doors, the air pressure provides a natural soft close. Cabinet boxes are 3/4" refinished maple ply, backs are 1/2" refinished maple ply. Drawer boxes are 5/8" hard maple with dovetailed drawers and use Blum Blumotion undercount slides for soft close. Below is overall kitchen. You can see it is small (fortunately for me). It blends into a family room which makes the furiture look of the kitchen appropriate. Another view.... Countertop is 3 cm soapstone You can see the arched pulls here. This is the corner units. Had 51 deg and 39 deg angles (really...). Thanks Sketchup. Not sure how I would have done this without Sketchup. This shows detail from the pantry (not shown in overall picture). Now some construction photos. Here are rails and stiles milled up. And here is face frame assembly with square holes being punched. Lee Valley chisels of Darrell Peart design. Face frame test fit to box. Face frames were finished prior to attachment to boxes. Face frames attached with glue and pocket holes. Mortises for loose tenons were done using jig I build from Greg Paolini plans. Door assembly. Kitchen took a year but only because of interruptions in the process. Our old kitchen was demo'd in September but we had drywall, electrical, plumbing and finally flooring work to be done. It will be a while until I do this again. My wife keeps referring to our 'next' kitchen and I am thinking "what next kitchen...". 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Very nice!Mel "Reindeer King" Morris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Absolutely stunning work! Beautiful design and execution! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChetlovesMer Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 I think that it's gorgeous. Love the cherry, it almost glows. Great job, you should be very proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatworks Today Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Very nice! I'll trade ya . That's the kind of cabinets I would love to have (someday)... In my "next" house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Great work SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Slack Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Beautiful work. Love G&G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 I wanted to add that I like the cherry better than the mahogany in this case. Mel "Reindeer King" Morris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mds2 Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Impressive and very beautiful. I'd love a kitchen like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cochese Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 An inspiration. Truly. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRBaker Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 SD, that is one fine job. I know mama is proud of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
680 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Impressed. Incredible Job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byrdie Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Your wife has a great eye. Those pulls couldn't be a more perfect fit. She also did a pretty good job of picking her craftsman. Very nicely done, just the right amount of ebony plugs and the cherry was a great choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdovy Posted January 3, 2014 Report Share Posted January 3, 2014 This is absolutely beautiful! I hope to one day re-do my kitchen as well and this is a great inspiration. How did you choose to finish the cabinets? Not having worked much with multi-species projects, did you have any trouble getting the finish of the cherry components to match the exposed maple ply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Password is Taco Posted January 3, 2014 Report Share Posted January 3, 2014 Great output. Solid all the way around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_in_SD Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 This is absolutely beautiful! I hope to one day re-do my kitchen as well and this is a great inspiration. How did you choose to finish the cabinets? Not having worked much with multi-species projects, did you have any trouble getting the finish of the cherry components to match the exposed maple ply? Thanks. There is no exposed maple ply. The face frame, doors, and drawers all cover the boxes so maple is only reveled when you open the door (or drawer as the drawers are made from maple as well. Picture below. Not a great photo as taken from my iPad. Cherry is actually stained. (I know...I know.... sorry, wife was impatient for the aged Cherry so wanted stain.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopnhack Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 SD, that is a fine kitchen and certainly custom. Well done!! There is nothing wrong in staining cherry when it comes to kitchen cabinets. Its done everyday. Fine furniture or heirlooms, she'll just have to wait! ;-) If she is interested in another kitchen, you can probably stave her off for some time by building some cabs to match the kitchen in the laundry room :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadskins Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Very nice work. Do you have any pictures of the finishing process? Also, what size dominos did you use? Ranny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendallstrand Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 That is a very very nice kitchen, sir. My kitchen is very similar to yours and my wife and I have been tossing around the idea of updating the cabinets. Thank you for the inspiration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_in_SD Posted January 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 Sorry, no pictures of finishing. Did not use dominos. Used 1/4" floating tenons. Mortises were cut using a jig designed and plans sold by Greg Paolini which you can see in the 2nd to last picture. I milled by own tenon stock from scrap. Love this jig. I would trade it for Festool Domino though.... Another picture of jig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Kolva Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 Beautiful kitchen, very nice work. I'm fond of loose tenon joinery also and recently make a jig similar to yours/Paolini, at least until I can justify a Multi Router. I work at the Red Rocks Community College Fine Woodworking program, we have several of the original Dominoe machines as well as a Frankenstein horizontal mortiser (Grizzly jointer/planer with a MiniMax xyz table attached). Given my druthers for accurate production I would use the horizontal mortiser or even my router table jig over the Dominoe. The Dominoe is a really nice machine but I think the efficiency of having a fixed setup on a stable machine is faster than using the Dominoe, granted the Dominoe is much less expensive and portable which could make a difference for many woodworkers. Just saw your post over on the Greene and Greene Yahoo groups as well, again, really nice work and a beautiful kitchen. I showed your pics to my wife and I think I'm on the hook for doing our kitchen as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenMasco Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 SD, Well done. I to am a big G&G fan. I took Pearl's class on G&G Details last year. Haven't built any G&G projects yet but planning to do a desk and book cases for my office this summer. I like the cherry look and feel on your cabinets. You executed the details beautifully. I especially like your Drawer pulls, they will show up in my office. Although the G&G brothers use of ebony plugs was excessive in my opinion, you took my preferred approach. Only where They belong structurally. I also like the size plugs you choose. I hope you and your family will both enjoy and appreciate your creation for many many years. Also, nice to see another SD member. I'm in N SD county, Fallbrook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CessnaPilotBarry Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 GREAT Job! Really nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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