A new home for the Radar-Range

[Cybrvanr]

Above the Magic-chef range. I just recently built this shelf as part of a kitchen renovation project. This attractive kitchen appliance needed an approperiate home. Actually, what I have been doing is repairing a botched renovation project, and enhancing it all. The project has gotten bigger, as I have found all sorts of other stuff to do to make it better! It first started out as a simple painting project...then I started taking walls out, literally!

1. tore out wall between dining room and kitchen
2. removed painted-over wallpaper from walls in kitchen & DR
3. removed wiring that previously existed in removed wall
4. Completely re-wired both kitchen & DR, adding 2 new circuits
5. patched up gap in wall made from the removal of the old wall
6. traded places with some cabinets & refrigerator
7. Installed soffett lighting & built soffett over old wall joint
8. Repair old trim, install new trim
9. re-paint all walls in combined kitchen & DR with blue, trim gray, and white, ceiling white
10. add hardwood flooring to gap in floor & re-finish DR hardwood

some of the steps haven't been completed yet. I have not finished painting, and the soffett is under construction now. The floors haven't been done and neither has any of the trim.

I should be finished sometime in September though!...Just been doing a little each and every night!

 

[Cybrvanr]

Here's some more shots on the progress. You can see the Fluorescent light strips that will become the soffett lighting once the boards are attached to cover them up. They are attached to an old beam left over from where the old wall was. From this picture, you can get a good perspective of what it's going to look like once everything is done. The reason why the blue paint does not go all the way to the ceiling is because there will be a piece of trim installed between the blue & the white that will continue across the face of the soffett. Where you see the line cut is going to be hidden by the trim strip once it's installed. It will be painted a silvery gray, along with the window & door frames. The doors themselves, and the window panes will get a fresh coat of white.

I'm using Benjamin-Moor exterior grade semi-gloss paint for the kitchen, so it will be easy to wipe down and clean. It's all getting painted with a brush too. I figured a roller would be too much of a fuss to paint all those curves and edges. The brush gives a much smoother finish too! I also intend to do some stenciling to the blue parts, maybe putting some space-age, mid-century motif's on it like stars, atoms, boomerangs or something of that sorts

 

[Cybrvanr]

A little board

Here's the 3X5 ft plyboards that will cover up the lights just after they've received a fresh coat of white paint. I had to use two boards because plywood is sold by the 8 foot sheet, and the room is 10 foot wide. (anybody need any 3X4 foot sections of pre-sanded plywood?) The two skinny 1X6 boards are structural supports that will span the sides from one edge to the other and keep the plywood from warping. If you look closely at the picture above, you will notice some small pieces of 2X4 boards attached to the top edge of the wall at the ends of the center beam. The 1X6 boards will attach to those. The edges of the plyood will then have a 2 inch piece of trim attached to it to cover the rouch edge.

 

[petek]

Looks like it's going to be great when it's done..I'll bet knocking out that wall has made such a difference, more air, more natural light..good show..