Check Local Availability
check your local store, for in store pickup
check your local store, for in store pickup
check your local store, for in store pickup
This approach to creating counter space is growing daily and will give identical appearance as some of the other more expensive counter top options. Using concrete on top of cabinetry or even a pass through shelve, can certainly change the look in any room or office. Outside of the concrete color or veining techniques, the mixing and pouring is essentially identical.
Here in this concrete counter form image with reinforced steel or rebar, 
we have used 4″ lag screws to anchor the #3 rebar, staggered every 24″O.C. The counter or shelve here is formed to 2″ in depth and 12″ wide with the length being 10′ long between the two end points of the adjacent walls. Because it sits atop a 2×4 framed wall, it will cantilever 2″ to the kitchen area and roughly 6″ pass the other side of the same wall into the living room.
The image to the right here shows the importance of protecting the wood framing beneath with flashing paper to act as a moisture barrier and future dry-rotting adherent. The small spacers under our #3 rebar allows the new aggregate pour to completely surround the reinforcement steel for optimum strength.
- plywood or melamine, plus screws to build the mold
- bagged counter-top mix (or “scratch” mix below)
- dyes or pigment if you’re coloring your counter-top
- grinder / polisher with water feed (can be rented)
- diamond polishing discs of various grit
- concrete mixer- concrete vibrating tool (can be rented)- dusts masks
…… Now DIY your own Concrete Counter-Top over almost any applicable surface!
Request come in all kinds. “Remove my ice maker and build some cabinet storage or drawer storage”, and make it look as if you were never even here!
The removed ice machine had a huge cavity to restructure, for the set of drawers to work here I had to down size the area inside this cabinet. With an existing face frame, the drawers need a set of runners framed in place to carry the drawer slides, or furring down the size of the existing void.
The existing opening has to be consistent through to the back, so all pieces can be pre-cut and assembled prior to installation. Once layout had been carefully measured, and the drawer boxes were fabricated in the shop, the drawer runners and back boards are installed. And the drawer slides are now ready for leveling and placement.
With a Kreg Jig, the face frame dividers are pre-drilled and installed next. Leaving clearance for the drawer boxes to slide freely and smooth. To align the drawer faces, they can be pin nailed in the proper location first. 
We can now pre-drill the front of the drawer boxes so they can be screwed to the back of the drawer faces.
The painter gets the call to come and spray finish our clients new diy drawer storage cabinet. If all has been executed precisely, no one will ever know the new drawers have been retro-fitted into an old cabinet!
Drawer sides made from prefinished melamine consist with a dado cut 1/4″ deep running the length of the drawer depth. Building a drawer pullout is simply a box, with a drawer front screwed to the drawer face and a drawer knob attached to the drawer face. A typical drawer bottom is 1/4″ white melamine cut on a table saw. 
Any cabinet can use some sort of box to pullout and fill with just about anything. The dimension can vary and prefinished drawer sides can be purchased up to 12″ deep for larger capacity. Hardwood drawer fronts and backs are considered mostly for the durability. Once the drawer box has been assembled with finished nails, gun or hand nails will suffice. The drawer slides can be mounted and installed inside the cabinet. All drawer slide hardware has adjustable slots or cams for fine tuning. You may now install the drawer faces and pull hardware.
There’s one way to ensure that the value of your home increases even during an economic downturn. Many people don’t understand that they can do a kitchen remodel without spending a ton of money. There’s just one key – you have to be creative! Check out these simple ideas to creating a new look for your kitchen on a budget:
~ Choose a theme for your kitchen: Italian, Mexican or traditional. Get a few accessories to carry out this theme.
~ Pick a bright new color for your kitchen. A new coat of paint or installing kitchen cabinets yourself are inexpensive ways to create a new look for a room.
~ Use matching hand towels and pot holders to coordinate with your new theme.
~ Display your collections. If you collect figurines, dishes or glassware use space-saving wall shelves to display your wares. This will give your kitchen that personalized look you want.
~ Repaper you drawers and shelves in a fun color. Every time you pull out a drawer or open up a cabinet you will see a burst of color.
Interestingly enough and more often than not the Realtor’s are getting in the way of too many home owners that are upside down in this real estate market. They have found most of the NOD’s that have the lenders { mortgage servicer’s } all up in arms over their ever growing long list of non performing assets. While very few investors have the magic pill that can fix most of these peoples problems, some do know how to execute short sale potential properties, and save the home owners themselves 7 years of misery, as well as, getting the banks closer to doing what they do best, ” lending money “.
One major snafu that’s not working is the way the Realtor goes about this tricky process, causing lengthy negotiations and or no buyers during the home owners time of need. The caveat here lies in understanding exactly what it is that the banks are truly looking for, and securing a huge opportunity for several entities.
When it does go smoothly and a fix and flip might be the exit strategy, a full blown kitchen remodel will take place, Home Depot can employ more help, and the real estate investor has upgraded a home that will create jobs in the consrtuction industry enabling the home to appraise higher and the state can collect more revenue to repair the roads…… etc. etc.
Remodeling the bathroom can seem like a chore best left to the professionals. However, simple bathroom renovations are not all that difficult even for the person who doesn’t have a lot of knowledge of interior design. Doing a bathroom remodel is an excellent method to entice potential homebuyers for people trying to sell their home, and also having an updated bathroom is nice for personal use. To get started with a bathroom remodel, first address tiling and cabinetry. For people who don’t have a cabinet unit housing their sink, there’s no need to address the cabinetry obviously. But for those who do have cabinets, ripping out and installing cabinets is quite simple, but the plumbing can be a little tricky and it’s advised to hire a professional to hook it up. In terms of tiling, it’s a tedious process, but for people with patience and a keen eye, tiling is simple.
Cabinetry and tiling are the main aspects of a bathroom remodel, but don’t be shy about repainting or installing new lighting fixtures. Skylights, while quite expensive, also make excellent additions to a bathroom.
Every Home Improvement warehouse store, in their cabinet organize sections, sell predrilled cabinet side panels for adjustable shelving. While fabricating these diy cabinets, these 8′ lengths of predrilled white melamine pieces come in 11 1/4″ or 15 3/4″ widths for finishing out at the common lower and upper DIY cabinet dimensions respectively. 
12″ and 16 1/2″ of areas well served for every thinkable storage item imagined. A diy home improvement kitchen remodel that can literally change the way you do business in the kitchen. Most of these panels come in other wood finishes too. Even custom orders are taken but with the right diy kitchen doors no one but you really inspects the inside of your cabinets, so go with the least expensive (white Melamine) and make a bigger wow statement with the much more visible diy kitchen doors. And end up getting the most out of your DIY kitchen cabinets square footage dollar.
When fabricating a bathroom vanity with a face frame, the face frame is assemble most effective before it will be mounted on the cabinets face. A single door front with a row of 3 drawers equaling the door height. DIY cabinets will consist of several facets, during which after your scaled drawing is conceived and you have chosen all of the drawer slide components and door hinge. You should now have the exact face frame dimensions cut and ready for assembly. The cabinets face frame gets pre bored with a face frame tool that is designed specifically for this purpose. This face frame cabinet tool is called a Kreg jig.
This tool is a real sweetheart for an easy pilot hole boring on the backside of all your face frame cabinet pieces. The outside rails on the face frame gets the cross pieces glue and screwed into it. This hardwood stock averages about 2″ wide and should get 2 screw holes per end. The Kreg jig can be bought in a complete kit or a single jig will get her done just fine. Typically it comes with 1 bit and a hole guide with an adjustable stop collar as well. Straight forward and easy to use, we, here couldn’t build a cabinet without one.
In every form of cabinetry the toe kick gets overlooked. All diy cabinets can facilitate a toe kick, as in a strong foundation builds the forgoing future. At the base of cabinetry sits the frame that supports the boxes they rest on, and most of these allow the front toe kick to be visible.
Unless, as the image here shows, the end box or only cabinet (such as a bathroom vanity) has a side panel that is notched for a finish toe kick panel.
If the conditions are such that 3 boxes fill a space between two walls, for instance, the toe kick may end up being 10′ or so and will fasten below at the face of the frame the 3 boxes sit upon. In this case a back ledger and several sub span joist of 3/4″ ply every 24″ can be applied to create the base frame. Standard dimensions are 2″ to 3″ recessed back and 4″ high for comfort and cleaning. As the layout enables every cabinet, so in a sense they will have equal support for a good solid install. Now the finish front toe kick can be installed to complete the base portion of the cabinets.
As in every trade there’s a tolerance, and for framing a wall for instance this can be up to 1/2″ in some conditions. But with all diy cabinets we can say proudly that accuracy is an 1/16″ or less. It is not a given that the walls will be plumb and square every time so, often the face frame on an end unit diy cabinet can be ran wild or long for scribe execution. With a plane or even a belt sander the face frame is milled down for a nice tight fit and leaving the diy cabinet plumb, level and square. 
This frame is easily assembled with a Kreg jig, a simple self guiding hole drilling apparatus that is 100% perfect every time. Take a few extra minutes before hand and evaluate the sites condition’s to alleviate any further problems. A level and a framing square will show you where any maladies lie and help you to get a good mental picture of what needs to be accomplished.
