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Yes that was my arguments against the more detailed one - harder to keep clean and more vulnerable to damage. Your cabinets look really smart and well modelled by the dogs!

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Thanks Stimpy. Sammy those doors look smart and the hinge pins look good where you have paced them - unless you could get them to line up perfectly with the bead - its probably best to leave the frame alone or else it may look a bit awkward. Jar - thats professional kit you have there! - Ive...

Nice one guys - I like the scribing in idea, that will take into account if any of my frames are slightly out. The other question I have yet resolved is where to mount the butt hinges - I see on many kitchens that they are let only into the door and are surface mounted on the cabinet frame - is...

Cheers Doug - Ive just made the first one today as a bit of a trial - its actually an end panel I made - I aimed to make it the exact size of the aperture and its come out pretty much that - so I just needed to plane a touch off all round.

Cheers Jar - Makes sense! What size gap for a finished fit should I be aiming for - bearing in mind I'll be adding paint to the doors?

Definitely feels like the home straight Doug (y) after doors, just the skirting / kick panels, painting and drawer infills cutlery trays etc.

I’ve just taken a pic this morning of the pantry, I’ve used the same stone as a countertop within it and you can see the two pockets either side of the centre section that will take the doors.

Thanks for that Clogs and Jonathan - I’ll take your advice and not try and fit them straight off the bat!

I'm in the midst of ripping down planks of tulip wood and milling them to size for the doors, drawer fronts and end panels. I'll use a profile scribing cutter in the router table to machine up the rails and stiles and I'll hang the doors with butt hinges. I have a question for the experienced! -...

Tom, thanks very much for such kind words (y) I've got a few more pics here I can post up. The first 3 are of the shallow spice cupboard and the final one shows the pocket door sliding mechanism that will enable the centre doors of the top half of the pantry to open and slide into out of the way.

Ha, well I’m certainly having a grand time making it!

Cheers Jonathan, I think the Misses is going for an off white - she says bone colour lol. She’ll choose it but I’ll have to apply it!! Just machining up some strips of oak today to apply to the shelf fronts.

The drawer bottoms are pre-finished so I didn’t lacquer them - they’re 8mm Egger board - melamine faced particle board. Actually a very good match to the real oak itself! Cabinets are made of the same but in 18mm.

Finally got all 21 drawers finished and fitted, very happy with them, I gave them a few spray coats of lacquer out of a rattle can to seal the timber. Also had worktop fitted, its a quartzite, so being a natural stone that is apparently harder than granite, the stonemasons struggled to machine...

So they may now be worth even more than you paid for them - for those who wish to sell on after buying for a specific job! :p I'm keeping mine though - I love it!

Just been looking at your website Pete and your adventure in Switzerland, that looks a lovely house and a great project. Ive always had a soft spot for Switzerland - I did think there were restrictions on buying property there if you weren't a resident though..

Ha - I can feel the enthusiasm! - What jig did you go for? If you went for a Leigh, the instructions that come with them are very good, I just followed them in test pieces, making through dovetails, variably spaced half blind, and then single pass half blind. The manual walks you easily through...

I used old school linseed putty to hold the glass in on the sash window I made recently - b*std magpies have come and pecked it all out - caught one in the act the other day! Apparently its something in the linseed all that attracts them according to google... another reason to use these modern...

Cheers Pete, I'd never done anything like this before, my advice would be to research each technique and then spend time familiarising yourself with the tools and understanding how they operate.