2/23/06
More cabinet work
The doors came prefinished, so I needed to
match them. I'm not sure about my stain choice. It looks closer
to the doors in the pictures than in person. The back
panels have a bit of green to them. Either I don't worry about
it, because there will be stuff on the shelves and no one will notice
the color, or I find out if there's a way to add a tint to the satin
coat that I'll put on this weekend.

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This past Sunday I put one set of drawer fronts on. I thought building the drawers was complicated, but that was nothing to getting the drawer fronts on close to straight. Now I need to find knobs, so I can open them....
 

The full wall shot. I stained on Sunday and Monday, but I'm not sure yet. We love the color, but it is a little greener than the doors. I know it doesn't help that the doors are maple and the the wall is oak. Someday I'll learn to not mix types of wood.
The sun spot doesn't help, but there is a color difference. Now I'm debating with the color differences if I can go with cheaper pine crown molding or if I need to get oak. The oak crown isn't that bad, but where I get into cost are the crown drops I want to put over the two vetical sections so I don't need one long piece of crown molding.
 
I did test the stain on a piece of oak and it looked nice. What I didn't do was test it on the 1/4" plywood. That's the stuff that has the green tint. The hand rail and the 3/4" counter top parts don't have the green and look the way I thought it all would. I think I might have faced the wrong side of the 1/4" backing to the front.