We do a lot of remodeling/home improvements on the houses we've lived in. We started our kitchen remodel on this house about 5 years ago, beginning with replacing the tile floor with tongue-in-groove 5/8 thick oak boards (unfinished wood...had to then sand and finish it).
Then we started designing and building kitchen cabinets out of oak-faced plywood (for the body of the cabinets) and solid oak (faces, trim, doors and drawer fronts).
Cabinet that the kitchen sink sits in...before the doors went on:
Twin pantry cabinets with deep drawers on bottom half...these are unfinished, without drawer fronts. We made very sturdy drawers, with dove-tailed joints, then used sliders that would support 150 pounds and slide the drawers completely out.
Here, after the varnish and drawer fronts were added. Still working on the doors to go on the top half. Those will be like pie-safe doors...like frames with punched metal faces.
It's still a work in progress, mainly because there's only so many weekends to do the work...and now that we've got a new hobby...we haven't done much on the kitchen in a while......
Chris buys old Porsche 928's and does all the mechanicals on them, to get them road-worthy again. I've got to admit that I like this hobby of his...I ended up with my own 928, and it's a lot of fun to drive! We now have three red 928's and our son has a 944.
"My" 928, on its way to our house, prior to the clean up and mechanicals.
Interior in great shape, only needed a bit of cleaning to make it look practically new:
Engine...32 valve V8:
All done, and a lot of fun!