My walk -in wardrobe island is very nice! Yesterday I completed almost everything on the chest of drawers, which means that I only end a bit today, and then I can start with the drawers, drawer fronts and closet doors.
At the end of this article I didn’t get far on the island. It looked like this …
It was difficult to say that it was an island at this time. But at the end of the day it looked much more like an island yesterday. This is how it looks …
Let me show you the steps it required to get from the very fundamental form that I stopped the last time.
First I had to cut and attach a piece of plywood to separate one of the sections into a front and rear section. Since a section has drawers on the front and back, it does not need a separator. However, the other section has drawers and closet doors on the other side, so that the closet side needs a back. To attach this separator plywood, I measured and marked a vertical line in the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle …
And then I measured and marked the same line on the outer plywood. And I used these lines to align the cutting slice piece of plywood and arrest it. I just nailed through the outside of the plywood and the edge of the separator piece. I used small 18-gauge nails so that these holes are very easy to hide with wood fillers.
And so it looked with this piece.
Next I had to cover the edges of the largest part of the plywood because they would show, and the edges of plywood are not very pretty.
I covered these edges with a pre -chilled wood veneer …
This edge class can be found with an iron that is set to a high heat setting. The iron melts the glue, and when it cools down, the strip is captured on the edge of the plywood. The edge class is always a bit too wide, so I used a new, sharp blade in my utility knife to cut the excess and then sand the edges with 120 bodies sand paper. And so the finished edges looked …
I placed the edge class on all edges shown below and repeated this process on the other side of the island.
If you remember, the lower edge of my island actually has a layer of plywood and then a frame of 1x3s. Here is a memory of what that looks like from the previous post. This is a view of the bottom of the island, where it is turned over on the side. Do you see this 1 × 3 frame on the ground?
I will show you this to mention that I have not put any edge bands on the edges of these 1x3s. I only put the edge class on the edges of the plywood. Solid wood not only does not need edge bands, I also wanted to cover the edges of this wood with trim. So the edge class went back to the edges of the plywood.
Before I could add trim, I had to add a little depth around the floor, so I used my table saw and tore a few 1 × 3 in strips that are 3/4 “x 3/4”, and then I attached it to the bottom of the 1 × 3 frame.
Here is a better view of what it looked like. You can see the plywood with the edge class at the top and then attach the 3/4 -inch strip to the bottom of this 1 × 3 frame around the bottom of the island. …
I started cutting out the end of the island. I started with 1 × 2 left and right, but I extended this 3/4 inches over the edge of each side. And then I attached the lower horizontal piece 1 × 2.
Before I could attach the upper horizontal 1 × 2 to complete this frame, I attached the edge cladding to the worktop (from which I forgot to take a photo) to see how far the upper frame had to come. Since the edge cladding of the work slatten exceeds the edge of the island a little, this means that I would have put on this upper horizontal side frame directly on the plywood, the frame would only have looked off a little because the edge cladding on the worktop would have cut off the view of this piece. So I left the upper horizontal frame about 1/2 inches from the upper edge of the side plywood piece so that the whole thing was visible.
Here is a look at the side frames that show how it extends over the edge of the plywood 3/4 ″. The purpose of this and the lower horizontal piece that is attached below is to create a slot for the drawer fronts.
This is what it looks like …
Then I attached the same cladding that I had used on the edge of the worktop on this lower strip around the bottom of the island.
Inside the 1 × 2 frame, I used Basiskapformte to complete the final design.
This is what the end of the island, the view from the door, looks.
And you can see that the lower cladding is continued completely and nailed on the front of the lower piece, on which I nailed down, with both pieces rinse at the top.
Here is a view from the other side. Hopefully you can imagine that the drawer fronts are sitting in the frame that is extended with these parts on the sides and the floor.
And here is a more precise view of the cladding that I attached to the edges of the worktop.
A problem that almost immediately noticed is that I reported the placement of my feet incorrectly. Now that I have added all this cladding around the floor, the feet are inserted too far so that they are almost not even visible. So I have to turn the island and move my feet out. It will look much better and more balanced as soon as I do it.
But that’s the progress! I am quite excited about how it develops. Hopefully this weekend I can make a lot of progress on the drawers, drawer fronts and doors and have an almost enemy cabinet island by Monday!
