I started working on smaller projects for the walk -in closet yesterday, but around 5:30 a.m. I decided that I would rather build the island. So I made my way to the Home Depot to pick up everything I needed for this project. I didn’t have a lot of time to work when I came home with all these supplies, but my main goal was to build the base box, to attach the feet and put it in order so that I could get an idea of what this room would look like with an island. I will jump to the end and show you this part, then I will withdraw at the beginning and show you the process.
Here is what I’ve been striving for some time. This is the size of the island and what it looks like in the room.
The finished island will be 30 “X 72” and the overhang on the worktop, which is about one inch on all four sides. That will leave me 36 inch floor surface on all four sides of the island. And while in my eyes I knew that 36 inch hiking room around the island was plenty of space, I was still trying to actually see it. So I was very relieved to bring the island to such an extent that I could actually keep it, put them in order and then get the feeling of walking around in the room to see itself that it would actually work. And it’s great! I still have a lot of space to open my jewelry drawer all the way, which means that I have enough space to open all island drawers. So my planning worked perfectly!
To build this, I started with the long piece for the floor, cut to 28 “x 70.5”, and for this piece I nailed the side parts that are 30 “high and 28” wide.
Here is another look at it, with the bottom of the island on the bottom of the picture.
I don’t know why I decided like that, but I made the side pieces into the edge of the lower piece and then screwed. In retrospect, I wish I had made the side pieces 3/4 “shorter, and the lower piece 3/4” wider on each side and then put the parts together and screwed up and screwed so that the side pieces were on the bottom of the lower piece. In both cases, however, it will work.
I first nailed the parts together, just because it is much easier to hold them together and nail them to get them on the way, and then I followed 1.5 ” #8 Spax cabinet, for which the holes do not have to be brought up and the wood is not divided.
I repeated this on the other side and then added the middle section. This piece was cut 3/4 “shorter than the side parts because it was attached to the top of the lower piece. I measured and marked the middle of the floor, exhibited the plywood divider and nailed it in place.
And then I followed the spax screws through the lower piece and in the edge of the middle section to secure it.
And that was it with the base box. Quite easy!
Then I added a “frame” with 1 × 3 around the floor. The purpose for these pieces was to give the wood in the areas in which the feet would be attached to a little more depth and also give me something to which the floor cladding is attached. I only attached these parts with 1.25 “16-gauge nails. No screws could be used for these parts.
I turned the piece to attach the frame to the other side because I wanted to be sure that it was perfectly aligned with the edge of the plywood floor, and then attached 1 × 3 parts to each side to complete this frame. I did not need these side parts to attach my feet, but again the lower cladding will run all the way around the island, and this gives me something to nail to which I can nail.
To attach the feet (turned wooden feet that are 4.5 inches high and 3.5 inches wide, from Lowe’s) I drilled holes for the thread screws on my feet. I have not taken care of buying these metal plates into which the screws intervene, because this would only have added to the feet that I would have to pull off the drawer area, and I always want to squeeze a fraction of an centimeter that I can get from the total height of 36 inch in the island for the drawer. In addition, you are simply not needed for such a project. So after I had measured and marked how far my feet should go to the floor so as not to hit my feet, I drilled the holes for the furniture foot screws.
And then I used quite a few wood glue on the top of the furniture feet …
And put the threaded screws in the holes that I had drilled. I made three feet on one side, gave him a little time to put this wooden glue, turned the island and made the other three foot on the other side.
It’s as far as I do, but it was far enough for me to upright the Iceland carcass and get an idea of what it would look like in the middle of the room.
I think it will be great! The size is perfect. It is big enough to have eight drawers on the hanging clothing of the room and four drawers and two closet doors on the space side of the room. Each drawer and each cabinet section are about 34 inches wide.
And that leaves me a 36 -inch floor surface on each side of the island.
This is the page that has eight drawers. I still have to work out the exact height of every drawer. This will be a kind of “find it out while I go on”.
But that’s how it looks …
Here is a wide -angle view of it from this page …
And then this page is the one with the four drawers on the left and closet doors on the right.
So it will look like this …
And here is a final view that looks back to the cabinet from the washing/dryer area.
I wish I had started earlier a day so that I could continue to bring the project with it, but at least I have brought it so far that I could actually visualize the size of the island in the closet. Hopefully I can make a lot more progress in the next two days! I hope that I can make a lot more island on Monday.
Randnote: I apologize to all the ordinary freaks who are probably incredibly afraid to look at these pictures of me before I work on this project before I cleaned up my chaos from previous projects. Sometimes I forget that not every work process is like mine, where I can simply push everything aside and jump into something new. And I promise you that my floor is okay. This weekend I will try to take some time and clean up things so that you don’t have to feel worried all organized people to look at the progress pictures on Monday.
