Cabinet Improvisation

Steve and I decided to salvage one of the two existing lower cabinets (and its accompanying upper cabinet) to use until we do our grand kitchen remodel. Said grand kitchen remodel will happen... eventually... when we save up the money for all the finishes, and have lived in the house long enough to know exactly what we want.

The lower cabinet we wanted to save was missing two drawers, so we pulled two drawers out of the other cabinet. One drawer was a perfect fit for one we were missing. The other salvaged drawer was much too deep, but the other dimensions were a match. So, Steve got to cutting...

Perfect, of course.

Steve put in some small nails to reinforce the drawer. Two things to note about this next picture. First, he is being such a good boy wearing his hearing protection and safety glasses for the circular saw. Second, in the picture below he isn't hammering in one of the tiny nails. He is using a larger nail as a nail set, to recess the small nails. I tease him for his perfectionism, but he does do awfully good work.

And we have a complete set of cabinets (covered in the contractor's tools and supplies).

We will be sanding down, painting, adding drawer pulls and putting on a new piece of countertop when construction gets closer to completion. It'll certainly be interesting living in a kitchen with only one lower and one upper cabinet, but we've definitely had a lot worse. Our rental in the mountains didn't have any usable cabinets. At least in this kitchen, there's plenty of space to have shelving units for open storage.