A year and half ago my best friend, Vickie Hilliard and I demolished my kitchen and have rebuilt it with this gorgeous solid curly maple over baltic birch cabinets. It includes a break front look to a dining side with a step back cabinet design on the kitchen side. The island was replaced with a custom cart. We are not finished. We are working on the last of the upper cabinets. LOTS of details have been built in for gourmet cooking without the industrial kitchen look. The finish is custom blend of shellac and spray lacquer.
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End cap from kitchen side of cabinets - top panel is a solid piece.
Dining room side with a break front look. Pacific Big Leaf Maple with 2# shellac mix 1/2 platinum 1/2 superblonde. Spray of Magnalac by ML Campbell.
dovetailed drawers. Sides are of curly maple to match and make the drawers special.
Island cart on wheels - not finished but close. Top is butcher block with curly maple, walnut and curupay. The piece of granite cut out for the cook top was "squared" and is laid in the center for bread and dough working. The middle of the cart features a pull out spice rack. Waiting on two way drawer glides so those and the cabinets will be accessible from both sides. Electric patches are hidden at both ends and connect to the floor outlet.
Upper cabinets going in. Don't know if I can live without a step ladder in the kitchen!
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