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Custom Cabinets.

My customer wanted a built-in buffet that matches his existing kitchen cabinets.  Solid oak and stained to match.

I started out by making the styles and rails for the doors.  A router bit set for cabinet doors makes the cuts needed so the style and rail fits together.   The panel is inserted in the grooves......

....and it's glued and clamped overnight.   No nails or screws are used.

The holes for the European cabinet hinges are drilled with a 1 3/8" Forstner bit.

Here are the doors attached to the face frame.  It is then taken apart and stained.

The new built-in cabinet is replacing the old free standing buffet by the back door right off the kitchen..

Here's another angle of the bottom half.

The top half of the buffet will be shelves with a solid oak backboard.  The backboard planks are tongue & groove with a "v" edge.  The plaster wall behind it was out of plumb and had to be shimmed.

Here are the original kitchen cabinets.  Actually, only the bottom larger cabinets are original.  I built the small upper cabinets with the glass doors a couple years previously.

Another shot of the kitchen cabinets. 

The bottom half was installed first.  Then the granite counter top.  The granite matches the granite counter tops in the kitchen.

The finished product.