The Studio Office Area Cabinets Are Finished!

As a reminder, that is how the cupboards began out. These are IKEA Sektion cupboards, and I purchased the Veddinge cupboard doorways and drawer fronts.

As of final week, I had gotten fairly a bit achieved. I added trim to the doorways and drawer fronts, constructed a bridge between the 2 higher aspect cupboards, trimmed out the cupboards, put in sconces, constructed a countertop, and trimmed out the window.

I bought all of that completed final night time, and right here is my last determination. I went forward and painted the realm across the window the wall coloration (Benjamin Moore Basic Grey), which I believe appears to be like implausible, particularly now that the small trim is put in the place the cupboards meet the wall across the window. It has such a clear, completed look, and that small quantity of wall truly being the wall coloration as a substitute of pink actually did rather a lot to visually open up that space. After which, as a result of it was the one answer that made sense in my thoughts, I gold leafed the backs of the cubbies in order that the pink and gold bridge made sense and flowed higher with the pink and gold doorways and drawer fronts. It simply made sense in my thoughts, and now that I’ve issues within the cubbies, the gold is nothing greater than a refined backdrop.

I do know these appeared like such small selections, however these little particulars actually do make an enormous distinction within the completed product. So I’m glad I spent a while wrestling with them and arising with an answer that I actually do love. I’m so pleased with how these cupboards turned out.

I nonetheless may resolve so as to add somewhat ornamental one thing to the countertop to carry some curiosity and coloration, however proper now, I’m simply having fun with the truth that the cupboards themselves are completed.

With that ceiling gentle hanging down and pointing in direction of the cubbies, it sort of washes out these gadgets up there and floods the cubbies with gentle. However as soon as that gentle is again in place, I would resolve that the cubbies actually do want some tape lights. So I’ll make that call after I’m ending up the shops, and after the ceiling lights are again in place.

I’m simply so excited to have this enormous venture completed! And I like the way it turned out. Already this morning, I’ve gone into the studio a number of instances simply so I may stand and stare on the cupboards for a bit. 😀

Anyway, right here’s what my to-do record appears to be like like as of this morning. I had so as to add a few issues to the record that I had left off, and I moved all the “achieved” gadgets to the underside. However I’m getting them achieved!

• Set up and paint baseboards;
• Set up and paint door casings on two doorways;
• Paint two doorways;
• Paint bases on work tables;
• Paint desk and add two drawers;
• End wiring electrical shops;
• Add lights to cubbies;
• Reupholster desk chair;
• Make pendant gentle;
• Body and dangle panorama design;
• Embellish lengthy, clean wall;
• Clear and touchup paint on ground;
• Paint wall round window;
• Gold leaf backs of cubbies;
• End trim on workplace space cupboards;
• Set up window shade;
• Paint black elements of paint swatch cupboard white;
• End portray the ceiling and partitions;
• End adjusting doorways and drawers;
• Set up drawer pulls and door knobs.