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From Washington to Maine: Building A House for the First Time: Updated Kitchen Photos

sjdehner, member

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Recently we finished the face-framing on our kitchen cabinets and built and hung our cabinet doors. Aiming for a rustic appeal we made each door from 1x6 edge-and-center bead.

Shawn & Jamie Dehner

The fixed-pin hinges for each cabinet door are made from stainless steel. Electrolytically polished, they have such a beautiful, eye-catching shine that we installed them flush so the entire leaf could be seen. 

Shawn & Jamie Dehner

While nearly done we still have a bit more work to do in the kitchen. Adding some moulding along the upper cabinets at the ceiling, a bottom piece for the dishwasher and some decorative vertical trim on the "legs" of the sink are in our plans.

Shawn & Jamie Dehner

Our newel post is complete! We chose not add any more moulding to it since it has a simplicity that fits comfortably with the rest of the house. We did borrow the post's pattern for our 1x6 pocket-hole built casings throughout the first and second floors. We find that this adds a modest but solid continuity to the interior trimwork with the newel post taking center stage. 

Shawn & Jamie Dehner

Recently we finished the face-framing on our kitchen cabinets and built and hung our cabinet doors. Aiming for a rustic appeal we made each door from 1x6 edge-and-center bead.

Photo: Shawn & Jamie Dehner

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My wife and I have nearly finished our kitchen. This is an important room for us since we love to cook. After a year of preparing meals on a butcher block counter-top seated on an open substructure, having doors and drawers is a real pleasure.

As a note, we wanted our kitchen to have a traditional look and feel similar to the many old New England farmhouses in our part of the country. To do this we built the entire kitchen out of solid pine and maple - without any plywood or other sort of engineered board - and used traditional hardware, like chrome-plate catches for the cabinet doors and chrome cup pulls for the drawers.

We came up with the design while attending a gardening group (in the dead of winter) at the Davistown Museum in Liberty, Maine. The museum has similar cabinets standing in one of its rooms. So, while the design is ours, the inspiration comes from an old and sturdy Maine building!

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sjdehner writes: thenrie,

We just started a small series on how we went about building our house, including a cost analysis along with some comments on the building process.

Shawn & Jamie
Posted: 8:48 am on March 7th

thenrie writes: Were you able to come in at or under budget ($125K)? Could you comment on your experience with particular expenses, materials costs, contractors/subs, or any other unexpected issues you ran into?
Posted: 9:19 am on February 24th

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