Is this acceptable?
These drawers were supposed to be the highlight of my pantry. Instead, I'm not thinking I'm going to have to paint them, as I think the stain looks horrible. Am I overreacting?
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6 years agoFull disclosure: I was definitely too laid back with this guy. Our kitchen cabinet maker did a fantastic job of checking EVERY single detail. It was actually exhausting. Some things, I'm like, dude, you just make the call. The one thing we didn't know to ask, we just assumed, was scribing the cabinets, which they didn't do, so I had visible shims along the front of all of my cabinets, forcing me to use shoe, which wasn't in the plan originally. We finally settled on a beautiful shoe that fit the kitchen well, but that was why I didn't use the same guy for built in closets/pantry. I guess that was a huge mistake. We are finishing our basement, excavating our yard, moving, and finishing our bathroom while the built ins were happening, so I stayed much less involved than I did with the kitchen. I didn't realize until the day before install that they never even asked what kind of door fronts we want.
Here's my perspective, though. It's his job to look at that picture and say "it may look similar, but our usual birch choice doesn't stain well, do you want to upgrade?" If this was my kitchen cabinets, I'd be livid. Since he's been doing this for thirty years I thought he'd have a good handle on finishes and such. In hindsight I'd have even been happy with pine stained to match my newly refinished floors. (Which may have to be redone since they damaged them, unfortunately. That's a whole other story.) I did make it clear I love high grains, even telling him how my floor guy sampled twelve different stains before we found the perfect combination that made the grain pop. This guy didn't need to go to all that trouble, but he really could have made sure it had some semblance of the style I made clear I love.
Oh, well, our idea, since the whole interior is this blotched stain, and I worry walnut would look out of place now, is to just paint it white and stencil cute french script on the fronts. That will leave a lot less of the splotchiness visible, and I'll still have some contrast.Here is the real screwup that we have to deal with. Our main goal was to have built in closets. Our cape cod master had a 6 foot closet with a 3 foot door, so we set out to open that up with storage even going into the eaves. Our plan had a 6' closet with double doors, with drawers to the right side under the slanted roof. When the guys showed up, they had two separate 3' cabinets, then the cabinet for the drawers. The installers looked at our room and quickly informed us that there was no way those cabinets were getting in our door. 35"wx30"d could not clear our door. I told them it didn't matter because it is supposed to be one large cabinet anyways (with the drawers separate) when they told me their boss wanted them to tear them down and reassemble in the room. Luckily the drawings backed me up on this, so we are still stuck with a 70" hole in our wall. Thankfully, we had seen lovely doors at a local antique shop that really match the style of our room. My husband is just going to frame it out himself and use these doors as french doors with gate style hinges. Hopefully matching hardware will make it all work. The corner piece is also a sore subject, since the cabinet is not square, its cracked, and the inset door looks very off because of it.
Any ideas on this plan that we might not have thought of? We do realize the left door will hit the ceiling if opened past 90. Our other room is the same way, (and old door also opened that way) so we're not too worried about that.
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6 years agoLove the color idea! Thank you! I may end up going with Tiffany blue. Just gotta find the paint color.
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