Today We Tackled the Drawer

Ever since they put my cabinets in the kitchen, the drawer under the range top has been funky.  I had the twins work on it.  And then Jay, the big boss guy.  It got to the place where it worked, but I had to give it that final nudge to close it. 

All my other doors and drawers have the soft close feature, except this one. 

For the last few months that drawer no longer closes.  It sits about an inch ajar.

I complain to Frank and he ignores me, mostly.  But does that stop me from complaining?  Nope.

Today, I complained LOUDLY.  There may have been threats involved.

Being the dutiful husband, Frank decided it was the day to look at the drawer.  He emptied it and took the whole drawer out.  The way he works is to look at stuff.  Really, just looks at stuff.  He does it with the engine of my car.  He just looks at it, then I take it to the mechanic the next day.

I figured I would end up calling Jay tomorrow.  So Frank looked at my drawer today.

With him, he had a hammer, a large level, a square and a large flashlight.  He made sure several things were level.  He shined the flashlight on several things.  He tried to fit the square into the hole without success, so he was not sure if anything was square. 

He even asked me if I would hold the flashlight on some things so we double timed the tools by combining light on the level.  So we had illuminated several things and found the gas valve was not level with the top of the drawer opening.  Although that mattered not a whit to what was keeping the drawer from opening.

We then extended the drawer slides a million times.  And looked. 

While he was looking.......he saw a piece of wood in one of the drawer slides and not the other one.

Yep, this tiny piece of wood was keeping the drawer from completely closing.




This is the piece compared to a cashew. 








And next to my salt shaker, and on a business card.







And...... we ceremoniously made a fire and burnt it among its brethren sticks of the yard.

OK,  I won't make fun of him for just looking at stuff again....unless of course it is my car, which I will then take to the mechanic.

Saturday is a Very Productive Day!

 We got the walls painted with the primer coat of Kilz.  Since it was bare sheetrock it needed to be primed first before the actual coat goes on.  Now that I had a man with good knees, he got all the high stuff and I got all the trim and baseboards completed. 

I wont be sure which color is going to go on the walls until I get the cabinets done. 

 I took the doors off, not easy to do since it has been on there for 31 years.  My wrist is sore from unscrewing all those tiny but tight screws!

I used Liquid Wood to fill in all the holes where the knobs and toilet paper holder was.  It has all been sanded so I am ready to paint the cabinets tomorrow.



 If you ignore my messy closet, you can see the shelf Frank built in.  It was the door to the laundry chute and lifted UP.  We never used it since it made the laundry sit in a dark place with no circulation of air.  And that is never a good thing!

I had the idea to make the linen cabinet look like a piece of furniture with an open shelf.  I need to go to Habitat For Humanity's ReStore on Tuesday to see if they have a cabinet door that will fit. 

I want to have a glass door on the top area.  I could leave it open, but I would have to be neat.  I could put the old door back up.  Or I could use some embossed wallpaper and make it look like a tin panel inserted in the door. 

In preparation for the trip to ReStore, I put  all the old hardware into baggies with their right amount of screws.  I will donate all the stuff, like that extra door I am no longer using and the curtain rods I won't put back up.

When we were at Lowe's this morning getting the wood for the shelf, I looked at the embossed wallpaper, cabinet hardware and handles and cabinets to see if they would sell just one door. 

Not sure about the door thing, but I am pretty sure I can find SOMETHING at ReStore.  I'll show you what an amazing place it is! 

Right now, i am going out to dinner with friends at the fabulous Thai place we love!