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Bob visits with Richard Marks to discuss the built-in-place kitchen cabinets. Richard explains the floorplan and appliance placement.
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" Fourteen by twenty which the good side but not an -- so you've already got a lot of the lower cabinets units built. And what do you make them basically it's similar to what we will make India shelves in the library out of basic plywood Karr faces and our problems. You -- proper faces death and that we just cut. Simple plywood on the back alleges a little one quarter inch backer yeah. What goes here. We're we're looking into different types of stone to give it traditional field she marble might be. More traditional but actually the granite holes or better yet where is the stove ago. We've got a gas cook stove -- we'll go right here a cook top right cooked up NN microwave up above -- event for. It is flat and above that all the way up to to the window life -- you're saying it's amazing that that kind of lines around the whole room -- yet. And then a dishwasher here. And -- the -- put on the 45 degree angle here where you'll have a view out of the window is -- probably not putting the dishwasher directly adjacent to the sick it's close enough I mean you know -- have to run -- the -- this -- cabinet -- Yet OK and what happens in the middle here we're here we're gonna have a double wall oven and an adjacent to it -- bill then. Refrigerator. What are these old doors yeah these are actually some doors that we -- it's the turn of the century sunroom. And now we salvage these about six years ago we've saved them in our warehouse. And we're gonna use these for all the upper cabinets on this side of the room. That I rot or anything just after replacing glad Alyssa looks pretty good yeah here you can see how to prep. Beautiful word in a time when their pain at the look very nice very traditional. The affluent he has -- have made it would cost fortunes. And what's going on corner over here well Bob again theater built in the upper cabinets worth and I I don't. Now what's your approach to building these here it is fueled -- built in place where I guess that is what I'm doing is taking out. Let strip and a blue chalk line already made out yet but take -- nail gun. Make a little knowledge here. Go ahead."

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" And nailed in place. So. What's the backer that you've got -- this -- actually want plywood that's very simple to use it's easier -- front values. All of this law particular act passed out to level up. Mile long so they would look like it's leaning back into the wall here we're still looking at old walls McDonald house plan. And then what's -- what happens in the corner when you have an angle -- they've got us here because we've got that correct which is right here watch this coming up so it will cut about. Indeed we got 45 degree angle coming in the corner here -- to cover it out. Well let's let's just watch you go to we're gonna see -- together."

" OK so we're adding carpenter's glue all the that we all -- threat right even though we're shooting. -- yet. And the face frame is being made up with that wonderful southern yellow -- it's and it's course it's a good thing -- aren't nailing. This is. So I think this camera. Same wood that the when -- things that she wouldn't. Medea salvaged going to wind drive OK now. How stiff is this going to get though and where we're going to have to eliminate what some some braces and behind the in my audience didn't sit him OK in my cabinet this. This spacious people tend to load them up -- all sorts of -- orient and stone stacks of dishes right they'll be real step one more than it. -- Barnett looks pretty simple let's. -- bill and the department here does it right here. Now these windows you're going to require cutting and fitting and a lot -- before they can really be turned cabinet doors -- Bryant -- last. Closes yeah and then this piece is the the trip -- for the top right -- and we'll have a crown because with that yeah. Not tell you can save a lot of like building your own cabinets this way especially if your using salvaged. Windows or doors."

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