Beautiful Blistery Sky drawers, doors, and shelves are drying the Shop Box with the dehumidifier running at 40% humidity keeping the moisture from the rain outside at bay. In fact, the world outside is a blistery sky.

Am I right or am I right. Blistery Sky.

As I was saying while the beautiful blistery sky paint in drying the Work Box, the Planner is working on the pantry floor. First it needs to have the epoxy ground smooth, then the floor quickly sanded with 120 and then 220 grit, vacuumed, washed, and dried, finally it needs five layers of shellac applied.

Allowing two days for the shellac to fully cure the cabinet bases were installed and then secured to themselves. The gap visible on the left side is due to the corrugation of the wall and a mismeasurement. It should have been one inch not two in gap. A trim board was always planned to cover the gap.

One inch mismeasurement was nothing compared to the work needed to remove the ceiling trim. The Planner had originally planned on having a cutout on the top cabinets at the back to offset the trim but in the haste to get the plans to the Doubter he forget. Taking it slow, the trim was removed one nail at a time. It will be reinstalled at the front of the cabinet when completed. Also, the Planner did not account for how the cabinets were to be secured to the walls so hollow wall anchors were used on both the bases and the top cabinets. Especially the top cabinets as can goods weigh a metric crap ton. And I like cooking. There will be canned goods, mason jars, flours, sugars, etc… Boxes contained 10 each and each base and cabinet received four each. Lots of anchors.

Bases and cabinets secured into place. Looking good.

Crap, there are no mounting rails. The Doubter cut the grooves but the Planner and I forgot to install them before bringing the bases and cabinets over. Rails were supposed to be installed after the paint was dry while on the floor in the Work Box making the process ever so much more easier. Happy little rails for happy little shelves. Love Bob Ross.

Next glass panes. Glass panes were cut out by the Doubter as well. He said if I bought a high end glass cutter he’d do the dirty work. Well I bought the cutter and then the Planner and the Doubter cut the glass out together while we were visiting the Doubter for turkey week. Knowing the glass panes were limited, the Doubter packaged them with great care. To install glass panes I decided on push points. The Doubter wanted rails, the Planner wanted inset with tabs, I wanted something that would not be seen from the front nor added any weight. Tabs won: AKA push points.

Installing push points was left to the Planner. He is way more delicate than me. Four doors, six panes, twenty four push points per door. Almost 100 push points and not one snag, not one cracked pane, not one split rail. Have I mentioned how good the Planner is? Good.

Let me tell you about these panes. It was my original plan to use old casement windows the Doubter had when his house windows were replaced last year. These windows were awesome. However, they were too big and cumbersome for pantry doors. Last month when the Doubter was talking over the fence with Cousin C he happened to mention my pantry doors. Guess what? Cousin C had old aluminum trimmed windows we could have. More windows than need which gave us extra in case cutting the glass to size broke sections while learning. Moreover, these windows had been stored outside and had hard water damage, oak leaf stains, and general polished spots. Not knowing how bad they were, the windows were not secured until we visited for turkey week at which I deemed them more than perfect. Cousin C couldn’t understand that I wanted blemished windows. YES. YES YES. Blemishes give my brand new pantry cabinets style, meaning, function. Blemishes hide the finger prints. They are perfect, don’t you think?

Perfect. Perfect color, perfect look, perfect function. Functional furniture. Right off the back, I dropped a can on tomatoes on the counter. Well the counter had their been a counter. Instead it landed on the lip of the second small drawer from the right. The second small drawer from the right now has a white divot. Function furniture. A 1950’s mixer converted to a light by the Planner when he took shop class in 7th grade gifted by the Pontificator to me in October when I showed her the pantry plans. Perfect. Now to find door knobs and a countertop.