Home Reno 3.2

It's been two weeks since I last posted an update on our front entry closet and numerous family members have been pointing that out to me.  Sorry that I have been a bit behind, I have been very busy and, while John did work on it last weekend, the cabinets didn't really change a whole lot, so I thought that I would wait until there was more obvious progress, which happened this weekend! :)

I'll begin with what happened last weekend.  Last Saturday we got up, did some measuring and went to Home Depot to get some supplies for the day (not unlike the two weekends before this...we tend to live at Home Depot while working on projects).  We got all the facing boards and the veneer and hardware for the doors.  When we got back, John got to work getting the facing boards up.  While it may be an obvious difference to most people, the facing and really hidden a lot of the screws and nails and has just made it look more finished overall.  We also decided to get some crown molding for the top of the cabinet, which gives it that "grandeur" feeling.  Here is the outcome of that weekend...

The bottom is on, making it look a lot closer to be complete!  

Crown molding is up.

Facing board on the bottom.  It covered up
a lot of the screws and nails John used to
put the whole thing together.

John also completed one of the doors last weekend, which I veneered, but I did not get a picture of it, mainly because I was tired and forgot.  But it does look pretty nice.  I will be a pro at veneering at the end of this!

This weekend we made more progress.  Friday night while John was at his softball game, I veneered the front of the shelves in the cabinets.  It turned out pretty well.  

My veneering job.

This morning, John got to work on another door and cleaning out the cabinet so that I could stain.  I got to work staining while he was going to finish the doors.  Only thing we had not thought about was how he needed to measure the doors against the opening and how I was staining those openings and making them wet.  John quickly decided that he was going to need to work on the doors later!  Instead he helped get the staining completed.  We had the staining by lunchtime and after supper we put one coat of varathane on, as we decided that we only needed one coat of stain.  They are really starting to take shape now!

Adding some trim to make the bottom look a little bit nicer.

That's it for this weekend.  We're hoping to get another coat of varathane on this week and then John will work on the doors and move onto the coat rod and the shoe rack.  Seems like the work is never done!