Very pretty!

Pretty finish :)

Nice! I had to smile at your second photo. Stay sane.☺

Very nice! Now that they've arrived, do you feel like you'll be making more progress?

Love the doors!

re pic #2 - Remember, this too shall pass ;)

Beachem - I like the color very much. Are those your handles? Neat looking!

Your street reminds me of my Birdrock days! And your cabinets are lovely.

Gray is our second most asked for color. Especially the weathered versions. Ours is called Barnwood. Great choice! White is still the safest and most popular.

What brand are your doors? The look amazing!

Look at the details on your doors! So pretty

Those look very nice!

@oldbat yes those are the pulls. They are leather. I'm trying to decide if I should make longer pulls for the 24" drawer front on the fridge drawers and what width they should be.

@aktillery it's Conestoga.

@mgmum I hope so. We've been living in chaos for a year and a half now. My OCD for order/neatness is getting forcibly cured. You can't see it but on top of the blue covered fridge is a basket of not yet used Ikea parts in tiny boxes with labels.

The rest of the main kitchen cabinets won't arrive until after July 4th. Unfortunately, after the kitchen, I still have the bathroom flood repairs.

Beachem, you found some fabulous doors. The stain looks incredible!

I am checking through the rest of the order and sigh..... Huge mistake. A giant hunk of it. I was juggling my orders while multi tasking things like dealing with my parents' doctors. Most of my orders and checking are done at 1AM-4AM in the morning, waiting room, or a car. Frankly, I've looked at cabinet order details so much that my mind is filling things for me.

Despite checking through my details multiple times, I missed the fact that I didn't order my upper doors as frame only. I had always intended them to be glass doors but now I have giant 40" high pieces of wood.

I'm waiting for my rep to come back from vacation so I can verify if the panels are just set in there so I can cut them out without damaging the frame.

You poor thing. I have cut out the interiors of doors and added glass many different times and was never a problem. I hope that is the case for you!

How did you cut out the center panel and did you have to put a trim piece on the front? My doors can't have any trim in front. I'm hoping to be able to pull out the panel from a center groove.

Beautiful stain. Are you using the same stain for the kitchen cabinets? I remember lots of samples of grey painted doors. And lots of drawers.

@romy I love the stain but it's too dark for the full kitchen. I went with a very light gray (warm tone) for the kitchen mixed with dark stained island and lower.

I still have lots of drawers. 7 drawers in two Ikea cabinets in the family room alone.

Beachem, My husband cut out the center. Given that the piece you want to cut out is simply a thin panel, you could likely just start in the middle of it and work you way out until you get to the solid wood.

No I did not add anything to the cabinet. Well, just the glass.

These doors are solidly built. The panel is a solid .75" of wood.

The entire door looks like a solid block except for a small 1/8" channel for expansion.

I'll have to buy a jigsaw and a Japanese handsaw to cut thru it.

Thought we had about every tool in the garage, but with this being the second reference to a Japanese handsaw this week (thanks, too, J. Corlett aka Treb), I was dying of curiosity:

So cool...I want one. :)

Good luck, beachem. Despite the bumps in the road, it's all coming together! I share your excitement, partly because my cabs are grey washed maple, too...love them, where the finish was done properly. :P

Thanks Javiwa. I remember your grey brown cabinet sneak peek but I don't think you've done a reveal yet. Would love to see it soon.

The Japanese handsaw I'm looking at is very different. It's small and thin. According to the woodworkers, it's the best tool for close precise work. Japanese handsaw are distinguished by their teeth which saw via pull vs push like Western saws.

...a reveal yet. Would love to see it soon.

You and me both! ;) We've hit an impasse with the countertops and are in waiting-to-hear-back mode, here.

What door style are you removing the panel from? You shouldn't have to add trim to the front, the glass will just lay against the back of the frame profile the way the panel is now. The frame has a half inch deep groove that the panel slips into during assembly. For frame only doors, the back thinner piece that holds in the panel is routed out in order to allow glass to be fitted in after the door is already assembled.

Nancy,

It's the gray door style at top. Flat panel. The door is made with a groove in the frame and the panel has an edge that slips into the groove in the frame. The frame is assembled around the panel. From the back, all you see is solid wood with a small channel where the expansion joint is. The panel is 1/2" thick wood.

Thanks for the picture. From what I can see, the front of the frame is deeper so I'll have make my cut matching where the front ends.