Dropping Our Drawers

When we announced the arrival of Annabel, there were a few doubters that seemed to think that this meant we wouldn’t be doing any more work on the house.  And the silence here on the blog probably confirmed that impression.  Au contraire, our friends.  Sure, we’ve been hampered by a serious lack of time and a temporary lack of money due to Cherie’s maternity leave.  And there seems to be societal disapproval about operating a table saw with a baby sleeping nearby.  But we are crafty, determined people and we found a way to make progress even with these obstacles, using what little time and materials we had on hand. 

We made drawers.

Lots of drawers.

We made drawers for the silverware.

And drawers for the cooking utensils.

Drawers for the trash (bottom) and the junk (top).

And drawers for the cat (apparently).

They all are made of 1/2” poplar with blind dovetail joinery. If you want to know what that is, you’re going to have to ask Michael.  Just kidding.  Blind dovetails are when the dovetail in a joint doesn’t show on one face, as clearly shown here:

Like all the kitchen cabinets, these will eventually be painted.  All drawers and cabinet drawers will be flushmounted.  The hardware that you see is just temporary. So, for that matter, is the drawer front on the silverware drawer.  We’re still experimenting a bit to see what works.   

This is all part of a newly re-energized kitchen effort.  We realize that we’ve only got another few months until we need to have our kitchen childproofed.  And we think that childproofing generally requires drawers, cabinet doors, and other fancy items meant to contain knives and poisons and whatnot.  (Right?  We’re new to this parenting thing, so let us know if we are on the wrong track.)  So the improvements are moving ahead, one drawer at a time.

And if you don’t think that a few drawers count as a improvement, then you clearly haven’t lived a year-and-a-half without a silverware drawer.