Today I finalized the upper cabinets – ganged them together, tightened their bolts all the way, and put in filler so they meet the wall. There will be some molding between their tops and the ceiling, but it’s one of the last things that’ll happen, so for the moment, I’m done dealing with upper cabinets. I also built the 15″ drawer cabinet, which is tiny and cute, and the blind corner cabinet – this is a beast of an object, 49″ long, and heavy enough that although I’ve put the legs on, I’m waiting for a second person to help me pick it up. The legs have this adorable warning about how you need to actually lift the cabinet off the ground and set it down on the legs, not just roll it to upright. Evidently the legs aren’t meant to deal with sideways forces, so they’ll break if you do it wrong. The warning is adorable just because it’s illustrated – I’m becoming fond of the drawings they use as instructions for assembly. This may be a sign that insanity is approaching.

The first shot is of the filler – I went and used my dad’s table saw to get a really straight cut, because a circular saw isn’t so great at that for a 39-inch-long cut, at least not without some kind of guide or thingy that I don’t have. The table saw worked really well, and then I just screwed through the side of the cabinet to the filler. The join with the wall will also be caulked, so any irregularity there will be covered up.

That one lonely base cabinet is the 15″ drawer cabinet, which is sitting pretty much where it’ll actually end up.

That’s the blind corner cabinet lying on its side, with the legs attached.