Hall Bath Vanity

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 11/16/06

This vanity is for the remodel of our hall bath.  It has a single bowl solid surface top on it and is painted burgundy.
 The wood is wormy maple and cheap Lowe's plywood.  It is 33" tall, 20" deep & 46" wide. The legs are 1.5" square tapered at the bottom 4.25". The drawers are  2 @ 8", 2 @5" & 2 @ 4.5" tall and 19" deep. It has a pair of doors and a false drawer in the top middle.  All the drawers and doors are inset flush with the face frame. The drawer fronts are solid wood and the doors are rail & stile with a flat plywood panel. I used full extension ball bearing drawer slides. The knobs are wood and painted.  I was shooting for a Shaker feel to it.

9/10/06

I built the drawer boxes in about 2.5 hours. They are 1/2" Baltic birch sides and 1/4 Baltic birch bottoms.
 I use a drawer lock bit for all the corners and the bottom is in a grove 1/4" up from the bottom edge of the sides. I sanded all pieces before assembling them.
Just some glue and 23 gauge pin nails to hold it till the glue dries.
Next up are the doors.

Installed four of the drawers last night. It is interesting figuring out the depth spacing to get what I want up front. I will do the final tweaking when I get the fronts on.

I worked on the doors twice. The first picture shows the stiles cut a little short. I dropped an inch off my measurements from the tape measure to the paper. Oh well that's way we check before we glue! No hinges yet, need to wait till the glue dries and do a final sanding and fitting first.

9/22/06

I was able to prime and paint (first coat). I am spraying a oil based enamel for extra durability.
This color was wrong so I ended up brushing on a coat of the right color.

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