Cabinets, Shelves and Windowseats

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUERHW7JvgJYbKTykLcDWh__U2mVw0mAd2-Hm922ZjPQg5V8fWozCTmrH4SzUUbzIky7EzlujyGs4qcz-q8fm8SZmdgP06gkieE5WjrZZUfzSOcfqoP92bhA1fvq3KwVgiKrawT3pP7s/s1600/window+seat+cozy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUERHW7JvgJYbKTykLcDWh__U2mVw0mAd2-Hm922ZjPQg5V8fWozCTmrH4SzUUbzIky7EzlujyGs4qcz-q8fm8SZmdgP06gkieE5WjrZZUfzSOcfqoP92bhA1fvq3KwVgiKrawT3pP7s/s400/window+seat+cozy.png" style="cursor: move;" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The conversion of the dining room into a dual- or multi-use space entails, in part, the installation of some cabinets for hidden storage, shelves for "books and looks" and a window seat.  The window seat alone serves three functions in my mind.  These are:  1) Storage.  I'm hoping I can get my vacuum cleaner in it so it's one less thing in the closet;  2)  A seat for a dinner guest when the dining table is fully extended; and 3) help soften the dining room look that's normally all hard surfaces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQSyEnwpvMg-V6qx9GFjhUupcQVKUtEGBmdxs5VgOfgq_I0MHXng3k5rLaKJ-18gJ2vOFDlNfCTgklRWiHknyjAsp0EWrZaJw57ojg6zA1JJzu-sH_jtmA346Lb3VBu9T2qhiI3wLzVPc/s1600/window_seat+elle+wonen+via+room+17.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQSyEnwpvMg-V6qx9GFjhUupcQVKUtEGBmdxs5VgOfgq_I0MHXng3k5rLaKJ-18gJ2vOFDlNfCTgklRWiHknyjAsp0EWrZaJw57ojg6zA1JJzu-sH_jtmA346Lb3VBu9T2qhiI3wLzVPc/s400/window_seat+elle+wonen+via+room+17.jpeg" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As much as I would probably never sit in a window seat, I've always loved their allure.  They just look like a place one would want to hang out, relax and read a book.  If I had this view, I might never want to get up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-xItsTkIfPwTl_eTY44Sk0I2VJkjyrW4qeBhn9xwHu5kA1se5Atv-q0lZibHaMjBXt-6HN2YfV2RdO-PjdcYrqnQFBSdu09pHYaz_keOsmqMlpSeKltLuei1MU2aWGLSLf0aj7F0DIRQ/s1600/Picture+10.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-xItsTkIfPwTl_eTY44Sk0I2VJkjyrW4qeBhn9xwHu5kA1se5Atv-q0lZibHaMjBXt-6HN2YfV2RdO-PjdcYrqnQFBSdu09pHYaz_keOsmqMlpSeKltLuei1MU2aWGLSLf0aj7F0DIRQ/s400/Picture+10.png" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If I'm not mistaken, this is the dining room from last season's Sarah's House.  As much as I loved the room on the show, this is the first time I've noticed the drapes hang in front of the window seat.  I like that detail.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tM2PK6YzlphYYQ_QTIrW9rTnAimzJSNQzBXAZOAcap1_0ePdXOZF_P5ENYZD0z6kNA60AKIB7opNitsCXMEmZBrqcsMpNQFXPLe4VyAoUUzXl_1v1co9iRfhCWDpB4rLBBITyLYEiW4/s1600/win+warmington+and+north+via+houzz.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tM2PK6YzlphYYQ_QTIrW9rTnAimzJSNQzBXAZOAcap1_0ePdXOZF_P5ENYZD0z6kNA60AKIB7opNitsCXMEmZBrqcsMpNQFXPLe4VyAoUUzXl_1v1co9iRfhCWDpB4rLBBITyLYEiW4/s400/win+warmington+and+north+via+houzz.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is one big wall of cabinetry but I love the cloud-like cushions on these window seats. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUERHW7JvgJYbKTykLcDWh__U2mVw0mAd2-Hm922ZjPQg5V8fWozCTmrH4SzUUbzIky7EzlujyGs4qcz-q8fm8SZmdgP06gkieE5WjrZZUfzSOcfqoP92bhA1fvq3KwVgiKrawT3pP7s/s1600/window+seat+cozy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUERHW7JvgJYbKTykLcDWh__U2mVw0mAd2-Hm922ZjPQg5V8fWozCTmrH4SzUUbzIky7EzlujyGs4qcz-q8fm8SZmdgP06gkieE5WjrZZUfzSOcfqoP92bhA1fvq3KwVgiKrawT3pP7s/s400/window+seat+cozy.png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Love the fabrics and colors on this window seat.  I'm secretly attracted to the balloon shades too.  They're often very opulent but they don't feel that way in this fabric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzLdbIh4Wtw5eFkeo-uDDD9LL1DbyKD26V24_dv-4LXbZz6TGvYgfgblzc8XeJ0ss0zqEVv9GvBflisIetfHcuVqWrr9C71f2J3h8GBnWm6N43HibgOUBnVpVsuQLjh2cFLh2ZrfmApLI/s1600/Picture+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzLdbIh4Wtw5eFkeo-uDDD9LL1DbyKD26V24_dv-4LXbZz6TGvYgfgblzc8XeJ0ss0zqEVv9GvBflisIetfHcuVqWrr9C71f2J3h8GBnWm6N43HibgOUBnVpVsuQLjh2cFLh2ZrfmApLI/s400/Picture+2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I decided to sit down and sketch out what I'd like to do but the perfectionist in me wanted to see everything in perfect scale.  I don't have any design software so I used Microsoft Excel setting up each of the cells to be a perfect square.  I used each square as an one inch and I just blocked out the space for each element I measured.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtpx3GqxW1RNMMMc-12SmJdbjT0AQwnr8G0ZJvV6ymsZA7b9-NG047y2B6kq_Xv3F5GUadMLSrUzwEwH4qq-7X9UjAnLZg4lNyZsRXTKJHItk_WWkVheAFZfk-rcj62Mchrb_8LWtIzY/s1600/Picture+17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtpx3GqxW1RNMMMc-12SmJdbjT0AQwnr8G0ZJvV6ymsZA7b9-NG047y2B6kq_Xv3F5GUadMLSrUzwEwH4qq-7X9UjAnLZg4lNyZsRXTKJHItk_WWkVheAFZfk-rcj62Mchrb_8LWtIzY/s400/Picture+17.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd like the shelves to be backed with some kind of beadboard but not the traditional and ubiquitous Home Depot kitchen cabinet kind of beadboard.  I think a house the age of mine would have had something handmade and unique.  Maybe just a V groove between boards.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd like the cabinet doors to be inset and very simple so I can use a cabinet latch like this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdv9f68A5tpwjoGntagXltO1GHoIn2hxkwjmZz3z_KXOalF53ns743RCKTnWZErCN_jw2G_KBxgvAjYEdQifbYFTROsqZoxQCLc2CmspQ_riBeGv7ZXVY6w63_FBqDrajlg4yRrfXEz8/s1600/Picture+8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdv9f68A5tpwjoGntagXltO1GHoIn2hxkwjmZz3z_KXOalF53ns743RCKTnWZErCN_jw2G_KBxgvAjYEdQifbYFTROsqZoxQCLc2CmspQ_riBeGv7ZXVY6w63_FBqDrajlg4yRrfXEz8/s320/Picture+8.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had these kind of latches on the circa 1920s kitchen cabinets in my last house.  They were painted a hundred times but they still worked and I loved them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm kind of infatuated with Farrow & Ball's color Arsenic.  I love the name and the color is just too much.  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxqiRV8gVFJBnwyb7sQv6QkFmZ_XeGcEhIncO9yofoe_r5vD3sX1oUgKyGfDbcGajVCyFofdhAd4BITH-cnbiaPgr4v_uk4xOarHxX7ZbxSZwRgeF5XWZzJIy9Asp6ht253hQO_qK-zk/s1600/img_content_1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxqiRV8gVFJBnwyb7sQv6QkFmZ_XeGcEhIncO9yofoe_r5vD3sX1oUgKyGfDbcGajVCyFofdhAd4BITH-cnbiaPgr4v_uk4xOarHxX7ZbxSZwRgeF5XWZzJIy9Asp6ht253hQO_qK-zk/s400/img_content_1.jpeg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd love to paint the back of the shelves in this color but I'm not sure it's a color I pull off.  But that challenges me so I'll give it a try.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeQZGdSWSBWI9IK8odwZEl46ApMldiv9ljeuXznCMurJRZGde3UzSwdIvdIAFxycxY-pkzdC79qI2l2TemWEWVZOS4ZvsAIkmiYwmsegA8_Zuz1bYZLFUsnuuzNBRRXA1UunUUj7GQwQ/s1600/IMG_5208_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeQZGdSWSBWI9IK8odwZEl46ApMldiv9ljeuXznCMurJRZGde3UzSwdIvdIAFxycxY-pkzdC79qI2l2TemWEWVZOS4ZvsAIkmiYwmsegA8_Zuz1bYZLFUsnuuzNBRRXA1UunUUj7GQwQ/s400/IMG_5208_2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just bought their "colour book" and I'm really loving the colors.  They're perfect shades for an old house.  Arsenic is a spot-on match with the paint on this old stool I keep in the kitchen.  I'm already migrating from the reds I was adding to the house last month to the blue and green hues that I love so much.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To get this project in motion, I saved my Excel diagram to a .pdf and emailed it off to my contractor Sam.  A few days later, I noticed that he'd stopped by because something I bought on etsy was sitting on my kitchen table.  It's so nice to have a relationship with a contractor you trust to have a key!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-F4EIpqIAbfLgQza8WRxiAGjMAxocS2QltekhRJg1crE0GEzHHXvwoaUY7cWn3DL3Y3gIsScN0y2bvKA9hH_dFvxmzWZnRqOacg-EV9OApZkDTdB6FHO6td-E2k1ZJfKQOdnVJSYCHk/s1600/Picture+7.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-F4EIpqIAbfLgQza8WRxiAGjMAxocS2QltekhRJg1crE0GEzHHXvwoaUY7cWn3DL3Y3gIsScN0y2bvKA9hH_dFvxmzWZnRqOacg-EV9OApZkDTdB6FHO6td-E2k1ZJfKQOdnVJSYCHk/s400/Picture+7.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sam has a design background so he usually does work on the computer before he starts building.  A few days later, I got this measured elevation back by e-mail with an estimate.  There were a few conversations back and forth about materials and scope of work before we agreed on a price</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The plan is in motion and I'm very excited!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But before he can start, there are a few things that need to be done.  I need to clean out the dining room,  take down the drapes, strip a few of the old hinges I bought to use around the house so they can go on the closet door.  I also notice the rug is going to be too big.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Cabinets, Shelves and Windowseats

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