Browse Forums Kitchen Corner Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 261Mar 21, 2013 9:37 am hey Jodge, I'm back on the the Billy bandwagon, I just love the built in look too much. What do you think I need to buy? I can get skirting to match ours, but how on earth do we make it meet the skirting that is already in place? (without it looking like an add on) and what do I need for the top - all the American hacks talk about crown moulding - do you know if we have that here? Is it the same as our cornice? And if so, can this be stuck on to the top do you think? And what about beading for where the bookcases join - do you think I should stick some on, or just leave that as it is? If I stick it on, do I just get no nails? Will Bunnings cut it to size do you think? Sorry for so many questions. BTW - what are you doing at TAFE? Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43846 Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 262Mar 21, 2013 10:55 am staceyd 1rocky, I love your study nook, its exactly the sort of thing I envision for mine! And I'm having serious pantry envy too! thanks i am also thinking of the glass splashback to tie in with the kitchen Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 263Mar 25, 2013 7:18 pm Hi Jodge, I know it's been a while, but finally started to put 'stuff' in my pantry.. it's not exactly DIY, but it's a pantry! Thought I'd share some pics. Still have a lot of sorting out to do - all tupperware still to be unpacked and stocked, but give a bit of an idea. As you walk in the door Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ around to the right: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and far right wall: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Blog: http://cbcbuild.blogspot.com.au/ Building Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=62155 Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 265Mar 26, 2013 9:07 am Looks great! The vertical dividers make it work. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 266Mar 30, 2013 3:48 pm Hi, I have been looking at putting in some built-in bookshelves into our lounge to replace a pair of free-standing units. Thought of incorporating a tv (don't have a tv at the moment so can pick something to fit in). Had had a few joiners give quotes for built in shelving (floor to ceiling about 2 m wide by 360 mm deep, four doors at bottom and a bit of shelf), nothing special, shelves at top half could be 280 or something. As the whole kitchen for our new house (vinyl wrap finish) was under $10k we thought the bookshelves should be around $3k, first quote was $6k. The people who did our kitchen said vinyl wrap would cost too much, perhaps $5k. We initially chose vinyl wrap for kitchen, as they told us it was less expensive than 2-pack. Now they suggest melamine is the go. Looking around we noticed Freedom selling flatpack 2-pack bookshelves etc. around $700. They look strong and fantastic finish. It seems that we could buy a few of these units and modify them to fit in the space. Buy or make some bases and bulkhead to the ceiling and we would have a neat 2-pack built-in for a fraction of the cost of a bespoke melamine unit. Famous last words, doesn't seem like a difficult job. Would have to cut 2-pack board with care to avoid chipping and scratching. Would also need to source a couple of 2-pack shelves, or something similar. The joiner said ther is no way they can make something for anything like the price you can by a ready made unit for. That makes sense, as they have to design, build and install a one off, but didn't expect that difference. I googled for reworked 2-pack shelving but nothing there. Any thoughts on this? Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 267Mar 30, 2013 3:57 pm Lilac Hi Jodge, I know it's been a while, but finally started to put 'stuff' in my pantry.. it's not exactly DIY, but it's a pantry! Thought I'd share some pics. Still have a lot of sorting out to do - all tupperware still to be unpacked and stocked, but give a bit of an idea. e] Lilac, I think you tidyed up the shelves a little before you took the photos? What have you done with all those Tupperware things that seem to multiply in dark cupboards? Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 268Mar 30, 2013 6:01 pm we are also getting bookshelves in our retreat and at one side getting a low line theatre unit no benchtop on the unit as i will be getting stone then also getting a low line theatre unit no bench top in the family room as well as one book case small the depth of the shelves we are looking at 300mm but it will cover the wall and also be around 4m in length like you we have been quoted upwards of $5500. so went to small time cabinet maker who works out of his home and we have been told by several people he does a fantastic job he is quoting just over $2000 and adding the same type of doors as the kitchen.(satin moose) so i would try a cabinet maker small time and see how that goes check your local paper etc Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 269Mar 30, 2013 7:35 pm Hello folks. How are we all going? It's been a while and I have a few (not-very-much) progress pics. First of all. . . The Laundry. . . We were going to have wall cupboards put in when we built the house, but cost-cutting was the order of the day, and at $550 we thought we'd try living without them for a while. What with all of you young, trendy things going for different colour cupboards for the walls and base, I thought I'd mix it up a bit. I put some white Ikea Lillangen shaving cabinets up in the laundry (only $50 each, bargain). We've been living with the cat food containers stacked on the benchtop for three years, and it's been driving me crazier than I already am. Now the benchtop is clear and gets cleaned a lot more often. Yay! Here they are: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ They're only about 160mm deep, so nothing getting lost at the back of these babies. Just deep enough to store fluffy sheets, fabric conditioner and squirty bottles of stain remover (which I seem to have been collecting. . . you know the feeling. . . "can't find the stain remover at the back of the cabinet, buy some more"). Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 270Mar 30, 2013 7:53 pm Pantry is coming along. . . slowly. I bought most of the stuff I need from Ikea a few weeks ago. Put most of the cabinets together and have stacked them up in the dining room. The base cabinets are on the dining room table. . . have been filling them up with stuff to decide how many extra shelves I need to buy. I was going to have a few vertical dividers (like Grumbles), but found that most of my oven trays etc. fit rather nicely one-per shelf in the 300 cupboards. . . and the shelves are only $5 for two, so I thought I'd splurge. (I put another shelf in the cupboard under the cooktop for the roasting dishes, as they kept falling over when stood on their ends.) So, only one divider! Here are a couple of working shots: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Maybe if I have all my cookbooks near the kitchen, one of us might actually USE them? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I'm very happy with the 300 wide wall cabinets used as base cabinets so far. Only $15 each for the frames. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 271Mar 30, 2013 8:11 pm So, most of the cabinets are together, the design is finished, Ikea shopping list finalised. . . last night it was TIME TO RIP OUT THE SHELVES! YEAH! Before: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ During: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ After: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Only took a couple of hours, didn't cause too much damage. . . a few holes in the walls, but most will be covered up with either tiles or cupboards, so not too worried. Have been toying with the idea of tiling the splashback myself, but think I might get the professionals in here, as I've never attempted tiling before. I'm going to put up some of the many spare 600x300 white tiles we used in the bathrooms, and apparently they're buggers to lay. To Ikea on Monday to pick up the final bits, then need to order the benchtop and start assembling everything. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 272Mar 30, 2013 8:21 pm Oh yes, and for all of you people thinking of cutting up Ikea furniture. . . I had to cut the bottom off the Benno DVD tower to make it the same height as my pantries. . . I used Benno's kickboard as a test-piece (as I knew I wouldn't need it), just ran it through the drop saw (no tape or anything) and the cut was really neat (I don't think that Benno is laminate, I think it may be their "foil" covering). So, marked up Benno's sides, clamped both sides together and straightened them up, and ran them straight through the drop-saw. Very pleased with the result (wasn't too bothered about any chipping, as most of the cut wasn't going to be visible anyway). Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 273Mar 30, 2013 9:00 pm A quick hello to everybody, as it's time to watch Game of Thrones! StaceyD - hope your builder got their $### together! Rocky - Wow! Love the cabinetry! Is the base cabinet a different colour to the wall cabinet, or am I going blind? See! Trendy young things doing their two-tone cupboards. I KNEW I was right! What colour drawer fronts will you be having? Love the study nook too, very good idea to have cupboards on top with doors, then you can stack your stuff however you want, nobody will see. You've probably already said, but are you having a stone bench for the desk? Hey Nina. Yay! Back on the built-in bandwagon! I just love the fact that it's so cheap to do it yourself, and if you do it yourself, it means you're competent enough to rip it out in 10 years time if you want to change the look. Actually, our chippies cut some pieces of skirting to sit over the top of the skirting it met, instead of mitering both pieces. It looks fine, and putty is a wonderful thing when the cuts aren't quite right You can get crown moulding from Bunnings, (they have it at our local store), but from memory I think it's quite expensive, can't remember exactly how much. I shall go over there (on my weekly visit) and check out the price. The stuff they sell over here is made of timber, so I suppose you'd just nail it to the top of your bookshelf (and maybe put a timber support in too). I'm planning on using the Faktum kitchen cabinets for my study. Am definitely going to use some DAR (which is basically rectangular pine sections) to cover the joins. I'm just going to nail them on, fill the holes with putty and paint them. I'm going to use 45mm I think, gives the impression of having a nice thick piece of timber in there. Lilac - wow, how high are your ceilings? Pantry's looking fantastic. . . have you ever thought of having shelves to the ceiling and getting one of those library ladders? Your shelves look very shiny, are they gloss? Love the way they go right to the floor, but you have a kickboard. Much easier to keep out the dust bunnies. Another thing I didn't like about ours, a lot of wasted space, didn't want to store stuff on the floor because of having to pull everything out to vacuum. . . who could be bothered? (Obviously, not me). I agree with Kiwi. . . the vertical dividers are great, a place for everything and everything in its place. Welcome Birder - These custom carpentry things do cost a fortune, don't they. Do you have tools? Are you a little bit handy? Have you had a look at the Ikea offerings? My whole pantry is set to cost me just over $1000. I'm looking at doing a wall of shelves and cupboards in the study for around the same price. It's only melamine though. Actually, I had a couple of pieces of melamine cut at Bunnings a few weeks ago, one piece was almost perfect, but the others were pretty awful. I think the chipboard was a lot better in the first batch, as he used the same saw (I used 2" painter's tape on all cuts). I'd be a little scared to attack something that cost $700 to start with. Hey Rocky, small cabinet maker sounds like the go. Heard something similar from someone local to us. I suppose they don't have the overheads of other bigger companies. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 274Mar 31, 2013 5:30 am Great job!!! Going to be brilliant once finished. A shelf and a hole for everything. Will be so easy to cook cos so easy to find stuff. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 275Mar 31, 2013 7:24 am great job jodge with the small cabinet makers they do not have the larger overheads so prices more reasonable seeing cabinet guy on tuesday to work out best ideas for the areas. went two tone in laundry and kitchen stone benchtops are now on and just waiting for the glass splashback on study pantry and kitchen all the same color harbour blue with the feature wall in meals the same so good to be called young Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ good news since talking to a friend and told me we were both eligible for the seniors card Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and bbq area nearly complete Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 276Mar 31, 2013 3:08 pm Seniors card? How old are you??!!! I thought you were in your thirties, maybe early forties. Younger than me anyway. You write young. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 277Mar 31, 2013 6:59 pm thanks kiwi just turned fifty Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 278Apr 01, 2013 2:40 pm Just read the last page, and there was a lot of talk about too deep pantry shelves and not being able to reach to the back.. why don't you just get some shelves that you can pull/roll out? 600mm depth is great, would be a waste to have anything else, at least for a standard pantry. Might be different with a full walk in pantry, I've never had one of those :p EDIT: Turned out I had read the first page only, not the last! Oh well. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 279Apr 05, 2013 10:16 pm Quote: Welcome Birder - These custom carpentry things do cost a fortune, don't they. Do you have tools? Are you a little bit handy? Have you had a look at the Ikea offerings? My whole pantry is set to cost me just over $1000. I'm looking at doing a wall of shelves and cupboards in the study for around the same price. It's only melamine though. Actually, I had a couple of pieces of melamine cut at Bunnings a few weeks ago, one piece was almost perfect, but the others were pretty awful. I think the chipboard was a lot better in the first batch, as he used the same saw (I used 2" painter's tape on all cuts). I'd be a little scared to attack something that cost $700 to start with. Yes, I can do most things; although, recently got rid of most of my gear due to downsizing and have been getting lazy. Have thought about the Ikea stuff, but as you say it is only melamine. Still collecting quotes, so need to hold off on a decision until we have them all. No response on the 2-pack probably means nobody has tried cutting it, can't be too bad using a fine tooth tungston tip blade. Re: DIY Pantry / Study / Linen / Laundry / ANYTHING Fitout 280Apr 13, 2013 11:52 am All our glasses for the good drinks are in drawers in the small bar area. When we moved in I wanted them packed away ASAP so I used the dividers from the boxes I packed them in so they wouldn’t all clunk together and smash. They are sticky-taped together as you will see in the photos and are overdue to be fixed but unfortunately I am lacking in the ideas department. I am hoping someone has seen it done properly or has a brilliant solution. @1rocky - Don't know what state you're in but I am looking forward to getting my seniors card next March when I hit 60 so I think you have 10 years to wait. Regards, Grumbles Do you really want to accommodate the window? What is on the outside of the window? Do you want to be able to see your towels from outside? 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