{"id":535,"date":"2019-07-23T23:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2019-07-23T23:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T07:05:27","slug":"shelves-and-more-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/shelves-and-more-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelves and More Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last summer, we were finally able to remodel our kitchen. Truthfully, I had very little to do with it. My wife designed it all and we have a great contractor that’s upgraded most of our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But my job was to make some shelves. We want to have a couple of 6′ long floating shelves that could support a lot of weight. I looked into various ways on how to make them and ended up making a frame with a solid walnut front piece. Then I veneered some panels for the top and bottom. I wanted it to appear thicker (1 1\/2″) but not too chunky either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also made a cabinet on the other side of the fridge that’s also made of walnut and holds a microwave along with some other things. This turned out to be a nightmare for me, but it looks fine as long as you don’t look at it closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was trying to make it fit perfectly and that was my biggest problem. Walls are never straight and things are never perfectly level. I should’ve made it with normal dimensions and angles and used shims to straighten things out when mounting it. But I thought I’d try to match all the different angles perfectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would’ve worked out ok if I could’ve dry fit all of the pieces easily. But I had to assemble some of the parts to conceal the screw holes, and it just got too heavy to keep doing this. So I put together the pieces, hoping I had everything right. And of course, I didn’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made the sides angled to match a crooked wall, so that it would appear straight. The problem was that I assembled them on the wrong sides and I think upside down. So the end result is the angles went the wrong way. I couldn’t really take it apart because I veneered over the screws, so I had to use a ton of big shims to straighten it out. Nobody even looks behind counters, but if you do, there is a huge gap and a wood block to straighten it out. So, it wasn’t my best work and there’s no picture for this one, even if the main problem isn’t visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, we were finally able to remodel our kitchen. Truthfully, I had very little to do with it. My wife designed it all and we have a great contractor that’s upgraded most of our house. But my job was to make some shelves. We want to have a couple of 6′ long floating shelves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-made-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}