Recent content by christopher.layton

For my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary, we sent them away on a vacation this past weekend - three days at a classic hotel they'd been wanting to visit. Meanwhile, we tore out their kitchen, fixed electrical, put new floors in, and began to replace their cabinets with custom ones I made. Whew...

A quick, almost midsummer, update. I've been working on cabinetry for a kitchen most of the summer, the install is in a couple weeks, and I'll be able to upload some pictures then. The shop is full: And it's still awaiting a re-build before I invest a ton of time outfitting the interior...

Thanks, And happy mothers day to your family as well! I've looked at the thread several times and was defeated by all those broken image links. Finally sat down and fixed it. Hood River is fun this time of year. We went downtown and picked up a pizza from Double Mountain, it was hopping. It...

For the most part, but definitely not without its shortcomings and frustrations. One of the biggest is that in order work on the van I have to schlep tools around the house to the driveway. Sounds exactly like what we did. The 50's cabinets were in good condition, and so I only built new...

Right now I’m working on a small kitchen. It’s paint grade, so built of poplar and 3/4” MDO with edge banding. The downside of a small shop is that there’s not much room to store half-finished projects, or to layout the kitchen. Installing drawers. I am using pre-finished maple drawer sides...

"Shop Happenings" Not much, actually. The shop is pretty much in the same state as it was when we last saw it. I’m still using it to build projects, still planning to rebuild the shop….. and at this point, I am okay with this lack of forward movement. We have so many projects going at the...

"The Great Bluestar Rebuild / kitchen progress" About nine months ago I picked up my dream range at a price I could afford - with a catch: it was used and filthy dirty. It came with a good quality hood too! It's a Bluestar RNB open burner range. And...it sat in my garage for 9 months. The...

"Van Updates" We’re still loving the van and it continues to be a project. Last summer I ticked a few things off the list Because I’m running bigger tires, the spare won’t fit into the stock spare position under the front of the van, so I had to install a swing-away on the back, and since I...

So Dropbox changed it's rules and apparently I can't host images in the public folder anymore. I have been dragging on uploading and re-attaching the images here. I'll say this, going through these old pictures is encouraging, sometimes it's easy to forget the progress made and dwell only on how...

I’ve been making progress on the kitchen. Nearly all the cabinetry is complete; I have a door left to make and a few adjustments. Thanks to my father-in-law, who spent forty plus years as a drywall finisher, all the drywall is done. It’s simply amazing to watch him work, he makes it look so easy...

Quick update: today I built the cabinet for the fridge. I still have to make doors for it—and about a hundred other things—but at least now the templates can be made for the countertops. The plan is to finish cabinetry, drywall, and painting during Christmas break—counters are supposed to be...

Isn't enough for one man to be a skilled woodworker with an awesome shop? Frank's got that and is an architect too, and a cinematographer ... and is has an infectious humor on-screen and a willingness to share mistakes made along the way. An incredibly talented individual.

Drivesitfar: I sure feel like I am plugging away at my list of projects; as you so rightly observe, life with my little helper slows down the pace a bit—not a bad thing. Jack loves helping out on projects. I just looked back at my thread, and the time has allowed me to rethink my original shop...

Second: the shop. We’re planning on re-structuring the shop this summer, and extending the roof to the east to create a car-port tall enough to park the van under. We’ll keep the cinder-block portions of the shop and rebuild the poorly structured eastern bay. With that in mind, I’ve been...

First: I’ve been working on the Van. As Denwood commented, these things are not for the feint of heart or wallet (although, the fact that they are still appreciating is helpful). I upgraded and replaced the wheels, suspension, brakes, and steering rack components this past summer. I had the...