Continuing my foray into more refined carpentry skills.  I watched some youtube videos on using a dado set and drawer joinery.  The best mix of strength and ease of use was the lock rabbet.  It is essentially a normal rabbet except there is a small tenon that goes on the front and back of the drawer to add a lot of strength to keep the front from popping off after being slammed 1000 times.

If anyone thought table saws were not scary enough.  Try one with multiple spinning blades of death on them.  It is epic scary.  Hands out of the cutting zone for sure.

This drawer frame is pine scrap from the doors.  The drawer bottom was beadboard scrap from the doors as well.  I used this to try out my cutting and fitting skills before getting into the more expensive materials for the real drawers.  I think they are quite serviceable.

I cut the beadboard and dry fit all the pieces.  With a little fiddling and some sanding everything fits together quite nicely.  Not so good on estimating how much I needed.  I used less than half of a 4×8 foot sheet and I bought two.  Not sure what the heck I was thinking.

The doors look really nice and I am very happy with them.  I got pretty good at them by the 6th one.  So much better that I actually recut some parts for the first door since it was a little off.  I think I would have regretted not fixing it so I spent the extra 20 minutes to redo it and feel much better about doing it.

I might say these are looking pretty plain, but I am happy with the look and how they fit together.  I am going to cut the panels and glue them up soon.

I started making the frames for the cabinet doors tonight and got 3 of 6 done in about 2 hours.  I started to get a lot faster toward the end once I had guides made up for the table saw.

Started off the night by picking up a trailer to get the rest of the stuff from storage tomorrow.  Huge step there and a nice way to save $85 a month.  Finally opened my 40oz of OE 800 HG. That is high gravity folks, malt liquor.  It was delicious.

Then we assembled the sleep number bed we were gifted.  Those things are complete insanity.  It had 5 boxes of foam and bits, air bladders and pumps but we figured it out.  And I have to say it was pretty comfy.

After taking a 5 minute power nap the wife convinced me to do some work so I chiseled out the doors and installed the hardware.

Got a bunch done over the past two days.  Desk top is mounted, doors are painted.  We started cleaning the floor tonight and got like 80% or so done.  We had to move everything to clean the floor so it is all piled up in one corner.  We will move everything out of that corner to clean there eventually.  Tomorrow we are going to start bringing some of the last bit in storage and set up the bed to get an idea of how it fills the space.

There are a few spots on the floor that the simple green didn’t clean.  Those are most likely primer.  Going to have to slather a bit of paint thinner on there and see if I can get that to come off.  Also the previous owners duct taped carpet to the floor by the door.  That adhesive is going to need some persuasion as well.

Really starting to look like a house now.  Can’t wait to start setting stuff up in there.