32 Kitchen Cupboard

Kitchen Cupboard: 10 October / 15 December 2016

At the end of the deconstruction the Kitchen cupboard joinery did not fit in the storage container and was stored somewhere else; it needed to be done first.

The Kitchen cupboard was painted in several layers.
I temporarily removed the T&G back side and some shelves to give me access to all corners and to be able to paint-strip and sand the T&G properly.
All surfaces to be worked added up to quite some square meters and I had underestimated the amount of work involved.

One glass pane of the sliding doors was broken and is replaced.
Some of the T&G had borer and was replaced as well.
The ball bearings for the sliding doors appeared to be quite an ingenious system but also required effort to get them in working order again.
Some stains on the cupboard shelves are left as reminder of the previous life.

Paint stripping the joinery revealed redundant nail holes, closing mechanisms and hinge positions indicating there had been a life before being used as this cupboard.
I assume that the kitchen cupboards where installed around the time when changes had been made to the house around the 1930's (as part of the Entry Lobby / large font windows alteration)